Tomestone Gear Exchange for mispurchases.

Dunno if this is the place to suggest stuff, but I recently bought the wrong piece of equipment and it makes me wish that there was some sort of gear exchange. Like, to make it balanced, you could only make use of it once per week.

Accidentally buy the wrong thing? That's fine, just exchange it for an item of similar value.

Think there is a one-time only way to get it exchange if you call a GM. Enfasis on the one-time only portion.

The game gives you multiple warnings/checks to make sure that you are buying the correct piece of equipment. The onus is on you to do it correctly.

I'm sure the OP knows s/he should have been more careful. That doesn't change that a feature to exchange to another item of the same tome cost would be nice to have (not "needed", but "nice").

Anyway, while there isn't an option to exchange the gear for something else or back to poetics, you can exchange it for GC if you have no other use for the mispurchased gear.

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Originally Posted by Squintina

That doesn't change that a feature to exchange to another item of the same tome cost would be nice to have (not "needed", but "nice").

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I would add that you only have until you re-zone at the longest, or maybe like 5min, to be able to reverse your purchase.

While it has only happened to me once(bought Fending instead of Maiming back in HW), I can understand that it does happen to others, possibly, more often.

I purchased the wrong item once as well. And it was not a piece of gear, it was one of those items you use to upgrade gear, so obviously there was no warning for that. The game couldn’t have known I may have been musclicking. Yes, obviously we can be more careful, but mistakes happen, and it would be nice to have a feature like this. Luckily when it happened to me it was only poetics. It would have hurt a lot more to waste 500 mendacity.

The thing is though, a player could trade for a piece of gear, use it for some content but then decide to swap it for something else instead. So any kind of exchange is open to being abused, saying that, it's like if you buy something with Gil you can't trade it back, you can only sell for a small fraction of the original cost. Honestly it's more about being sure about your purchase before completing the transaction.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

The game gives you multiple warnings/checks to make sure that you are buying the correct piece of equipment. The onus is on you to do it correctly.

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Spending tomestones on Rowena tokens for weapons comes with no warning to make sure you're purchasing the correct version.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

The thing is though, a player could trade for a piece of gear, use it for some content but then decide to swap it for something else instead. So any kind of exchange is open to being abused, saying that, it's like if you buy something with Gil you can't trade it back, you can only sell for a small fraction of the original cost. Honestly it's more about being sure about your purchase before completing the transaction.

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Which is where they could implement something similar to the "Buy Back" option when selling stuff to NPCs. The items(last 10) will stay there until you change zones, then it's gone forever. If they did that with purchases for Tomestones, then you could end up returning it for the item you actually wanted, without having used it.

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Originally Posted by aesteval

Spending tomestones on Rowena tokens for weapons comes with no warning to make sure you're purchasing the correct version.

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Everything ask you something like "Are your sure your wanna buy _____?" and you press yes or no

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Originally Posted by Myrhn

Everything ask you something like "Are your sure your wanna buy _____?" and you press yes or no

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Not the warning being referred to.

As long as the gear isn't bound to the character, then I see no need to restrict it at all. If it's not bound to you, it's obvious you've never used it, so it could be something you mispurchase and want to return immediately, or could be something you bought months ago, took a break, and came back and want to change jobs.