Lunar Fortunes, when your inventory is full? - Guild Wars Guru archive powered by Guild Wars Legacy

Riot Narita

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

11 Feb 2010 at 14:21 - 1

If you use a Lunar Fortune, and it tries to place an item in your inventory... but it can't because your inventory is full... is the Lunar Fortune still consumed?

If it is NOT consumed... then by deliberately filling my inventory... can I reduce the number of Fortunes I have to use, before I get a "Lunar Blessing"?

Because I could easily carry a stack of say, assassin tomes... and then when I enter a zone, move 1 tome from the stack into every inventory slot. Once I've got the Lunar Blessing, I could put all the tomes back into a single stack.

Essence Snow

Unbridled Enthusiasm!

Join Date: Nov 2009

EST

DPR

11 Feb 2010 at 14:42 - 2

If your inventory is full it prevents you from using an item that would add another item to it. Lunar Fotunes however don't do this. "Lunar Fortune prizes fall on the ground where they are assigned to the person that used the fortune"~wiki~So they are consumed reguardless to inventory allotment. At least that's what I get from it.

Archress Shayleigh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2009

Guild Hall

R/

11 Feb 2010 at 14:46 - 3

Tried it, prize fell to the ground. Fyi, easiest is to buy like 50 noob boots from ascalon, or take out hero weps.

Riot Narita

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

11 Feb 2010 at 14:53 - 4

DOH! Oh well.

Thanks Essence and Archress.

Shayne Hawke

Departed from Tyria

Join Date: May 2007

Clan Dethryche [dth]

R/

11 Feb 2010 at 16:10 - 5

Prizes from Lunar Fortunes never enter your inventory in the first place. They always go straight to the ground.

Ralisti

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2010

CST

W/

11 Feb 2010 at 16:21 - 6

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke

Prizes from Lunar Fortunes never enter your inventory in the first place. They always go straight to the ground.

yep. even if its a minipet. rawr.

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

11 Feb 2010 at 17:08 - 7

Also, even if Fortunes didn't drop stuff on the ground, and instead worked like a present, it wouldn't open. GW already has this mechanic in place for several things. Try salvaging something when your inventory is full, or opening a wintersday gift. The game just won't let you.

Captain Bulldozer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2008

Servants of the Dragon Flames [SODF]

11 Feb 2010 at 18:59 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

Also, even if Fortunes didn't drop stuff on the ground, and instead worked like a present, it wouldn't open. GW already has this mechanic in place for several things. Try salvaging something when your inventory is full, or opening a wintersday gift. The game just won't let you.

Its worth noting that certain presents appear to be bugged in that they can be opened with a full inventory, so long as the item generated can actually fit in your inventory. I've personally noticed this with Nick's gifts in pre-searing for example.

In case any of your are getting your hopes up, it doesn't seem to work with armbraces and coffers, although the drop rate on armbraces is so low it could be kinda hard to know for sure

Good hunting.

Riot Narita

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

12 Feb 2010 at 15:58 - 9

Quote:

Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

it wouldn't open. GW already has this mechanic in place for several things. Try salvaging something when your inventory is full, or opening a wintersday gift. The game just won't let you.

I knew that. And that's exactly what I was hoping to abuse: fill inventory, double-click Lunar Fortune... if it tries to give me an item, it fails, Lunar Fortune is not used... and I get to try for the Lunar Blessing effect again - for free.

Anyway, the question has been answered multiple times: my fiendish plan won't work because if the Lunar Fortune generates an item, it drops on the ground, instead of going to inventory.