Live Letter VII - Discussion Thread

[Myranda]

Q11: In regards to retainer sharing, for example, if you have one account with three characters on the same world, will we be sharing 2 retainers between 3 characters or have 6 retainers?

A11: While their inventory will be empty, the retainers will be shared.

Really? Nobody has brought this one up yet?? I really want to know wth they mean by that.

[Fantasia]

Q11: In regards to retainer sharing, for example, if you have one account with three characters on the same world, will we be sharing 2 retainers between 3 characters or have 6 retainers?

A11: While their inventory will be empty, the retainers will be shared.

Really? Nobody has brought this one up yet?? I really want to know wth they mean by that.

They mean that the retainers you create on one character will be owned by all on your service account, but they'll hold individual items for each of you.

Think of it as your retainer being a bank. You can all access it, but you'll have separate "accounts" for every character that uses it.

[ArkhamNative]

Q11: In regards to retainer sharing, for example, if you have one account with three characters on the same world, will we be sharing 2 retainers between 3 characters or have 6 retainers?
A11: While their inventory will be empty, the retainers will be shared.

Really? Nobody has brought this one up yet?? I really want to know wth they mean by that.

Yeah, it doesn't really make sense grammatically. Hopefully they'll clarify the answer soon.

Even "shared retainers, separate inventory", is still unclear. Why force the other 2 accounts to accept the name and appearance of the 1st's choice of retainers if they're completely independent otherwise? Does this limit # of auction house slots per account instead of per character? Does a retainer have limited # of inventory slots that are shared between all 3 accounts? (i.e. if 100 slots and character 1 stores 50 items, characters 2 & 3 see only 50 empty slots?)

[Myranda]

They mean that the retainers you create on one character will be owned by all on your service account, but they'll hold individual items for each of you.

Think of it as your retainer being a bank. You can all access it, but you'll have separate "accounts" for every character that uses it.

Seems Arkham (quoted below) addressed this in the same way I was thinking about it. If the inventory is separate between them anyways, what's the point of sharing the retainer in the first place?

Yeah, it doesn't really make sense grammatically. Hopefully they'll clarify the answer soon.

Even "shared retainers, separate inventory", is still unclear. Why force the other 2 accounts to accept the name and appearance of the 1st's choice of retainers if they're completely independent otherwise? Does this limit # of auction house slots per account instead of per character? Does a retainer have limited # of inventory slots that are shared between all 3 accounts? (i.e. if 100 slots and character 1 stores 50 items, characters 2 & 3 see only 50 empty slots?)

I'm thinking along the same lines as far as limiting how many items we can have up for auction at a time, at least if it's correct to interpret the translation as inventory not being shared. And/or to limit the amount of unique names on retainers? There's got to be some alternate reason...

[Notredamefan23]

Yeah, it doesn't really make sense grammatically. Hopefully they'll clarify the answer soon.

Even "shared retainers, separate inventory", is still unclear. Why force the other 2 accounts to accept the name and appearance of the 1st's choice of retainers if they're completely independent otherwise? Does this limit # of auction house slots per account instead of per character? Does a retainer have limited # of inventory slots that are shared between all 3 accounts? (i.e. if 100 slots and character 1 stores 50 items, characters 2 & 3 see only 50 empty slots?)

that wouldnt be bad if you could see the items on another character u have as you could make multiple mules to use to hold gear