Suggestion to improve Charged Compass bulk trading + New Stash Tab Mockup

Hi,

I have some suggestions for changes that could improve trading around Charged Compasses, including the addition of a new premium stash tab.

The Main Problems
- Right now, compasses are difficult to buy in bulk through the official trade site.
- Compasses do not stack, so often you are buying them one at a time or DM'ing sellers to see if they have multiple of the ones you are looking for
- There is no support on the Bulk Item Exchange for Charged Compasses
- Compasses can have varying amounts of remaining uses, which can increase the likelihood of being scammed or making it more difficult to find ideal compasses.

Changes to compasses
- First, start by separating Charged Compasses into 2 separate items: Awakened Compasses and Elevated Compasses (determined by which type of sextant is used when rolling)

- Remove the atlas notable that grants +1 use for sextant modifiers. This +1 could either be added to the default number when rolling sextants, or removed entirely. This is to simplify the number of uses with regards to trading.

- Awakened/Elevated Compasses can only be traded if they have the maximum remaining number of charges on them for their type. Any compass that is storing a sextant modifier with less than the maximum remaining charges would be essentially soulbound.

- Now, allow Awakened/Elevated Compasses to be stackable based on the modifier they contain, and by the number of remaining charges. Make this maximum stack size 10, 20 or whatever number GGG deems suitable.

- Bulk item exchange should be updated to support searching for Awakened/Elevated Compasses by the specific modifier that is on them.

I believe this should simplify the bulk trading of compasses and makes it easier to distinguish between compasses with regular vs elevated mods. Additionally, this could allow the creation of a new premium stash tab designed to store compasses.

New Premium Stash Tab


This is my suggestion for a new premium stash tab designed to store both Awakened and Elevated Compasses. The tab would contain 2 sub-tabs, one for Awakened Compasses, and one for Elevated Compasses. In each sub-tab, there would be one slot for each unique sextant modifier. The Awakened Compass sub-tab would contain 76 slots, and the Elevated Compass sub-tab would contain 68 slots. Like other premium tabs, each slot would be able to store up to 5,000 of each type of compass.

Note that my mockup is only an example, I am sure GGG UI/UX designers could easily come up with something a much prettier, with stuff like search bars, scroll bars if necessary etc.

In my example, the tab only stores compasses that are still at their maximum number of remaining uses, however it may be preferable to add some additional UI to allow storing soulbound compasses with less remaining uses. I am sure this could be achieved using either more sub-tabs, or in some similar way like the premium gem tab works.

Anyway
Anyway, this is just a concept I thought of. It likely is not perfect, but my hope is that GGG could possibly use this idea as a starting point to help improve the process of bulk trading compasses through the official site. Let me know your thoughts!

Quick bump, interested to hear other's thoughts on this concept

+1

better decision- trade without visiting h/o, like in tarkov and many other games.
I played with minecraft mode which allows to do it in 2014-2016, wtf

or....just allow sextants of the same type and grade to stack within a compass up to a higher number.

Ex: "Your maps contain a mirror of delirium" can be stored into a compass, and any subsequent rolls can be stored in the same compass up to 100 or some arbitrary high number.

Never understood why this isn't how it always worked...

The solution was to completely remove them all along