Keep the long form ones coming, too. You have, I imagine, quite a few viewers who are older and have much longer attention spans and this stuff is great.
42:00 CORRECTION, that rune crafter's kit does not salvage out the rune for you. What it does is salvage out the rune/sigil then salvages it so you 100% get salvage components from the rune or sigil. I found that out after a support ticket. You need to just Blacklion salvage kits or the upgrade extraction tools.
WP, for destroying items that require you to type the name.... shift-click the item, then in chat bot ctrl+a, ctrl+x, then ctrl+v in the destroy prompt, delete the surrounding brackets and you can avoid typing in some really complicated names.
A note about encumbered - you may find youre full up but the items in the encumbered window are consumable. You can actually drag items from your inventory and the encumbered window to swap them around. There might be some niche situations where your bags are full, you can temporarily swap the consumable item, consume it, then collect your old item back. Rather than have to get rid of one of your items, in order to collect the consumable...in order to consume it anyway. Hope that made sense.
My examples bad actually as some cases you can just consume from the encumbered window. But there has been some cases where swapping items between the panel avoids running over to the vendor or deleting things
Another really cool salvaging tool is the Portable Composter which is end progression for the Chef profession. It breaks down meals or food items into more basic components which can be reused.
a proper power wash for cleanig up a clogged up inventory can never be less than an hour i feel. all the details are important. watching this in-detail guide saved me 5 gold already.
This helped a ton. Ive been playing on and off for years and recently came back in a more dedicated manner. My main issue playing any form of MMo is that Im a hoarder, Id rather jump off a cliff then to delete an item I *might* be using ten years down the line. Gw2 is great since it doesnt have the usual, and tedious, equipment treadmill, but its bad when it comes to all the different consumables and currencies that are only half explained. So seeing someone who has gone through all of it before, who can say "I dont care about this and that" helps greatly, since I can look at my own account and go "Oh, I completed this, so I can delete it, it doesnt have any more worth for me." So yes, its a very long video, but also helpful. So many people just skip so many parts and just say "Do this, I done this off screen" or whatever, but you never really get an insight in what exactly the thought process is. Thank you very much for posting this, it gave me great many tricks to use in organising my (Also very) cluttered inventories :)
I have one extra tip: if you put stacks of unidentified gear (blue/green/yellow) into shared inventory slots they will NOT be salvaged when you use Salvage All option. Unidentified gear will also accumulate there no matter which character you play - saving 3 inventory slots on each character. Thanks to this video I learned about option to sort inventory items by their value on Trading Post which is extremely handy for quickly determining whether something is worth selling instead of salvaging. Now I will be able to easily sell more valuable items instead of salvaging everything.
Advice/info for new players: WP's 32 slot bags are the largest in the game and are hugely expensive to craft (120g+ each). They are one of the many LONG TERM goals in GW2 and when starting out 15/18 slot bags are perfectly fine. (I'm a veteran of the game and am still rocking 18/20 slot bags on most of my characters)
Advice #2: Double clicking to place items into your bank. This does NOT work with guild banks and will use the item instead! I found this out the hard way. You will have to manually drag into a guild bank.
advice #3: there are a couple of reward tacks in PvE that give players the chance to earn 32 slot bags. one is by doing the "return to *whaterver title inserted here*" achievement tracks, and the other is following the achievement chain track in the sandswept isles LW season 4 chapter to earn a 32 slot Reinforced Olmakahn bandolier. an upgrade from the standard shop bags for new players.
Best new player guide ever... 1 hour of dragging dropping items from the inventory. If this doesn't highlight some of the silly issues with gw2 I don't know what does. Imagine how much better it would be if the things that are account bound and unlocked just sold to a vendor when selling junk like the backpack straps or the heart items, or the quest or story items.
Doing those HoT meta train all those year ago really forced me to learn inventory wars pretty early on and there were several type of loot bags before its mostly consolidated to unidentified bags nowadays. One thing that help was not clicking on the jumping chests on top of your map or the loot bags till the end of a map meta (or the train itself). Or a downtime while waiting to start, like the meta for Dragon's Stand. As for whether to sell rares or salvage them, I usually compare their price with the ectoplasm in the market. I use one those bags which hide its content from the sale menu on TP or vendor, as well as exempt any of it from being deposit, compress or salvaged. Usually put in those loot bags and mats that my bank is already full of, and sell/salvage them when the price is right.
Your assessment from the start is right on for me. I came back to GW2 after 6 YEARS of absence after having a lvl 30 max character. My Inventory is full and now I also get so many bags and extra items from Birthday presents I straight up quit the game again.
Next video: "Doing your laundry with WoodenPotatoes!" WP is on a streak of videos and streams lately, I love it! More please! EDIT: The most painful moment for me was when WP mouseovered the Luminous Saber, in my opinion one of the coolest Sword skins in the game, he has it Unlocked BUT then he goes on to unlock a depressing Warhorn skin! Damn you WP, you need to take your Fashion Wars more seriously! :D
A tip for players who are returning who have cooking at a high level, you can salvage festival food with the Portable Composter to get nourishment extracts to grow ascended food items!
ArenaNet should add Legendary inventory bags into the game. Still 32-slot as ascended bags, but you can change the type of INDIVIDUAL SLOTS in a Legendary bag. Would help with inventory management a lot and it's another horizontal progression to the game.
I desperately need to do this with my bank! I have too many legendary bits and festival tokens taking up all my space. I would love if they would make a festival wallet section! Also for the food that doesn't give a lot money on the TP I use the Portable Composter on the to get the Nourishments.
One of my friends was so bad with inventory management, I actually begged him to let me remote into his computer to clean it for him-- and he let me. Never thought I'd feel such euphoria from getting those 100 slots full down to like 10.
Especially the start of this video was really useful. Great tips like shift clicking, searching, bit of what to keep what to sell and how to sell. Two thumbs up at least. 👍👍
The Apply Skin items are the bane of my existence. Just unlock it in my wardrobe and give me a transmutation charge so I can decide later what to use it on.
Another Beta Vet. Still (until now, thankfully) kept getting swamped by numerous Crappy dropped items, especially during Meta Missions/Content, nothing aggravated me more than having to pause, wasting valuable time to either "Sell to Vendor" stuff that could net me some welcome Gold, IF I had sorted my Inventory out properly first. So huge thanks for taking the time to show us these tips. +1 indeed.
To add to the search function. You can search 250 and it will show you all the full stacks you have. If like me you have full storage and wait to 250 to sell Items.
Thank you so much for this video! I've been playing since launch and never knew you could get better rarity from an unidentified gear bag. I just straight up salvage them, jeez
"black" is another super useful term to search like "cons" or "boost". It'll bring most of Black Lion Trading post only stuff like Kits, Bank Access, Revive Orbs, etc. that you accumulate through daily logins.
Holy shit, long but worth it . . . I'm prone to stuffing my pack with everything also but then I'm at a lose how to deal with it . . . now, I have a possible solution, so thx. Wished you were more active with content now in GW2 as I've just returned after a long hiatus and GW2 is on steam.
I do that exact thing. I used to play GW2 religiously and quit a few years back. Everytime I try to come back I see my mess of an inventory and bank and the million currencies I dont remember waht they are for, get overwhelmed, and quit.
I ususally just make compost out of the food. Puting the bags at the end of the inventory to make salvaging quicker is something I will start doing from now on.
i just unlocked my food recycler from the cooking mastery track. was a godsend for all the excess food consumables i had stacked in my inventory. now i can convert them all to essences for use in the garden plots of my home instance. gets junk out of my inventory and makes the inventory juggle easier.
@@caerphoto most of the halloween stuff, yes...the composter does a swift job of clearing out excess food stuffs. (but for some reason it doesn't like halloween soul pasties, and most intermediate cooking ingreidents. other than those few outliers, the composter is a blessing for food cluttered inventories.)
If you move the unidentified gear bags to a shared inventory slot temporary they wont get salvaged. This way you can alt click drag a few at time to identify and salvage.
That inventory is nightmare fuel. I have no idea how anyone can play the game with it looking like that. I feel like I open/salvage/deposit/collapse my inventory every 15 minutes.
Welcome to my video game life. There are games I don't play because my inventory/ bank is too overstuffed. I just don't want to waste my time dealing with it. I take my money elsewhere and play a different game. It's not my fault devs did not put a good inventory system in their game. I don't play video games to manage virtual bag space (I really don't know what devs are thinking with that or why its even a thing).
thanks for this video. While watching this video i felt like i was watching an episode of Rick and Morty- Where they are watching those random TV shows - and this one about getting rid of inventory stuff with WoodenPotatoes instead of Marie Kondo.
I think its perfect you made this guide right at the end of Mad King, one of the festivals that really get our bags full. And even first day vet like me learned 1 thing or 2 ;)
Very helpful, thank you for making! I would be interested in a variation of this: which is inv management for new players where the initial inv space is so small. When I first started I didn't even know *how* to even get more inv space. I'm less new now, but still green enough to find such video very helpful.
Regarding the time...a new player would be fighting with a smaller inventory filled with less diverse items. The principle is the same, but in this case the video provides a lot of benefit to more experienced players as well. One question (open to anyone)...rather than sell items like the food, wouldn't you be better breaking that down with the cooking kit? I found cooking ascended food required a lot of resources at several tiers. I realize festival foods don't work, but mango pies and the like do. Even to pile into a guild bank for your chefs.
Efficiency is always on the top of my mind, my wife has inventory like yours just chuck full, disorganized and utterly abhorrent to my OCD. One thing I do, that I would suggest to others, is don't just have a Trash holding character, instead have a specific character for each type of overflow. I have one toon who has all my stacks of Elderwood Planks, another that holds all my Mithril Ingot stacks, another with all my Watchwork Sprocket stacks and so on. I can remember who has what, but if I couldn't I Could jot it down on a sticky tab and try not to lose it. I keep one of my Bank Tabs relatively clean and just shove in there all the stuff I know goes on another toon and then once a week while farming I take those alts to the Guild Hall and they pick up their stacks at the Scribing station, and drop off all their farming loot stacks for other toons.
Ik keep unsalvageable exotics as you can toss them in the Mystic forge and get a sellable/salvageable exotic or better. They do need to be the same type (weapon/armor/trinket) and you need 4 or 3 with mystic forge stone. If you get super lucky it might throw out a precursor though it'a
I think the next stage that usually happens (or happened) for me follows everything in this video, and really starts to become an issue after repeating this process 10-25+ times. You start building up a bunch of exotic or even ascended equipment that you may want to use on alts, especially if they’re stat-selectable. It’s not quite as simple as selling them, and your bank may be too full to hold them. That has always been a massive source of clutter for me, and it happens a lot around festivals or certain patches when new skin sets are available. Recently, because of the legendary armory, a lot of that stuff has been becoming obsolete for me, which has been fantastic. But that’s absolutely not really relevant to the new player experience, unfortunately. In general, I’d really just recommend not holding onto more than about 2 of each type of exotic weapon/armor for future builds, and I tend to either keep those in my bank or even on a character specifically designed to hold this items (that is a luxury, I realize). But I’ve basically realized its not worth it for me to bother holding onto more than about 2 of any given type of item - I just don’t play enough characters or do build craft enough to warrant keeping more. As for handling exotics, which the video kind of didn’t cover super extensively: I will typically see if I need the skin and will unlock it, otherwise I’ll see if they sell for a good amount (50s+ for armor, 1g+ for weapons) to sell directly on the tp. If they don’t sell for that much or they’re account bound, I’ll mystic forge exotic weapons. Any other exotic weapons or armor, I’ll salvage with a master kit. Since I have a Mystic Forge Node, I also often mystic forge rare weapons, but I think I’d suggest new players not bother doing that.
A top-tier salvaging tip: Keep your unidentified gear either in your shared inventory slot or somewhere else where the salvage kit can't get to it, then go through this process: 1. Identify a couple pieces of the lowest gear rarity. 2. Salvage all of that rarity. 3. LEAVE the materials. 4. Identify all of that rarity. 5. Now if you become encumbered from that, just deposit all and the encumberance will go away. 6. Repeat from step 2. This makes the whole process for me go much faster and eliminates the need to even watch and see if you're close to dipping into the unidentified gear. Second tip: There are very few things for everyday players that are actually worthless. Depending on the kind of player you are, the economy and figuring tricks out can open up a whole new world of possibility in the game. For an example, you had lots of luck and you're at the magic find cap. While not something a new player will achieve for a while, your case opens up an interesting new trick. You save your exotic luck for the festival and, presumably know you could refine the lower-tier luck into more exotic luck rather than throwing it out. But something few players realize is that blue luck can be used to promote Lunar New Year backpieces. Depending on how the economy is at various times of the year, this can give some decent gold. This is probably something very few people other than myself can identify with, but there's an aspect to this game of that whole idea of "not wasting any part of the buffalo" where everything has a use that intrigues me and got me much more interested in playing the game after achieving many of my goals. Third tip: Kind of a corallary to the previous one. Try and consider the time of year it is when you're playing. Why were the pumpkin oils, etc. so cheap? Well, it's halloween. Everyone and their dog has inventories flooded with the halloween utilities which give a good magic find buff. The prices were maybe 2-4 times that much in the weeks and months before October. Last tip: This is really more of a compulsion of mine to make sure everyone is as efficient as possible, but for new players (as of this writing) I would generally recommend the following: For blues, use a basic salvage kit or the copper-fed if you have it. For greens, vendor it if you want easy gold or use the runecrafter's kit if you have it (this one might be controversial/wrong so I defer to others if this ends up being my outdated/ignorant view). For yellows use the Master's salvage kit or the mystic salvage kit if you have the stones to make it. If you're a weird/unlucky player with no stones and tons of yellows and have the silver-fed, then it can be used.
This. Copperfed for blues, Runecrafters for greens, Silverfed/mystic for rares and exotics with shit upgrades, black lion for an upgrade worth actually selling (there aren't many).
I'm a hoarder and what clogs up my bags is items I don't want to get rid of cuz I don't know if they will ever be used for something or brought back to be picked up again. And story books completed/incompleted ones, other achievements ones. Not in game atm so can't give more specific examples lol
If I was going to do a new player guide for Inventory Wars I'd just make a new character, no account slots no huge bags or anything, play for a few hours, and then record the process to clear it out like a new player would. Having massive bags and unlimited salvage tools and other stuff most new players won't have doesn't help a ton aside from making them think they need this stuff too right off the bat.
Something that might also make for a good video is going through important options in the game. Things can be kind of overwhelming as they are to newer players I'd wager.
How much gems did it actually cost to buy all the extra bag slots, bank storage spaces and material storage upgrades? If all are maxed then that's $215 extra for all upgrades (and the bag slots are character bound, not acount wide). Unless you used Gold to gems conversion or sales offers. Although perhaps you can bring it in as a write off.
Hey WP, i just wanted to point out that i like your current audio setup. It has a good amount of low end without being overpowering (i noticed this mainly as i was listening in my car). If you're anything like me, which your "i have messed with my audio please let me know if it's good" comments indicate, then you too spend an ungodly amount of hours messing with tiny audio settings that no person would ever notice (that sentence was way too damn long). But you still do it anyway because it's never perfect. Is this the SM7B or RE20? It sounds RE20 to me but it's always hard to tell after editing.
@@WoodenPotatoes Yeah there are slightly more plosives than you'd probably want. But it's not remotely near a bothersome level. Unfortunately there will always be something in your audio that you don't like :(
Hello WoodenPotatoes, I would advise you to edit the parts you talk about salvage kits because of the amount of misinformation you are providing to your viewers. Below I will explain proper usage of kits and point out where you made the mistakes. Starting at 31:25 you talk about usage of Copper-Fed and while I agree that its the same as Basic Salvage Kit you are wrong when it comes to usage of it. This kit should be used for Basic and Fine Rarity (White and Blue) because of the fact that these items doesn't have a rune/sigil inside them and that they cannot drop ectoplasm. Now we reach 35:20 when you start talking about "Rune and Sigil" salvage. Copper-Fed have only 20% chance of salvaging upgrades (sigils/runes) and its the second worst possible choice to pick when it comes to this particular task. 40:05 Silver-Fed is equivalent of Master's Salvage Kit or Mystic Salvage Kit and not Journeyman's Salvage Kit. This kit should be used for Rare (Yellow) and low value Exotic rarity (Orange) due to highest chance of getting the "Rarer Materials" aka Ectoplasm. 41:40 This is the part where the biggest mistake happens. Runecrafter is not EXTRACTING anything from the gear, it has 100% to SALVAGE the upgrade. If that would be the case why would Endless Upgrade Extractor exist? The kit has 100% to salvage the upgrades (runes/sigils that are inside the armor/weapons) the best possible use of this kit is Masterwork rarity (Green). In the long run value of charm and symbols is greater than the cost you take to use this kit compared to Copper-Fed (3c vs 30c). Screenshot from gw2 wiki that shows differences between the kits imgur.com/a/Gb1iCB3 Short salvage guide: Copper-Fed - White/Blue rarity Runecrafter - Green rarity Silverfed - Yellow and low value Orange (Exotics generate 1,15 Ecto per salvage on average)
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Have we finally reached peak content?
This video DOES spark joy! 💁♀️
Worth every view xD
Keep the long form ones coming, too. You have, I imagine, quite a few viewers who are older and have much longer attention spans and this stuff is great.
I've been playing since launch with only a couple years worth of accumulative breaks and I still learned a thing or two.
I believe we have....
New player guide? I'm a beta veteran and I DESPERATELY needed this!
Spot on
Same... Same.... LoL
Lol we do the old new characters stash method all these years
Same here lol
Put unidentified gear in shared inventory temporarily, then there's no need for the stop-start salvaging. Shared inventory doesn't salvage.
Was going to say something along this line. May want to edit in can use invisible bag slots for players that dont have enough shared inventory :)
been doing that for the pass 2 years, best use of shared inventory
I do that as well
I have an invisible bag for this to conserve shared slots as I only have 3
You just changed my life oh my god
42:00 CORRECTION, that rune crafter's kit does not salvage out the rune for you. What it does is salvage out the rune/sigil then salvages it so you 100% get salvage components from the rune or sigil. I found that out after a support ticket. You need to just Blacklion salvage kits or the upgrade extraction tools.
Also the Silver-Fed Kit is equivalent to the Master's Salvage Kit rather than the Journeyman's. It's just a nitpick.
WP, for destroying items that require you to type the name.... shift-click the item, then in chat bot ctrl+a, ctrl+x, then ctrl+v in the destroy prompt, delete the surrounding brackets and you can avoid typing in some really complicated names.
When you level up cooking to 500 you get ascendant salvage kit for foods, put that on you shared slot and you cam salvage all foods you dont need
i completely forgot this was a thing!
Yep, that item is called a Portable Composter. You need tit to grow ascended food ingredients. They're time-gated and go for quite some worth.
A note about encumbered - you may find youre full up but the items in the encumbered window are consumable. You can actually drag items from your inventory and the encumbered window to swap them around. There might be some niche situations where your bags are full, you can temporarily swap the consumable item, consume it, then collect your old item back.
Rather than have to get rid of one of your items, in order to collect the consumable...in order to consume it anyway. Hope that made sense.
My examples bad actually as some cases you can just consume from the encumbered window. But there has been some cases where swapping items between the panel avoids running over to the vendor or deleting things
I didn't know this. Certificate helpful when one of the "encumbered" items is a crafting material you can deposit.
Awesome tip, thank you!
Like i said super niche - but if youre sorting through loot and you have lots of bags that turn into more items, you can ease the pain a little
Another really cool salvaging tool is the Portable Composter which is end progression for the Chef profession. It breaks down meals or food items into more basic components which can be reused.
Achievement Unlocked: Watched the whole thing. I've played since core beta and I learned some things from this.
the filter inventory search, then click and drag an item while simulatenously deleting your search. This was a good move
I'd watch you clearing out all other characters as well, it's quite satisfying watching someone clean their inventory
a proper power wash for cleanig up a clogged up inventory can never be less than an hour i feel. all the details are important. watching this in-detail guide saved me 5 gold already.
This helped a ton. Ive been playing on and off for years and recently came back in a more dedicated manner. My main issue playing any form of MMo is that Im a hoarder, Id rather jump off a cliff then to delete an item I *might* be using ten years down the line. Gw2 is great since it doesnt have the usual, and tedious, equipment treadmill, but its bad when it comes to all the different consumables and currencies that are only half explained. So seeing someone who has gone through all of it before, who can say "I dont care about this and that" helps greatly, since I can look at my own account and go "Oh, I completed this, so I can delete it, it doesnt have any more worth for me."
So yes, its a very long video, but also helpful. So many people just skip so many parts and just say "Do this, I done this off screen" or whatever, but you never really get an insight in what exactly the thought process is. Thank you very much for posting this, it gave me great many tricks to use in organising my (Also very) cluttered inventories :)
I have one extra tip: if you put stacks of unidentified gear (blue/green/yellow) into shared inventory slots they will NOT be salvaged when you use Salvage All option. Unidentified gear will also accumulate there no matter which character you play - saving 3 inventory slots on each character.
Thanks to this video I learned about option to sort inventory items by their value on Trading Post which is extremely handy for quickly determining whether something is worth selling instead of salvaging. Now I will be able to easily sell more valuable items instead of salvaging everything.
dude when you opened the trick or treat bags i lost it, all that work cleaning and you opened the trick or treat bags and went back to full lmao
Advice/info for new players: WP's 32 slot bags are the largest in the game and are hugely expensive to craft (120g+ each). They are one of the many LONG TERM goals in GW2 and when starting out 15/18 slot bags are perfectly fine.
(I'm a veteran of the game and am still rocking 18/20 slot bags on most of my characters)
Advice #2: Double clicking to place items into your bank. This does NOT work with guild banks and will use the item instead! I found this out the hard way. You will have to manually drag into a guild bank.
advice #3: there are a couple of reward tacks in PvE that give players the chance to earn 32 slot bags. one is by doing the "return to *whaterver title inserted here*" achievement tracks, and the other is following the achievement chain track in the sandswept isles LW season 4 chapter to earn a 32 slot Reinforced Olmakahn bandolier. an upgrade from the standard shop bags for new players.
watching your videos for the last 8/9 years,there all good but that one hit chord!"Power washing my Guild wars 2 Inventory".Thank's for the video!
Best new player guide ever... 1 hour of dragging dropping items from the inventory. If this doesn't highlight some of the silly issues with gw2 I don't know what does. Imagine how much better it would be if the things that are account bound and unlocked just sold to a vendor when selling junk like the backpack straps or the heart items, or the quest or story items.
Imagine if items were rarer and worth more instead of abundant and worthless.
@@LegeFles agreed
Doing those HoT meta train all those year ago really forced me to learn inventory wars pretty early on and there were several type of loot bags before its mostly consolidated to unidentified bags nowadays. One thing that help was not clicking on the jumping chests on top of your map or the loot bags till the end of a map meta (or the train itself). Or a downtime while waiting to start, like the meta for Dragon's Stand. As for whether to sell rares or salvage them, I usually compare their price with the ectoplasm in the market.
I use one those bags which hide its content from the sale menu on TP or vendor, as well as exempt any of it from being deposit, compress or salvaged. Usually put in those loot bags and mats that my bank is already full of, and sell/salvage them when the price is right.
Your assessment from the start is right on for me. I came back to GW2 after 6 YEARS of absence after having a lvl 30 max character. My Inventory is full and now I also get so many bags and extra items from Birthday presents I straight up quit the game again.
Next video: "Doing your laundry with WoodenPotatoes!"
WP is on a streak of videos and streams lately, I love it! More please!
EDIT: The most painful moment for me was when WP mouseovered the Luminous Saber, in my opinion one of the coolest Sword skins in the game, he has it Unlocked BUT then he goes on to unlock a depressing Warhorn skin! Damn you WP, you need to take your Fashion Wars more seriously! :D
Veteran player here, thanks for the video! Bunch of stuff learned after almost 8 years. Keep it up WP!
i've been playing since 2013 but watching this was so satisfying
This was great! Can't wait for the "Condi Washing My Guild Wars 2 Inventory", if you know what I mean.
Underrated comment 😂
A tip for players who are returning who have cooking at a high level, you can salvage festival food with the Portable Composter to get nourishment extracts to grow ascended food items!
ArenaNet should add Legendary inventory bags into the game. Still 32-slot as ascended bags, but you can change the type of INDIVIDUAL SLOTS in a Legendary bag. Would help with inventory management a lot and it's another horizontal progression to the game.
I desperately need to do this with my bank! I have too many legendary bits and festival tokens taking up all my space. I would love if they would make a festival wallet section! Also for the food that doesn't give a lot money on the TP I use the Portable Composter on the to get the Nourishments.
Still holding out hope for a New Player's Guide to PvP jargon!
The jargon is not to important, the thing to look out for is the phrase "Fight on Point".
If you see this in chat, you can close the chat.
One of my friends was so bad with inventory management, I actually begged him to let me remote into his computer to clean it for him-- and he let me. Never thought I'd feel such euphoria from getting those 100 slots full down to like 10.
Especially the start of this video was really useful. Great tips like shift clicking, searching, bit of what to keep what to sell and how to sell. Two thumbs up at least. 👍👍
0:45 is exactly why I haven't played in about 3 years. You read my mind!
The Apply Skin items are the bane of my existence. Just unlock it in my wardrobe and give me a transmutation charge so I can decide later what to use it on.
Another Beta Vet. Still (until now, thankfully) kept getting swamped by numerous Crappy dropped items, especially during Meta Missions/Content, nothing aggravated me more than having to pause, wasting valuable time to either "Sell to Vendor" stuff that could net me some welcome Gold, IF I had sorted my Inventory out properly first. So huge thanks for taking the time to show us these tips. +1 indeed.
To add to the search function. You can search 250 and it will show you all the full stacks you have. If like me you have full storage and wait to 250 to sell Items.
This is the content I'm subbed for! I love a good power washing video.
Thank you so much for this video! I've been playing since launch and never knew you could get better rarity from an unidentified gear bag. I just straight up salvage them, jeez
Not a new player, knew all of this. I just like listening to your videos :)
you are a hero, I came back after 3 years and couldn't make heads or tails of my full inventories XD
I learned something from it! Had GW2 since it dropped, got a lot of stuff in my bags.
"black" is another super useful term to search like "cons" or "boost". It'll bring most of Black Lion Trading post only stuff like Kits, Bank Access, Revive Orbs, etc. that you accumulate through daily logins.
We did it guys! We forced WP to clean his inventory!
You should mention the composter for salvaging food
Holy shit, long but worth it . . . I'm prone to stuffing my pack with everything also but then I'm at a lose how to deal with it . . . now, I have a possible solution, so thx. Wished you were more active with content now in GW2 as I've just returned after a long hiatus and GW2 is on steam.
I'm a vet player and only JUST realized, from your video, that you can move the shared inv. to the bottom xD. Thanks!
I wish the preview for salvaging allowed you to remove items from the salvage queue.
Very nice guide, presented very well.
I do that exact thing. I used to play GW2 religiously and quit a few years back. Everytime I try to come back I see my mess of an inventory and bank and the million currencies I dont remember waht they are for, get overwhelmed, and quit.
19:20 I'll move those things I have to type the name of to a keyfarm character that I'm going to delete
I ususally just make compost out of the food. Puting the bags at the end of the inventory to make salvaging quicker is something I will start doing from now on.
i just unlocked my food recycler from the cooking mastery track. was a godsend for all the excess food consumables i had stacked in my inventory. now i can convert them all to essences for use in the garden plots of my home instance. gets junk out of my inventory and makes the inventory juggle easier.
oh god does it work on Halloween stuff? I just remembered I have one which would have helped so much
@@caerphoto most of the halloween stuff, yes...the composter does a swift job of clearing out excess food stuffs. (but for some reason it doesn't like halloween soul pasties, and most intermediate cooking ingreidents. other than those few outliers, the composter is a blessing for food cluttered inventories.)
If you move the unidentified gear bags to a shared inventory slot temporary they wont get salvaged. This way you can alt click drag a few at time to identify and salvage.
That inventory is nightmare fuel. I have no idea how anyone can play the game with it looking like that. I feel like I open/salvage/deposit/collapse my inventory every 15 minutes.
Welcome to my video game life. There are games I don't play because my inventory/ bank is too overstuffed. I just don't want to waste my time dealing with it. I take my money elsewhere and play a different game. It's not my fault devs did not put a good inventory system in their game. I don't play video games to manage virtual bag space (I really don't know what devs are thinking with that or why its even a thing).
ahahah nice one ;)
Awesome … I’ll pass this on for sure!
Speedruning "Inventory Wars 2" - Wow, thats quality content! :) Keep it up WP!
That inventory! Oh lord is this some kind of late halloween scare
Listen, I'm EIGHT YEARS gone and coming back, i feel FLOODED
thanks for this video. While watching this video i felt like i was watching an episode of Rick and Morty- Where they are watching those random TV shows - and this one about getting rid of inventory stuff with WoodenPotatoes instead of Marie Kondo.
I think its perfect you made this guide right at the end of Mad King, one of the festivals that really get our bags full.
And even first day vet like me learned 1 thing or 2 ;)
I finished the video! *proud
Very helpful, thank you for making! I would be interested in a variation of this: which is inv management for new players where the initial inv space is so small. When I first started I didn't even know *how* to even get more inv space. I'm less new now, but still green enough to find such video very helpful.
This causes me physical pain, lol. Ten minutes in and my hands are twitching *salvage all deposit all*
you can save your unid's from the salvage monster by putting it in the shared slots as well; wont salvage items in there
Regarding the time...a new player would be fighting with a smaller inventory filled with less diverse items. The principle is the same, but in this case the video provides a lot of benefit to more experienced players as well.
One question (open to anyone)...rather than sell items like the food, wouldn't you be better breaking that down with the cooking kit? I found cooking ascended food required a lot of resources at several tiers. I realize festival foods don't work, but mango pies and the like do. Even to pile into a guild bank for your chefs.
This was so satisfying to watch 😄 thanks for the inventory tour !
Efficiency is always on the top of my mind, my wife has inventory like yours just chuck full, disorganized and utterly abhorrent to my OCD.
One thing I do, that I would suggest to others, is don't just have a Trash holding character, instead have a specific character for each type of overflow. I have one toon who has all my stacks of Elderwood Planks, another that holds all my Mithril Ingot stacks, another with all my Watchwork Sprocket stacks and so on. I can remember who has what, but if I couldn't I Could jot it down on a sticky tab and try not to lose it. I keep one of my Bank Tabs relatively clean and just shove in there all the stuff I know goes on another toon and then once a week while farming I take those alts to the Guild Hall and they pick up their stacks at the Scribing station, and drop off all their farming loot stacks for other toons.
If you mount up you can actually spam the fireworks and it's kind of worth it then
Did not know you can click writs into tomes, I have been trading those for years
Ik keep unsalvageable exotics as you can toss them in the Mystic forge and get a sellable/salvageable exotic or better. They do need to be the same type (weapon/armor/trinket) and you need 4 or 3 with mystic forge stone.
If you get super lucky it might throw out a precursor though it'a
I think the next stage that usually happens (or happened) for me follows everything in this video, and really starts to become an issue after repeating this process 10-25+ times. You start building up a bunch of exotic or even ascended equipment that you may want to use on alts, especially if they’re stat-selectable. It’s not quite as simple as selling them, and your bank may be too full to hold them. That has always been a massive source of clutter for me, and it happens a lot around festivals or certain patches when new skin sets are available. Recently, because of the legendary armory, a lot of that stuff has been becoming obsolete for me, which has been fantastic. But that’s absolutely not really relevant to the new player experience, unfortunately.
In general, I’d really just recommend not holding onto more than about 2 of each type of exotic weapon/armor for future builds, and I tend to either keep those in my bank or even on a character specifically designed to hold this items (that is a luxury, I realize). But I’ve basically realized its not worth it for me to bother holding onto more than about 2 of any given type of item - I just don’t play enough characters or do build craft enough to warrant keeping more.
As for handling exotics, which the video kind of didn’t cover super extensively: I will typically see if I need the skin and will unlock it, otherwise I’ll see if they sell for a good amount (50s+ for armor, 1g+ for weapons) to sell directly on the tp. If they don’t sell for that much or they’re account bound, I’ll mystic forge exotic weapons. Any other exotic weapons or armor, I’ll salvage with a master kit.
Since I have a Mystic Forge Node, I also often mystic forge rare weapons, but I think I’d suggest new players not bother doing that.
A top-tier salvaging tip: Keep your unidentified gear either in your shared inventory slot or somewhere else where the salvage kit can't get to it, then go through this process: 1. Identify a couple pieces of the lowest gear rarity. 2. Salvage all of that rarity. 3. LEAVE the materials. 4. Identify all of that rarity. 5. Now if you become encumbered from that, just deposit all and the encumberance will go away. 6. Repeat from step 2. This makes the whole process for me go much faster and eliminates the need to even watch and see if you're close to dipping into the unidentified gear.
Second tip: There are very few things for everyday players that are actually worthless. Depending on the kind of player you are, the economy and figuring tricks out can open up a whole new world of possibility in the game. For an example, you had lots of luck and you're at the magic find cap. While not something a new player will achieve for a while, your case opens up an interesting new trick. You save your exotic luck for the festival and, presumably know you could refine the lower-tier luck into more exotic luck rather than throwing it out. But something few players realize is that blue luck can be used to promote Lunar New Year backpieces. Depending on how the economy is at various times of the year, this can give some decent gold. This is probably something very few people other than myself can identify with, but there's an aspect to this game of that whole idea of "not wasting any part of the buffalo" where everything has a use that intrigues me and got me much more interested in playing the game after achieving many of my goals.
Third tip: Kind of a corallary to the previous one. Try and consider the time of year it is when you're playing. Why were the pumpkin oils, etc. so cheap? Well, it's halloween. Everyone and their dog has inventories flooded with the halloween utilities which give a good magic find buff. The prices were maybe 2-4 times that much in the weeks and months before October.
Last tip: This is really more of a compulsion of mine to make sure everyone is as efficient as possible, but for new players (as of this writing) I would generally recommend the following: For blues, use a basic salvage kit or the copper-fed if you have it. For greens, vendor it if you want easy gold or use the runecrafter's kit if you have it (this one might be controversial/wrong so I defer to others if this ends up being my outdated/ignorant view). For yellows use the Master's salvage kit or the mystic salvage kit if you have the stones to make it. If you're a weird/unlucky player with no stones and tons of yellows and have the silver-fed, then it can be used.
This. Copperfed for blues, Runecrafters for greens, Silverfed/mystic for rares and exotics with shit upgrades, black lion for an upgrade worth actually selling (there aren't many).
"Who's watching?" LOL This makes my bank/mules/backpack look reasonable :)
I'm a hoarder and what clogs up my bags is items I don't want to get rid of cuz I don't know if they will ever be used for something or brought back to be picked up again. And story books completed/incompleted ones, other achievements ones. Not in game atm so can't give more specific examples lol
Right now, completing LWS1 will grant you a 20 slot bag per episode
Quick reminder that you've wanted to add at timestamp at 31:00
Edit: another time stamp at 44:28
Some people like pimple-popping videos, we like cleaning-out inventory videos.
That was satisfactory to watch and I learned stuff! Thank you!
Cons!?!! Who knew?? Learned something new again today. /Yay
I literally just destroy bags at this point because of OCD and I just can’t deal with it at this time
salvage blues and greens, sell yellows and pinks, deposit, compact, consume luck. you make it harder than it needs to be.
If I was going to do a new player guide for Inventory Wars I'd just make a new character, no account slots no huge bags or anything, play for a few hours, and then record the process to clear it out like a new player would. Having massive bags and unlimited salvage tools and other stuff most new players won't have doesn't help a ton aside from making them think they need this stuff too right off the bat.
Something that might also make for a good video is going through important options in the game. Things can be kind of overwhelming as they are to newer players I'd wager.
Oh god...i saw the thumbnail and started getting anxiety. im trying to stay away from doing this LOL
Oh. I thought you were doing a "Speed Cleaning" video, like the ones Klavan reacted to. Well, I'm robbed of my joy.
He has finally done it! The nightmare is over!
For a few days until it's a mess again.
Inventory management is reason why it’s hard for me to get back into it.
Honestly, such a good video. Veteran here and this is stuff I've been ignoring for years so thank you! (Curious why you banked your wardrobe unlocks).
27:46 Don't delete, consume. 😉
lol watched from start to finish =D
Ironically I cleaned up my bank today as well (after 8 years). Now I don't need to buy another slot. \o/
It trigger's me so much o see that bag with random things everywhere
WP got 700 inventory slots and 50% are filled with grey drops :P
idk how you can bear to let it get that bad 🤣. Would stress me out. I’m always clearing inventory as I go, while auto-running or something.
How much gems did it actually cost to buy all the extra bag slots, bank storage spaces and material storage upgrades? If all are maxed then that's $215 extra for all upgrades (and the bag slots are character bound, not acount wide). Unless you used Gold to gems conversion or sales offers.
Although perhaps you can bring it in as a write off.
That thumbnail gave me instant anxiety.
@48:54 : who is still watching this... Well many who started to watch this video I think ^_^
Yeah I'm terrible at inventory management. I still have items from the living world: scarlet war events.
....bro
Hey WP, i just wanted to point out that i like your current audio setup. It has a good amount of low end without being overpowering (i noticed this mainly as i was listening in my car). If you're anything like me, which your "i have messed with my audio please let me know if it's good" comments indicate, then you too spend an ungodly amount of hours messing with tiny audio settings that no person would ever notice (that sentence was way too damn long). But you still do it anyway because it's never perfect. Is this the SM7B or RE20? It sounds RE20 to me but it's always hard to tell after editing.
Thanks so much! There is a bit too much plosive noise on this but I'm alright with it, thanks for the feedback! It's a shure today actually :D
@@WoodenPotatoes Yeah there are slightly more plosives than you'd probably want. But it's not remotely near a bothersome level. Unfortunately there will always be something in your audio that you don't like :(
Guild Wars 2: Hoarders Edition
Great swords are worth so much because of precursor gambling
Hello WoodenPotatoes, I would advise you to edit the parts you talk about salvage kits because of the amount of misinformation you are providing to your viewers. Below I will explain proper usage of kits and point out where you made the mistakes.
Starting at 31:25 you talk about usage of Copper-Fed and while I agree that its the same as Basic Salvage Kit you are wrong when it comes to usage of it. This kit should be used for Basic and Fine Rarity (White and Blue) because of the fact that these items doesn't have a rune/sigil inside them and that they cannot drop ectoplasm.
Now we reach 35:20 when you start talking about "Rune and Sigil" salvage. Copper-Fed have only 20% chance of salvaging upgrades (sigils/runes) and its the second worst possible choice to pick when it comes to this particular task.
40:05 Silver-Fed is equivalent of Master's Salvage Kit or Mystic Salvage Kit and not Journeyman's Salvage Kit. This kit should be used for Rare (Yellow) and low value Exotic rarity (Orange) due to highest chance of getting the "Rarer Materials" aka Ectoplasm.
41:40 This is the part where the biggest mistake happens. Runecrafter is not EXTRACTING anything from the gear, it has 100% to SALVAGE the upgrade. If that would be the case why would Endless Upgrade Extractor exist? The kit has 100% to salvage the upgrades (runes/sigils that are inside the armor/weapons) the best possible use of this kit is Masterwork rarity (Green). In the long run value of charm and symbols is greater than the cost you take to use this kit compared to Copper-Fed (3c vs 30c).
Screenshot from gw2 wiki that shows differences between the kits imgur.com/a/Gb1iCB3
Short salvage guide:
Copper-Fed - White/Blue rarity
Runecrafter - Green rarity
Silverfed - Yellow and low value Orange (Exotics generate 1,15 Ecto per salvage on average)
this should be the top comment
@@ShinymetaGW2 Agree'd