holy mother of god... 150k gold? yesterday i sold a Lunar trophy for 4 gold i was over the moon thiking i could finally affford to move out the hood. some excellent tips here tho man you a hero
2:55 A free version of this is using the PVP lobby. Doesn't have everything, but it's a neat free teleport that you can use to restock basic stuff and teleport back to where you were or take the portal to Lion's Arch.
Its important to say the Thousand Seas Pavillion has one major benefit: Because you can teleport to fishing spots across Tyria, you can essentially fast travel to (almost) every map for free. I wish I could somehow count how much gold I saved by not waypointing across the map all the time, but im sure its somewhere in the dozens by now.
I'm returning to the game after, like, a decade or something. I asked myself this question when Abree mentioned the ability to fast travel to fishing spots. The video only shows a few (4 @ 05:13) spots. 2 of which are in the Human area. Can you really go - even almost - anywhere?
@@thedubixcube Well, just for you, I shall see how many maps you can go to. 1. Tyria 1.1 Kryta 1.1.1 Queensdale 1.1.2 Kessex Hills 1.1.3 Blootide Coast 1.1.4 Southsun Cove 1.2 Ascalon 1.2.1 Plains of Ashford 1.2.2 Diessa Plateau 1.2.3 Fields of Ruin 1.2.4 Iron Marches 1.3 Maguuma Jungle 1.3.1 Caledon Forest 1.3.2 Province Metrica 1.3.3 Mount Maelstrom 1.3.4 Sparkfly Fen 1.4 Shiverpeaks 1.4.1 Timberline Falls 1.4.2 Lornar's Pass 1.4.3 Frostgorge Sound 1.4.4 Thunderhead Peaks 1.5 Orr 1.5.1 Straits of Devastation 1.5.2 Malchors Leap 1.5.3 Cursed Shore 1.5.4 Siren's Landing 1.6 Ring of Fire 1.6.1 Ember Bay 1.6.2 Draconis Mons 2. Elona 2.1 Elon Riverlands 2.2 Domain of Vaabi 2.3 Domain of Istan 2.4 Sandswept Isles 3. Cantha 3.1 Dragons End 3.2 Echovald Wilds 3.3 Province of Seitung 3.4 City of New Kaineng 4. Return to previous map So, as you can see, there are quite the selections available. Not all Maps, sure, but most are on there (with the exception of HoT maps).
@@zaekeon Should be possible (this is actually one of the few passes I don’t yet own), but take note that, unlike with some other passes, this one does not allow you to return to your previous map (according to the wiki).
I think it's very important to mention Obsidian sanctum whenever passes come up. It has bank, trading and basic merchant access, can be activated anywhere and returns you to where you've been. And it's free!
On the infinite gathering tools. Some of them come with really good glyphs like the volatile magic ones. Also glyphs of industry and reaping are a couple of interesting ones. And some of these come on infinite gathering tools. Considering the gold price on the tp for some of these glyphs, you might as well take that infinite gathering tool and be done with it. However, there's another reason to get some gathering tools, particularly for mining and harvesting. The fused molten sickle is a harvesting tool that only takes half the time for the animation to be done. In other words you can harvest twice as quickly. Add the glyph of reaping to that and it's a real QoL upgrade. Think of places like Bitterfrost Frontier. Also for mining there are the Skyscale Hatchling Mining Tool and the Spirit of Bear Mining Tool. What they do is for rich mining nodes. Instead of having to mine 3 times they can do rich mining nodes in 2. And as extra bonus the Skyscale one comes with a glyph of alchemy (which is handy if you need orichalcum for example, since mithril nodes are available in much higher quantities). And the Spirit of Bear one comes with a glyph of Industry, which makes gathering 50% faster. Oh and as I side note the glyph of reaping I mentioned comes with the Skyscale Hatchling Harvesting Tool. Then there is the point that you can reskin unlimited gathering tools in the wardrobe section. So if you have one fused molten sickle is a harvesting tool, you can apply that skin to a cheaper unlimited harvesting tool on another character and it will have the same benefit of being twice as fast. Also, for example, when you have one Spirit of Bear Mining Tool, you can apply that skin on another character with a different/cheaper mining tool and have the same benefit of only needing 2 mining actions instead of 3. Lastly, glyphs that you get from those unlimited gathering tools are account bound, so you can take them out and put them in other gathering tools and on other characters' gathering tools. The animations will still be the same but the result from the glyph will be whatever glyph you put in.
NIce info, ty for sharing. I would add that the choya mining tool also takes 2 tries to mine rich nodes and the choya harvesting tool also has a faster animation than normal.
I'm very jealous of the people that somehow find fire elemental engaging after almost 10 years of doing. I don't understand how there's still so many people doing it, but I wish I had simple pleasures such as that.
@@abree107 Honestly? Sometimes you just need to turn your brain off for a bit and chat with other players. Core world boss trains are excellent for that. I rarely do them anymore, but it's a chill and nostalgic time when I do.
@@SheenaMalfoy Fair enough. I usually just get told to "kys" whenever I try to chill and talk to other players because I place buy orders instead of instabuy. Real thing I've really been told twice by 2 different people. Now I just stream super scuffed halo MCC achievements in discord when I need people to chill with.
Just use your infinite use tools in your shared inventory slots, just put oricalchum tools on each of your characters then when you want to change you dont have to go to hero panel to swap everytime, effectively just auto swapping from shared slots.
I love this, for me the way I solved the inventory issue on my 2 mains was maxing out bag slots but, using the 20slot bags that do specific things. Like equipment, material, ect ect. I have a few invisible bags for things I want to use like different gear or food. It really helps. I've noticed not a lot of people take advantage of that and I'm not exactly sure why
9:17 OCD gamer appreciates it lol As far as the infinite gathering tools go, just put them in shared slots and have all your characters filled with basic tools so you can just double click the shared slots to swap them in and right before you log out or switch characters double click them again to swap them back into the shared slots. ofc that's purely if you have extra shared slots which maybe not the best use for them but works for me.
Quite a few people do that, yeah. I actually use most of my statuettes on tools, so I actually have 3 sets now, but really the more important thing is to figure out what nodes are worth farming and which ones are just a waste of time to stop for. That number will be different for everyone, but nobody needs to stop for a node that gives 3c mats.
Someone in my guild has 80 characters and does this with 72 of them at the Itzel Flax Farm with the glyph of bounty. That's a hefty chunk of gold from that
@@abree107 I'd agree with working out the value of nodes in general, but it's worth considering that if you have, say, Glyph of the Watchknight in your tool, that's an automatic 1s60 to 2s50 profit every 3 swings, possibly making the stop worth it in crowded areas like gardens.
@@abree107 I've been looking for info about which nodes are worth stopping for (presumably very few), but i haven't found a list or anything. Is there something like that or will I be doing the math myself?
@@ellie_is_okay The [Fast] farming site might have something like that. The "worth stopping to farm" line is going to be different for everyone though. I'd look for a node that gives at least 1s in value and then I'd make sure I'm using one of the best glyphs. The [Fast] site definitely has a page for glyphs, but volatile magic and watchknight are the most valuable last I knew.
Good list! I'd add that the lounge passes are not quite as useful as they seem, though, since you can teleport to and from the PvP lounge on any character in order to get access to merchant, bank and trading post. Combine that with the Icebrood Saga teleport to Eye of the North (when EotN is upgraded) and you have the same functionality as the pass for a much smaller investment. I'd agree that Copper and Runecrafter salvage-o-matic are a must-buy for QoL, it's so handy while chain running metas to just take a minute to salvage all my blues and greens on the spot rather than find a merchant to buy a dozen slots of savage kits.
The advantages of passes are having many more features like crafting workbenches, the forge etc. and also being significantly faster to use than the PvP lobby. There's many players that tend to use Eye of the North or the PvP lobby and it's fine, but I've found that most of the players doing that don't take advantage of daily crafting and such. As far as I'm concerned, passes are probably one of the best values when it comes to stuff that's quality-of-life oriented, after the salvage kits. I'd have several additional teleports that I'd have to do on a daily basis just for crafting and buying fractal keys if I used the PvP lobby.
@@abree107 That's fair enough! I've gotten myself into the habit of using Arborstone for my daily crafting, since I need to be there for Cantha strikes anyway, but I can't deny that having all that in one place would be a good QoL change.
Your content is so damn good, however I can't understand how you don't have all the nice to haves already, considering you are rich AF (God I wish I had a 100th of your balance, considering the anniversary sale is coming up)
I'm cheap. Also I never found a use for TP to friends and you'll never find me at a central tyria or HoT meta. I do have 3 sets of tools, but only 1 was bought with gems and VM was worth over double what it is now, so I did actually make my gold back on them. I do have a full home instance, primarily for other players and I did finish it because I didn't have any other legendaries I wanted. I don't play very many builds so templates are absolutely worthless to me. All of the gems I have are reserved for character slots. I'm waiting for a 35-40% off sale and that's probably the last upgrade I'll ever want to buy.
@@maxzett I'd like to have more storage space on my account. I don't really need it at the moment, but if I got heavy into gold-making again, I'd want more. If you utilize the space appropriately, you can pay off character slots in 6-12 months of use. If you're buying character slots at 35-40% off and filling them fractal boxes that are super cheap, it makes it even easier to get those slots to pay for themselves. Obviously, there's some research work and gold behind filling the slots with appropriate things, but one decent return on a festival item, seasonally fluctuating item, or update related item will pay for them.
@@abree107 if u ever wanna get back into gold making and are tired of having an easy start by having a huge capital, I happily provide my acc details :D Obviously Im only interested in providing you a challenging experience and my own incompetence in making any gold has nothing to do with that at all 🥸
The black lion exclusive skins will end up in the statuette vendor after 2 to 3 months so if you really want a skin and you burned through enough chests to get 60 statuettes just wait a bit before gambling more.
Tbh I really wish gem sale, key sale, and double statuettes happened at the same time because I have 232 statuettes specifically to get some of the exclusive skins. I bought 60 keys JUST to get 120 statuettes with the current double statuettes.
All my gems so far went to LS episodes and the copper salvage-o-matic. No regrets. My next will probably be an extra shared bag spot, or a new char slot.
I dunno about the lounge keys, if you wanna save yourself 1k gems just use the obsidian sanctum instead just hit the battlegrounds tab and click enter obsidian sanctum and when you want to leave and get back to where you were just hit the tab again and press leave the sanctum or something like that, i know i doesn't have access to the forge but i has access to pretty much everything else you'd need 😊
Awesome video, after all these years of playing GW2, i had no clue about lounges , i had seen them on twitch, but didn't realise you needed to buy a passkey
Best item to purchase is the "Path of Fire Preparation Pack", normally 3,500 gems, but goes on sale for between 2,800 to 2450 gems, that is using 20%, 25% or 30% off sales. It contains 1 Character slot (800 gems), 1 Instant Level 80 Ticket (2,000 gems), 2 Bag Slots (800 gems), 10 Black Lion Chest Keys (1,250 gems), and 1 Unbreakable Gathering Tools Container, which has all three unbreakable gathering tools (2,400 gems). That is a total value of 7,250 gems for as low as 2,450 gems when on sale for 30% off. Even at the regular price of 3,500 gems, the POF Pack is still a great deal. I have bought five of these packs since they first came out. They have the EoD Prep Pack for 3,000 gems, but it doesn't contain unbreakable tools. It has a has a Build and Equipment Template.
@@federaly Well depends of what you need... for exemple the instant level 80 ticket may cost 2000 gems in theory but in practice it's totally worthless...
Good info all-around, even nicely mentioning that some are indeed personal preference and all that. Personally got lucky one with some earned key and got perm-extractor, which is helpful when needing to swap upgrades. (only have two legendaries; amulet from "Return-chain" and pistol due to wanting upgrade its pre.)
A recharging version of the consumable convenience items would be nice. I don't usually need a revive orb, bank access, or trading post more than once an hour.
also Abree did not mention SKINS for mounts, gliders, ships or even fish stick, these items are pure purpose of suporting game, actually skins sell so much, that it once save Arenanet from going bankrupcy, so if you want, buy these, but you dont need go crazy about them
if you want buy lounge, the ONLY three have return to your previous location, Armistice bastion, Mistlock and Thousands sea pavilon, sometimes these come for sale 20-30% off, in that case, you should buy any of these immiedely, as adition, buy shared inventory slot and put these in
i bought a bundle of transmutatio ncharges on sale for 480 gems as my first ever purchase with a proper change kit to get a different hair/face/eye color sfor my main XD when i started playing a few weeks ago, and while i don't rlly regret getting those transmutations much , i realise now i could have gotten a whole bank tab for those gems, and its also a lil sad that my "main" scrapper is now my 2main as im rlly..rlly enjoying mesmer mirage XD guess we all have to fall for something at least once is what im trying to say, so don't be discouraged if you got something from the noob trap/bad tier just know not to make the same mistake again
Yep, that's how they get you. Honestly, it's probably just how the game worked when they made the first infinite-use tools and then they figured it didn't need to be changed. Some people use their shared inventory slots to store them and then swap with normal tools every time they swap characters. It's a decent little work-around.
i would def get the snowflake gobbler its really useful for getting gifts of battle if youre into crafting legys but more than that its helpful when leveling up masteries
I know this is late, but you can get Lion's Pride with Living World Season 1 instead of a Lounge Passkey. Considering you also get 7x 20 slot bags with Living World S1, I think overall it's a better value.
If you get the deluxe edition of pof you already have a lounge also handy way to get into pof for hero points without having to do the introduction story
Imagine paying for items in a video game you already have pay for. Holy wow. Has microtransactions become so normalized that this is good in your eyes?
The fact that you're able to access premium cosmetics without spending real money? The alternative is just never being able to access them without paying, which is how most games work. Games require money to continue development and the options are to churn out new games and abandon the old one, charge membership fees, or have a cash shop. Between the 3, I'll take the last option, especially when you don't get any ridiculous advantage from the cash shop and everything is able to be purchased with in-game gold. If you're one of the lucky people that's wealthy enough to not sweat dropping $30-60 on games every couple weeks, then that's good for you. Not everyone is that fortunate and some people prefer games that offer a better time:money ratio. That's why it's good in my opinion. Guild Wars 2 gives you options and doesn't force you into paying a lot to play.
Still don't really see the use of a Lounge over just popping into the Guild Hall. We have most of that in the guild hall except for the Black Lion stuff, which I use almost never. So, 85% of a Lounge, but 100% free.
There's several free alternatives nowadays. It just depends on what you like doing. If you're huge into fractals for example, mistlock is a huge quality of life upgrade.
There is an infinite hairstyle contract. I don't believe I said anything about contracts in this video, since they aren't gemstore items, but I may have mentioned them in passing and forgot. It's quite an expensive item, usually hovering between 2-3k gold on the trading post. Once you bind it to your account, you can redo your hair as much as you want on all of your characters and I believe there's certain colors/styles you can access that aren't available on character creation? I'm no fashion wars expert, but I believe that's the case.
@@abree107 thank you very much for that answer. I didnt know that something like that exist. But yea thats a bit expensive tbh. And you didnt talk specific about that you scratched it, and that made me curious :)
Also mistlock is one of the only ones with a teleport back button so Its way more convenient then most lounges in a sense that you can save cost with way points if you need to sell stuff from meta's etc
Spirit shards are one of the most valuable account-bound currencies in the game. At their lowest, they've still always been worth at least around 30 silver each. Usually, a range of 50-55 silver is readily achievable, with more being very possible. GW2Efficiency.com has a page for spirit shard values, but that assumes you sell the product you make with them on the trading post. If you use spirit shards for material promotions and then use the materials you promote for your own crafting purposes, you'll actually gain a lot more gold value than the page says. You get a spirit shard every time you fill your experience bar after achieving level 80 and filling your available mastery xp bars out. 254k experience grants 1 shard. The candy corn gobbler is a fairly cheap, renewable experience booster. Experience boosters give 50% bonus xp from all sources with the ability to get killstreak boosts that stack up to a total of 100% bonus experience from kills. They're the single biggest buff you can get to experience gains in open-world PvE. Access to that booster permanently for cheap means you can get more experience, which means more spirit shards, which means more gold. It can also give you karma and magic find booster effects (the output is random), but primarily the value comes from getting the experience booster.
The second slot is a guaranteed drop that rotates, just like the rest of the contents of the chest. Usually it's an item worth 1g each or less. On occasion it's a second statuette, and I almost always choose to use my keys when that happens. Statuettes can be used to buy exclusive skins from previous chest rotations, as well as infinite gathering tools and some other items. That arguably makes them the most valuable 2nd slot drop.
A quick exception to the 2-week pass rule, is that the lava lounge comes with a season 3 episode attached. This is cheaper than buying the episode right out, and if I recall correctly, it will also cheapen the price of the whole lws3 bundle. EDIT: it can also be bought for 4 black lion statuettes, but this method will NOT unlock the episode. Edit again: Nevermind, the bundle is, as of some date, not cheaper than just the episode.
Why is it that on steam deck I cant buy anything from the gem store, I just get a infinite load screen. This also happens in every game that has a cash shop. Does anyone know a solution?
Every character on my account has been level 80 since before EoD launch. I don't need the shared inventory slot and I'd be deleting all the free crap that comes from using the boost, so there's just no point in using it. If I end up buying more character slots in the future, it'll go to the first character created. At the end of the day, it's only worth a small number of spirit shards to me and I don't really need those.
Yeah, the candy corn gobbler is best stacked while you're waiting on other things. Having it available to click before meta events start and things like that can minimize the amount of extra time you have to spend on it.
Unfortunately not. I've thought about eventually doing it though. It's something that's a bit individual as everyone has different preferences. The general method I follow would be: - Deposit Materials - If your material storage is full of something, refine the stack if you can. If not, pull it out and put it in your bank or list it for sale if you don't need it in the future. - Sell junk items and vendor anything else appropriate (like green medallions that are 1s10c) - Open and salvage unidentified gear (refer to the video for how to do that if you don't know already). You could also wait until you have full stacks of gear and place those in your bank and do them in batches of say 10 stacks at a time if you want. Repeat the first 2 steps after processing the gear. - You might have some random bits left in your inventory. A lot of them can be destroyed, like Encoded Orders and event items. If you're not sure, use the /wiki command to look them up on the wiki. This step might seem like a hassle, but next time you get the item you'll already know what to do with it, so it will save you time in the long run. - Any items you get somewhat regularly, but don't need to have in your inventory you can put in your bank. Excess fractal encryptions/keys, tomes of knowledge, and black lion salvage kits are a few of the common ones you might do this with. - If your bank becomes cluttered, you can /wiki stuff in there to see if it's worth keeping or not as well. If you have a lot of gear, process it. If you have a lot of stacks of materials that you pulled out of your material storage, it might be time to consider selling those or crafting with them if they've gotten to the point of filling your bank. - If you have a spare character slot you aren't using, you can always make a bank character, slap some cheap bags on it, and use it to store stuff too. I have one that I use to store things like raid KP, boosters I'm not using any time soon, seasonal items for festivals, important items for achievements that are already partially finished or are hard to replace, partially finished legendary crafting components, ascended gear chests, and anything else I might not use very often but still want to hold onto. For cheap bags to use on bank characters you can do 20 slot uncommon fractal boxes if you have spare fractal relics to spend on them. If not, you can always just do normal 18/12/8 slot bags depending on your budget and that's still a lot better than nothing. Hopefully that helps!
@@abree107 _"If your material storage is full of something, refine the stack if you can. If not, pull it out and put it in your bank"_ ...Jesus Christ, I'm a moron. I forgot to do that step. That feels like 15% of my inventory management done right there. (Pulling out the full stack, I mean.) Thanks!
Great video, yet I don't get how you get more than 3 build slots, I've got 7 characters at the moment and only 3 build slots :( (without buying them ofc)
Each character has its own build templates. The ones on the left side are shared across the account. The only use I've found for those spots is a map completion build for my bank characters, but you could also just use them as spare build templates for your main character.
The Silver-Fed salvage kit does go on sale periodically, and most players can make do with Mystic Salvage kits for quite a while, so I'd definitely recommend doing that and waiting to buy it. If you don't know the recipe for mystic salvage kits, you can find it on the wiki.
Permanent gathering tools are account-bound and can be transferred to 1 character or another. Some players will leave a set in shared inventory slots to equip and unequip on various characters, but if you're primarily playing on 1 character, you can easily move them over to that new character.
I believe you're talking about the Lily of the Elon, which is actually a lounge itself. Unless you're looking for a specific perk from one of the other lounges (fractal entrance, dueling etc), it should be fairly comparable and there won't be much to gain from getting a second one.
You won't be able to teleport back to the map you were for free with Lily but other than that it has everything a lounge pass gives you so yes it's pretty good. Plus free teleport to the desert after you unlock that part of the story :)
Yeah, black lion keys are complete garbage. A good chunk of the common stuff in the rotation isn't even exclusive to Black Lion Chests. Crap like a handful of mats or a few transmutation charges. Aggressively awful and takes advantage of people more vulnerable to gambling with the super super rare chance of something really good out of it.
I'll give arenanet credit in the fact that they're much less predatory than other games, but loot boxes are just not a good value ever. Gambling is bad.
bought complete edition on steam with copper fed and runecrafters salavage o mattic...still confused should i go for more shared inventory slots next? or is it enough for now? since without shared inventory slots silver fed slavage o mattic and lounge pass key would be useless for other characters that i just levelled up
If you're the kind of person that likes playing multiple characters or classes, then you'll need to buy shared inventory slots to accommodate any upgrades you get so you can use them across characters. If you're the kind of person that finds their favorite class/character/loadout in games and plays only that, then shared inventory slots are way too expensive for what value they'll provide you. It all depends on which of those 2 you are.
stuff under "personal preference" and "do not buy" are that expensive, and usually plain useless, BUT these items are in gem shop for people, who want SUPPORT the game by prchasing and spending gems on these items, black lions key are obviously gamble trap, that i fall for it few times, if you want that unique items from bl, basicaly bl keys are pure random, so you can drop it from just 1 key, BUT usualy amount of keys for that exclusive skin is about 30~40, i play for 10 years and i open usually 1 key per week, and i NEVER saw that permament contract, even if you want black lion ticket, its 1 scrap per 5 keys and you need 10 scraps for ticket, but again, you buy these, bcz you want support game, so, if you have money to waste, buy these, so I can play for free :D
Pretty much all the information you need to answer that question is in my other videos. In any case, you'll save a lot of gold by crafting instead of buying it. Plus it will feel more special, so I'd thoroughly recommend crafting it instead.
@@mynameisjeff7574 You might try getting clarification on stuff from people in voice chat in the Overflow Trading Company Discord. There's quite a few people that might be able to diagnose your problem. Usually it's a matter of translating total gold value into liquid gold.
Believe it or not, all the information is pretty much up on the channel already. Except spreadsheeting, which you can refer to Sam Ajeste's channel for if you're interested. He's much more handsome and already has multiple videos about GW2 spreadsheets.
Telling people to buy endless contracts... Not everyone has 150K gold in hard cash or even at all. Buying those you'll need like 10K gold. How much gold do you think people make?
There is no point in this video that I recommended anyone to buy permanent black lion contracts. I only have 1 of them myself and don't even recommend people get that one, so I'm not sure where you're getting this from.
Informative and to the point. The ones that I found the most impactful was the copper salvage, mistlounge pass, 5 shared inventory and the +250 material storage. I did end up buying the volatile infinite gathering tools and it was pricey, but it was worth it to me, complimented the shared inventory nicely for when I had to switch characters
Gather tools that come with a glyph you want, like reapers, can be on sell for less than what the glyph alone costs on the tp. Mystlock wipes your EoD battery buffs. Thousand seas is a nice alternative for the extra ports to non-city maps.
You know, I'm actually gonna hard disagree on a few things. The infinite gathering tools, and copper and silver-fed salvage-o-matics, should be the first purchases I'd say anyone should make, for a single reason: they are, by far, the most cost-effective inventory options you could ever have. Without them, you need to dedicate a huge portion of your bag to salvage kits, and harvesting tools, or run into getting encumbered all the time, and/or missing out on free resource generation via harvesting. Those two purchases are the equivalent of buying, like, 3-4 bag slots, because your original 4-5 bag slots aren't going to be predominantly filled with salvage kits and harvesting tools. And while I know that you can buy karmic gathering tools for the glyph boosts they offer, they come in stacks that are half of the non-karmic kind, meaning you either need to dedicate absurd amounts of inventory to it, or port back to a city every 20 minutes or so to buy more tools (if doing even moderate farming for mats on the way).
Copperfed and runecrafter will save a ton of space, silverfed generally will not. If 2 of each gathering tool type doesn't last you at least a couple hours I'd probably take a look at what nodes you're stopping for and prioritize the higher value ones. If you really like node farming, then I guess the infinite use tools are pretty good, but most people don't actually get positive value from them nowadays. I say that as someone with 3 sets of them. The fact of the matter is they cost 30-35 USD or the equivalent gold per set for someone buying all 3 of them and that price tag can get you a lot more of the other stuff available. It's not inherently a bad item, but I think arenanet does price them slightly too high for the practical value they bring.
@@abree107 yeah, that's pretty fair. I suppose it also depends a lot on your preferred game mode, etc. My experience as a new player predominantly consisted of WvW and Open World content, and I forgot to factor in that new players now get a few build/equipment templates for free. Before that, my experience was needing to lug around food, oils, usually 1-2 other armor sets (because I didn't have enough character slots to let me have duplicate classes), and THEN worry about harvesting equipment and salvage kits. Given all this, being able to salvage unlimited items on the fly, and harvest unlimited resources without consuming my, like, 10-15 remaining bag slots.... it was BIG. That said, with equipment templates being a thing, it does somewhat change the maths around it. That said, I'd still say they're easily S-tier in their ability to let you get full use out of whatever bag slots you have.
@@kelleren4840 actually anything "infinite", tool or salvage, is worth of purchase ONLY, if you plan play for long, and i mean YEARS long, if you are casuals who play gw2 like any other game and leave after half of year, its just waste money, especialy templates, templates are story of its own, it purpose come mainly from whining raiders, and bcz arenanet push raids like RLY HARD, they implemented these even nobody wants them or need, i NEVER use template once, its far convenient buy character slot and have full new character with full inventory etc, then buy extra template, personaly, if new player manage get first 300g, they should buy mistlock lounge and you are done for entire game, and if you are like rly poor, you can use just WvW Obsidium sanctum or pvp lobby and be fine just with that
@@nargalda773 I hear what you're saying for the cost effectiveness of salvage and gathering tools. I think that this overlooks the immediate convenience the tools provide though. I didn't buy the gathering tools or salvage o matics to save money; I actually wouldn't care if it was slightly more expensive to use the salvage o matics than consumable kits. The saved inventory space and convenience alone were well worth it to me, regardless of the cost efficiency, which I think is an important point to consider.
Lol. You use silver only for rare items. Copper is for white and blues. You idealy want both but if you had to choose one, the copper is the one to go with. Not Silver. And 2nd, you dont need those pricey gathering tools at all. If Arena Net made it possible to switch them by like right clicking on the equipped tools and have a small window popup that shows all the character names of your account to then transfer them to any of your choice, then yes absolutely. As of now, out of my 1200 hours playtime the only time I gather intensively is when doing Drizzlewood Coast meta. I dont see the worth. Gathering seems like a waste of time. I would never put these at the same level as Shared Inventory Slots for example.
Lounge Passkey Tip: You can also buy the 2 week lounge passkeys for 4 black lion statuettes (all except Lily of the Elon I believe), if you're on the fence about spending the gems on the permanent versions and want to "preview" them.
Ah yes, as a newcomer I feel overwhelmed and also kinda disappointed by how many items exist in the cash shop.. considering getting all the expansions and living world seasons but there is even more I would have to get for convenient gameplay? Seems kinda crazy :/ But I crave a new mmorpg. WoW and ffxiv can not scratch that itch of mine anymore.
You're able to play without any of this stuff and still really enjoy the game. I did for years. And because you're able to buy gems with gold, you've always got an alternative to spending real money to get some of these items if you want to.
I'm not tryin to be harsh but this video automatically started after another video. At first I thought it was a infomercial, until I realized you talked about gw2.
Great video, man! I'm coming back to the game from way back near launch. I really enjoy a lot of the QoL changes ANet made. They dropped loads of things that made me leave to begin with, so I went whole hog and bought the Ultimate since it's B2P. I've been looking for insight in to how to spend my gems frugally. This video is just what I was looking for. Thanks!
Worth noting that, since this video came out, the Recharging Teleport to Friend has been reduced from a 1 hour cooldown to a mere 10 minute cooldown. It is much more useful now, and should at least be given some consideration as a potential investment, especially if you often find yourself on a character without any waypoints in a map you need to get to.
what the hell ? 150,000g ☠ i thought this video was a generic one, but u actually explained why we should buy them, thanks. off topic, but do you recommend to buy the infinite gathering tools with black lion statuettes?
I prefer in-depth guides to superficial ones so that's what I tend to make. The infinite gathering tools are technically the best "practical value" you can get with statuettes, but obviously most people care about those juicy cosmetics. I've acquired 2 sets of gathering tools with statuettes, so I'd definitely recommend it if you don't have any black lion exclusive skins you'd rather spend them on. The only downside is you don't get glyphs with those.
I've personally only used maybe 20% of the consumable ones I've gotten from birthdays and most of those were only because I wanted alt characters on specific maps. I'm a pretty proactive player though. If you're really casual and a lazy player, it's probably worth buying after you've gone through most of your consumable ones? I'm just not the target customer.
I suppose that one comes down to personal preference. I tend to prefer having the option of turning something down over not being able to adequately turn it up. The funny thing is that my voice is quieter than the default settings on spotify when it comes to the audio in the video file I upload. TH-cam does automatically mess with the audio in an attempt to normalize it, but that should theoretically fix any problems for you and make me quieter.
Oh thank god I didn't buy any traps. I'm a newbie. This video was very helpful. I'd add one thing to the Black Lion Keys. I got one and found a chest or something and it didn't have anything I wanted so I sold it for almost 1000g and put that into gems (bought the volatile unbreakables... a day after they were off sale but still.) I've still got gems for rolling more keys during the next big event. It's better to farm them. Level 10 personal quest every Sunday. But they CAN pay out. So if you have nothing else you really want...
Recharging tele to friends is nice now that we dont get many single use ones. Course i got the recharge one on sell and just threw it in a shared slot to save on inventory. Course only do that if like me made most the leggies wanted got a lot of gem store items wanted and just grabbing stuff might use. I have been deleting the single use ones now to simply save on space.
I'm not a huge fan of how far things are from one another in the PvP lobby. Mistlock let me flip while commanding trains with almost no downtime and also was super convenient as someone that used to do 4+ hours of fractals several days a week. It's a really good quality of life for only 600-1000 gems, but if you don't do any crafting or fractals, it's not like it's a functional upgrade that you'd be missing out on.
One place I think people forget about is Obsidian Sanctum in the wvw panel. Has vendor, bank, TP, laurel merch, all right by waypoint to hop in and out back to where you were if you want a good free option.
@@abree107 i will think about the passes as a possibility. I may go for the WvW one over other choices. I do like Lily of the Elon as a way to get to PoF maps but with EoD out my reasons to go to PoF at all is so small.
You only use it for rare gear, which is only a small portion of the total gear you salvage. For most players, they can make Mystic salvage kits instead and it will be cheaper per salvage than the silverfed kit is. Eventually you'll run out of Mystic Forge stones, but for a lot of players, that will take months or even years of active play. There's also the fact that you can carry around 2-3 master salvage kits if you have no other options left, and it won't bog down your inventory much, but if you're missing copperfed, you'll be hauling around 10 or more basic salvage kits to salvage what you get in a few hour play session, and that clogs up your inventory a lot. To summarize: - Copperfed provides massive quality of life for any type of player and saves tons of inventory space. - Runecrafter's is just the best kit for green items and there's no equivalent kit available through other methods. It's a straight up upgrade to your accounts income. - Silverfed provides a small or moderate quality of life, depending on if you have forge stones or not. It costs more than using a Mystic kit, and only marginally less than using a master kit. Still okay to have, but definitely not as helpful as the others, particularly if you still have forge stones available.
@@abree107Thanks for the explanation! I have some difficult understanding english video while it's easier for writing. Unfortunately i found this video after already have bought the silver thinking would be good for me...
holy mother of god... 150k gold? yesterday i sold a Lunar trophy for 4 gold i was over the moon thiking i could finally affford to move out the hood. some excellent tips here tho man you a hero
2:55 A free version of this is using the PVP lobby. Doesn't have everything, but it's a neat free teleport that you can use to restock basic stuff and teleport back to where you were or take the portal to Lion's Arch.
Its important to say the Thousand Seas Pavillion has one major benefit: Because you can teleport to fishing spots across Tyria, you can essentially fast travel to (almost) every map for free. I wish I could somehow count how much gold I saved by not waypointing across the map all the time, but im sure its somewhere in the dozens by now.
I'm returning to the game after, like, a decade or something. I asked myself this question when Abree mentioned the ability to fast travel to fishing spots. The video only shows a few (4 @ 05:13) spots. 2 of which are in the Human area. Can you really go - even almost - anywhere?
@@thedubixcube Well, just for you, I shall see how many maps you can go to.
1. Tyria
1.1 Kryta
1.1.1 Queensdale
1.1.2 Kessex Hills
1.1.3 Blootide Coast
1.1.4 Southsun Cove
1.2 Ascalon
1.2.1 Plains of Ashford
1.2.2 Diessa Plateau
1.2.3 Fields of Ruin
1.2.4 Iron Marches
1.3 Maguuma Jungle
1.3.1 Caledon Forest
1.3.2 Province Metrica
1.3.3 Mount Maelstrom
1.3.4 Sparkfly Fen
1.4 Shiverpeaks
1.4.1 Timberline Falls
1.4.2 Lornar's Pass
1.4.3 Frostgorge Sound
1.4.4 Thunderhead Peaks
1.5 Orr
1.5.1 Straits of Devastation
1.5.2 Malchors Leap
1.5.3 Cursed Shore
1.5.4 Siren's Landing
1.6 Ring of Fire
1.6.1 Ember Bay
1.6.2 Draconis Mons
2. Elona
2.1 Elon Riverlands
2.2 Domain of Vaabi
2.3 Domain of Istan
2.4 Sandswept Isles
3. Cantha
3.1 Dragons End
3.2 Echovald Wilds
3.3 Province of Seitung
3.4 City of New Kaineng
4. Return to previous map
So, as you can see, there are quite the selections available. Not all Maps, sure, but most are on there (with the exception of HoT maps).
What’s best way to get HoT map teleports? Can you get there from
Noble folly?
@@zaekeon Should be possible (this is actually one of the few passes I don’t yet own), but take note that, unlike with some other passes, this one does not allow you to return to your previous map (according to the wiki).
Thats cheating allowable by TOS lol. Gaming is pathetic nowadays.
I think it's very important to mention Obsidian sanctum whenever passes come up. It has bank, trading and basic merchant access, can be activated anywhere and returns you to where you've been. And it's free!
On the infinite gathering tools. Some of them come with really good glyphs like the volatile magic ones. Also glyphs of industry and reaping are a couple of interesting ones. And some of these come on infinite gathering tools. Considering the gold price on the tp for some of these glyphs, you might as well take that infinite gathering tool and be done with it. However, there's another reason to get some gathering tools, particularly for mining and harvesting. The fused molten sickle is a harvesting tool that only takes half the time for the animation to be done. In other words you can harvest twice as quickly. Add the glyph of reaping to that and it's a real QoL upgrade. Think of places like Bitterfrost Frontier.
Also for mining there are the Skyscale Hatchling Mining Tool and the Spirit of Bear Mining Tool. What they do is for rich mining nodes. Instead of having to mine 3 times they can do rich mining nodes in 2. And as extra bonus the Skyscale one comes with a glyph of alchemy (which is handy if you need orichalcum for example, since mithril nodes are available in much higher quantities). And the Spirit of Bear one comes with a glyph of Industry, which makes gathering 50% faster. Oh and as I side note the glyph of reaping I mentioned comes with the Skyscale Hatchling Harvesting Tool.
Then there is the point that you can reskin unlimited gathering tools in the wardrobe section. So if you have one fused molten sickle is a harvesting tool, you can apply that skin to a cheaper unlimited harvesting tool on another character and it will have the same benefit of being twice as fast. Also, for example, when you have one Spirit of Bear Mining Tool, you can apply that skin on another character with a different/cheaper mining tool and have the same benefit of only needing 2 mining actions instead of 3.
Lastly, glyphs that you get from those unlimited gathering tools are account bound, so you can take them out and put them in other gathering tools and on other characters' gathering tools. The animations will still be the same but the result from the glyph will be whatever glyph you put in.
NIce info, ty for sharing.
I would add that the choya mining tool also takes 2 tries to mine rich nodes and the choya harvesting tool also has a faster animation than normal.
Huge fan of how open you are to how different people might want to play the game or value things differently.
I'm very jealous of the people that somehow find fire elemental engaging after almost 10 years of doing. I don't understand how there's still so many people doing it, but I wish I had simple pleasures such as that.
@@abree107 Honestly? Sometimes you just need to turn your brain off for a bit and chat with other players. Core world boss trains are excellent for that. I rarely do them anymore, but it's a chill and nostalgic time when I do.
@@SheenaMalfoy Fair enough. I usually just get told to "kys" whenever I try to chill and talk to other players because I place buy orders instead of instabuy. Real thing I've really been told twice by 2 different people. Now I just stream super scuffed halo MCC achievements in discord when I need people to chill with.
@@abree107💀
Just use your infinite use tools in your shared inventory slots, just put oricalchum tools on each of your characters then when you want to change you dont have to go to hero panel to swap everytime, effectively just auto swapping from shared slots.
I love this, for me the way I solved the inventory issue on my 2 mains was maxing out bag slots but, using the 20slot bags that do specific things. Like equipment, material, ect ect. I have a few invisible bags for things I want to use like different gear or food. It really helps. I've noticed not a lot of people take advantage of that and I'm not exactly sure why
This has been one of the most helpful videos since I started playing GW2 ten days ago! Thx
I had no idea the game had permanent hairstyle kits. My endgame goal has been set!
9:17 OCD gamer appreciates it lol
As far as the infinite gathering tools go, just put them in shared slots and have all your characters filled with basic tools so you can just double click the shared slots to swap them in and right before you log out or switch characters double click them again to swap them back into the shared slots. ofc that's purely if you have extra shared slots which maybe not the best use for them but works for me.
Quite a few people do that, yeah. I actually use most of my statuettes on tools, so I actually have 3 sets now, but really the more important thing is to figure out what nodes are worth farming and which ones are just a waste of time to stop for. That number will be different for everyone, but nobody needs to stop for a node that gives 3c mats.
Someone in my guild has 80 characters and does this with 72 of them at the Itzel Flax Farm with the glyph of bounty. That's a hefty chunk of gold from that
@@abree107 I'd agree with working out the value of nodes in general, but it's worth considering that if you have, say, Glyph of the Watchknight in your tool, that's an automatic 1s60 to 2s50 profit every 3 swings, possibly making the stop worth it in crowded areas like gardens.
@@abree107 I've been looking for info about which nodes are worth stopping for (presumably very few), but i haven't found a list or anything. Is there something like that or will I be doing the math myself?
@@ellie_is_okay The [Fast] farming site might have something like that. The "worth stopping to farm" line is going to be different for everyone though. I'd look for a node that gives at least 1s in value and then I'd make sure I'm using one of the best glyphs. The [Fast] site definitely has a page for glyphs, but volatile magic and watchknight are the most valuable last I knew.
Good list! I'd add that the lounge passes are not quite as useful as they seem, though, since you can teleport to and from the PvP lounge on any character in order to get access to merchant, bank and trading post. Combine that with the Icebrood Saga teleport to Eye of the North (when EotN is upgraded) and you have the same functionality as the pass for a much smaller investment.
I'd agree that Copper and Runecrafter salvage-o-matic are a must-buy for QoL, it's so handy while chain running metas to just take a minute to salvage all my blues and greens on the spot rather than find a merchant to buy a dozen slots of savage kits.
The advantages of passes are having many more features like crafting workbenches, the forge etc. and also being significantly faster to use than the PvP lobby. There's many players that tend to use Eye of the North or the PvP lobby and it's fine, but I've found that most of the players doing that don't take advantage of daily crafting and such. As far as I'm concerned, passes are probably one of the best values when it comes to stuff that's quality-of-life oriented, after the salvage kits. I'd have several additional teleports that I'd have to do on a daily basis just for crafting and buying fractal keys if I used the PvP lobby.
@@abree107 That's fair enough! I've gotten myself into the habit of using Arborstone for my daily crafting, since I need to be there for Cantha strikes anyway, but I can't deny that having all that in one place would be a good QoL change.
Your content is so damn good, however I can't understand how you don't have all the nice to haves already, considering you are rich AF
(God I wish I had a 100th of your balance, considering the anniversary sale is coming up)
I'm cheap. Also I never found a use for TP to friends and you'll never find me at a central tyria or HoT meta. I do have 3 sets of tools, but only 1 was bought with gems and VM was worth over double what it is now, so I did actually make my gold back on them. I do have a full home instance, primarily for other players and I did finish it because I didn't have any other legendaries I wanted. I don't play very many builds so templates are absolutely worthless to me. All of the gems I have are reserved for character slots. I'm waiting for a 35-40% off sale and that's probably the last upgrade I'll ever want to buy.
@@abree107 may I ask why you need so many chars?
Alt parking? Or what's the reason behind it?
@@maxzett I'd like to have more storage space on my account. I don't really need it at the moment, but if I got heavy into gold-making again, I'd want more. If you utilize the space appropriately, you can pay off character slots in 6-12 months of use. If you're buying character slots at 35-40% off and filling them fractal boxes that are super cheap, it makes it even easier to get those slots to pay for themselves. Obviously, there's some research work and gold behind filling the slots with appropriate things, but one decent return on a festival item, seasonally fluctuating item, or update related item will pay for them.
@@abree107 if u ever wanna get back into gold making and are tired of having an easy start by having a huge capital, I happily provide my acc details :D
Obviously Im only interested in providing you a challenging experience and my own incompetence in making any gold has nothing to do with that at all 🥸
The black lion exclusive skins will end up in the statuette vendor after 2 to 3 months so if you really want a skin and you burned through enough chests to get 60 statuettes just wait a bit before gambling more.
Hence my burning 60-something keys. 2 exclusives for free with no gambling necessary.
Tbh I really wish gem sale, key sale, and double statuettes happened at the same time because I have 232 statuettes specifically to get some of the exclusive skins. I bought 60 keys JUST to get 120 statuettes with the current double statuettes.
Are we not gonna talk about his 150k gold.
All my gems so far went to LS episodes and the copper salvage-o-matic. No regrets.
My next will probably be an extra shared bag spot, or a new char slot.
I dunno about the lounge keys, if you wanna save yourself 1k gems just use the obsidian sanctum instead just hit the battlegrounds tab and click enter obsidian sanctum and when you want to leave and get back to where you were just hit the tab again and press leave the sanctum or something like that, i know i doesn't have access to the forge but i has access to pretty much everything else you'd need 😊
The only problem is that obsidian sanctum drains your participation for WvW.
@@abree107 true however if you dont do that much wvw it shouldn't be that big of a deal 😊
@@MadassSoerensen Fair enough, I suppose. I'll still argue that my pass is the best 220g I've ever spent haha
@@abree107 Wont argue with that! :D
I can't even see the lounge keys on the store. All there is are temporary 2 week passes for 1 lounge?
about portal devices to Central Tyrian and HoT, they teleport you to the location of waypoint, no matter if its contested or not
Awesome video, after all these years of playing GW2, i had no clue about lounges , i had seen them on twitch, but didn't realise you needed to buy a passkey
exactly what i was looking for.
i knew what i need to buy just not which order or what helps the most.
Incredibly useful video, thank you!
Nice video, helped me a lot, bought two salvage o matics on sale today
Best item to purchase is the "Path of Fire Preparation Pack", normally 3,500 gems, but goes on sale for between 2,800 to 2450 gems, that is using 20%, 25% or 30% off sales. It contains 1 Character slot (800 gems), 1 Instant Level 80 Ticket (2,000 gems), 2 Bag Slots (800 gems), 10 Black Lion Chest Keys (1,250 gems), and 1 Unbreakable Gathering Tools Container, which has all three unbreakable gathering tools (2,400 gems). That is a total value of 7,250 gems for as low as 2,450 gems when on sale for 30% off. Even at the regular price of 3,500 gems, the POF Pack is still a great deal. I have bought five of these packs since they first came out. They have the EoD Prep Pack for 3,000 gems, but it doesn't contain unbreakable tools. It has a has a Build and Equipment Template.
oh damn that does sound like excellent value.
@@federaly
Well depends of what you need... for exemple the instant level 80 ticket may cost 2000 gems in theory but in practice it's totally worthless...
Thanks for Slot Character tip for bank! I was buying another bank tab on promo yesterday but i'll wait for another character slot promo =D
Good info all-around, even nicely mentioning that some are indeed personal preference and all that. Personally got lucky one with some earned key and got perm-extractor, which is helpful when needing to swap upgrades. (only have two legendaries; amulet from "Return-chain" and pistol due to wanting upgrade its pre.)
A recharging version of the consumable convenience items would be nice. I don't usually need a revive orb, bank access, or trading post more than once an hour.
Well contracts exist for both the trading post and bank access.
also Abree did not mention SKINS for mounts, gliders, ships or even fish stick, these items are pure purpose of suporting game, actually skins sell so much, that it once save Arenanet from going bankrupcy, so if you want, buy these, but you dont need go crazy about them
if you want buy lounge, the ONLY three have return to your previous location, Armistice bastion, Mistlock and Thousands sea pavilon, sometimes these come for sale 20-30% off, in that case, you should buy any of these immiedely, as adition, buy shared inventory slot and put these in
Really good stuff! Well made, easy to understand!
i bought a bundle of transmutatio ncharges on sale for 480 gems as my first ever purchase with a proper change kit to get a different hair/face/eye color sfor my main XD
when i started playing a few weeks ago, and while i don't rlly regret getting those transmutations much , i realise now i could have gotten a whole bank tab for those gems, and its also a lil sad that my "main" scrapper is now my 2main as im rlly..rlly enjoying mesmer mirage XD
guess we all have to fall for something at least once is what im trying to say, so don't be discouraged if you got something from the noob trap/bad tier just know not to make the same mistake again
I was incredibly disappointed when I found out the unlimited gathering tools couldn't be equipped by multiple characters
Yep, that's how they get you. Honestly, it's probably just how the game worked when they made the first infinite-use tools and then they figured it didn't need to be changed. Some people use their shared inventory slots to store them and then swap with normal tools every time they swap characters. It's a decent little work-around.
Awesome video! Many many thanks mate!
i would def get the snowflake gobbler its really useful for getting gifts of battle if youre into crafting legys but more than that its helpful when leveling up masteries
I know this is late, but you can get Lion's Pride with Living World Season 1 instead of a Lounge Passkey. Considering you also get 7x 20 slot bags with Living World S1, I think overall it's a better value.
Not a bad idea.
That being said, I don't know how good Lion's Pride is compared to gem store lounges lol@@abree107
If you get the deluxe edition of pof you already have a lounge also handy way to get into pof for hero points without having to do the introduction story
Imagine paying for items in a video game you already have pay for. Holy wow. Has microtransactions become so normalized that this is good in your eyes?
The fact that you're able to access premium cosmetics without spending real money? The alternative is just never being able to access them without paying, which is how most games work.
Games require money to continue development and the options are to churn out new games and abandon the old one, charge membership fees, or have a cash shop. Between the 3, I'll take the last option, especially when you don't get any ridiculous advantage from the cash shop and everything is able to be purchased with in-game gold.
If you're one of the lucky people that's wealthy enough to not sweat dropping $30-60 on games every couple weeks, then that's good for you. Not everyone is that fortunate and some people prefer games that offer a better time:money ratio. That's why it's good in my opinion. Guild Wars 2 gives you options and doesn't force you into paying a lot to play.
Still don't really see the use of a Lounge over just popping into the Guild Hall. We have most of that in the guild hall except for the Black Lion stuff, which I use almost never. So, 85% of a Lounge, but 100% free.
There's several free alternatives nowadays. It just depends on what you like doing. If you're huge into fractals for example, mistlock is a huge quality of life upgrade.
Your guides are really good :) and I have a question, you said something about an item that can change hair more then 1 time, or I get it wrong?
There is an infinite hairstyle contract. I don't believe I said anything about contracts in this video, since they aren't gemstore items, but I may have mentioned them in passing and forgot.
It's quite an expensive item, usually hovering between 2-3k gold on the trading post. Once you bind it to your account, you can redo your hair as much as you want on all of your characters and I believe there's certain colors/styles you can access that aren't available on character creation? I'm no fashion wars expert, but I believe that's the case.
@@abree107 thank you very much for that answer. I didnt know that something like that exist. But yea thats a bit expensive tbh.
And you didnt talk specific about that you scratched it, and that made me curious :)
Also mistlock is one of the only ones with a teleport back button so Its way more convenient then most lounges in a sense that you can save cost with way points if you need to sell stuff from meta's etc
If you're just looking to sell stuff and then teleport back to the map you came from, you can always use the PvP lobby for free.
Its not the only one, Armistice Bastion and Champion's Rest (pvp) and Thousand Seas Pavilion has it too
Can you explain why the Candy Corn Gobbler is important for Gold farming?
Spirit shards are one of the most valuable account-bound currencies in the game. At their lowest, they've still always been worth at least around 30 silver each. Usually, a range of 50-55 silver is readily achievable, with more being very possible. GW2Efficiency.com has a page for spirit shard values, but that assumes you sell the product you make with them on the trading post. If you use spirit shards for material promotions and then use the materials you promote for your own crafting purposes, you'll actually gain a lot more gold value than the page says.
You get a spirit shard every time you fill your experience bar after achieving level 80 and filling your available mastery xp bars out. 254k experience grants 1 shard.
The candy corn gobbler is a fairly cheap, renewable experience booster. Experience boosters give 50% bonus xp from all sources with the ability to get killstreak boosts that stack up to a total of 100% bonus experience from kills. They're the single biggest buff you can get to experience gains in open-world PvE.
Access to that booster permanently for cheap means you can get more experience, which means more spirit shards, which means more gold. It can also give you karma and magic find booster effects (the output is random), but primarily the value comes from getting the experience booster.
Recharging TP to friend... I need it.
Buy the salvage kit to fix the terrible inventory cluttering in the game you mean.
I managed just fine without it for a long time, but it's definitely one of the more convenient items to get.
The best gem store items are the cat ears.
15:00 why do you have 2 black lion statuette as the default while mine is one black lion and one yellow mini jackal?
The second slot is a guaranteed drop that rotates, just like the rest of the contents of the chest. Usually it's an item worth 1g each or less. On occasion it's a second statuette, and I almost always choose to use my keys when that happens. Statuettes can be used to buy exclusive skins from previous chest rotations, as well as infinite gathering tools and some other items. That arguably makes them the most valuable 2nd slot drop.
A quick exception to the 2-week pass rule, is that the lava lounge comes with a season 3 episode attached. This is cheaper than buying the episode right out, and if I recall correctly, it will also cheapen the price of the whole lws3 bundle.
EDIT: it can also be bought for 4 black lion statuettes, but this method will NOT unlock the episode.
Edit again: Nevermind, the bundle is, as of some date, not cheaper than just the episode.
Why is it that on steam deck I cant buy anything from the gem store, I just get a infinite load screen. This also happens in every game that has a cash shop. Does anyone know a solution?
is in game steam overlay ON?
And this level 80 boost in the shared inventory slot. You probably wanted to save it for later and later never came?
Every character on my account has been level 80 since before EoD launch. I don't need the shared inventory slot and I'd be deleting all the free crap that comes from using the boost, so there's just no point in using it. If I end up buying more character slots in the future, it'll go to the first character created. At the end of the day, it's only worth a small number of spirit shards to me and I don't really need those.
the gobblers are only good for the reward track buffs but worth it,so go get them !
The candy corn is extremely good for farming as well. The festival ones are really only worth using for rewards tracks.
Thank you for this
Wow I didn't know the lounge passkey was permanent. 😲
There's permanent versions and 2-week versions for each lounge. You just have to wait for the permanent key of your choice to become available.
@@abree107 do they usually release the permanent one randomly or on set occassions?
@@bluejjutsu Sales are always a good bet. The anniversary sale a couple months ago had several available.
How does Season 4 give skyscale earlier?
The episodes are required for doing the collections for skyscale.
ideal guide
I didn't realize abree made this.... HI Abree
Hi
i really wish the gobbler didnt have a cooldown tho it takes SOOOOOOOOOOO LONG to use lol but otherwise its fantastic.
Yeah, the candy corn gobbler is best stacked while you're waiting on other things. Having it available to click before meta events start and things like that can minimize the amount of extra time you have to spend on it.
Do you have a video on proper inventory management?
Unfortunately not. I've thought about eventually doing it though. It's something that's a bit individual as everyone has different preferences.
The general method I follow would be:
- Deposit Materials
- If your material storage is full of something, refine the stack if you can. If not, pull it out and put it in your bank or list it for sale if you don't need it in the future.
- Sell junk items and vendor anything else appropriate (like green medallions that are 1s10c)
- Open and salvage unidentified gear (refer to the video for how to do that if you don't know already). You could also wait until you have full stacks of gear and place those in your bank and do them in batches of say 10 stacks at a time if you want. Repeat the first 2 steps after processing the gear.
- You might have some random bits left in your inventory. A lot of them can be destroyed, like Encoded Orders and event items. If you're not sure, use the /wiki command to look them up on the wiki. This step might seem like a hassle, but next time you get the item you'll already know what to do with it, so it will save you time in the long run.
- Any items you get somewhat regularly, but don't need to have in your inventory you can put in your bank. Excess fractal encryptions/keys, tomes of knowledge, and black lion salvage kits are a few of the common ones you might do this with.
- If your bank becomes cluttered, you can /wiki stuff in there to see if it's worth keeping or not as well. If you have a lot of gear, process it. If you have a lot of stacks of materials that you pulled out of your material storage, it might be time to consider selling those or crafting with them if they've gotten to the point of filling your bank.
- If you have a spare character slot you aren't using, you can always make a bank character, slap some cheap bags on it, and use it to store stuff too. I have one that I use to store things like raid KP, boosters I'm not using any time soon, seasonal items for festivals, important items for achievements that are already partially finished or are hard to replace, partially finished legendary crafting components, ascended gear chests, and anything else I might not use very often but still want to hold onto.
For cheap bags to use on bank characters you can do 20 slot uncommon fractal boxes if you have spare fractal relics to spend on them. If not, you can always just do normal 18/12/8 slot bags depending on your budget and that's still a lot better than nothing.
Hopefully that helps!
@@abree107 Thanks for the reply!
@@abree107 _"If your material storage is full of something, refine the stack if you can. If not, pull it out and put it in your bank"_
...Jesus Christ, I'm a moron. I forgot to do that step. That feels like 15% of my inventory management done right there. (Pulling out the full stack, I mean.) Thanks!
Great video, yet I don't get how you get more than 3 build slots, I've got 7 characters at the moment and only 3 build slots :( (without buying them ofc)
Each character has its own build templates. The ones on the left side are shared across the account. The only use I've found for those spots is a map completion build for my bank characters, but you could also just use them as spare build templates for your main character.
150k gold and 19k gems what the fuckkkkkkkkkkkk…. It took me 3 months to get 250 gold for the griffin what the hell!!!!
If I were a bit less lazy, I'd be using it to make more gold. For now, it's just a comment farming device.
16:18 where can you find these permanent contracts? I haven't been able to find anything about it on the internet or the game
The permanent contracts are on the trading post. If you search "contract", all of them will come up. They're quite pricey though.
Does the silver salvage ever gets a discount or should we buy it as it is?
The Silver-Fed salvage kit does go on sale periodically, and most players can make do with Mystic Salvage kits for quite a while, so I'd definitely recommend doing that and waiting to buy it. If you don't know the recipe for mystic salvage kits, you can find it on the wiki.
Wait, can I move the gathering tools from one character to another? I thought they were stuck on my ele but I main necro now
Permanent gathering tools are account-bound and can be transferred to 1 character or another. Some players will leave a set in shared inventory slots to equip and unequip on various characters, but if you're primarily playing on 1 character, you can easily move them over to that new character.
I got a TP ticket to the crystal oasis for free when I bought the deluxe package.
Is the lounge worth it, considering CO has ALMOST everything ?
I believe you're talking about the Lily of the Elon, which is actually a lounge itself. Unless you're looking for a specific perk from one of the other lounges (fractal entrance, dueling etc), it should be fairly comparable and there won't be much to gain from getting a second one.
You won't be able to teleport back to the map you were for free with Lily but other than that it has everything a lounge pass gives you so yes it's pretty good. Plus free teleport to the desert after you unlock that part of the story :)
Yeah, black lion keys are complete garbage. A good chunk of the common stuff in the rotation isn't even exclusive to Black Lion Chests. Crap like a handful of mats or a few transmutation charges. Aggressively awful and takes advantage of people more vulnerable to gambling with the super super rare chance of something really good out of it.
I'll give arenanet credit in the fact that they're much less predatory than other games, but loot boxes are just not a good value ever. Gambling is bad.
bought complete edition on steam with copper fed and runecrafters salavage o mattic...still confused should i go for more shared inventory slots next? or is it enough for now? since without shared inventory slots silver fed slavage o mattic and lounge pass key would be useless for other characters that i just levelled up
If you're the kind of person that likes playing multiple characters or classes, then you'll need to buy shared inventory slots to accommodate any upgrades you get so you can use them across characters. If you're the kind of person that finds their favorite class/character/loadout in games and plays only that, then shared inventory slots are way too expensive for what value they'll provide you. It all depends on which of those 2 you are.
14:25 better off farming BL keys if you got tons of leveling tomes and/or other leveling items in your bank.
Yeah I'd never buy them personally. Getting the freebie from the level 10 story each week and doing map exploration for the rest is my preference.
150k gold? how??? im newin gw2
Pretty much all of the "How" is in my other videos.
stuff under "personal preference" and "do not buy" are that expensive, and usually plain useless, BUT these items are in gem shop for people, who want SUPPORT the game by prchasing and spending gems on these items, black lions key are obviously gamble trap, that i fall for it few times, if you want that unique items from bl, basicaly bl keys are pure random, so you can drop it from just 1 key, BUT usualy amount of keys for that exclusive skin is about 30~40, i play for 10 years and i open usually 1 key per week, and i NEVER saw that permament contract, even if you want black lion ticket, its 1 scrap per 5 keys and you need 10 scraps for ticket, but again, you buy these, bcz you want support game, so, if you have money to waste, buy these, so I can play for free :D
I have no issue with supporting the game, but there is a big difference between cool skin you drool over and n00b trap items.
will the gobblers be available again this year?
Only time will tell. Unfortunately, I'm not privy to such information.
I got the candy gobbler this week
@@heartlin5875 me too
How in the world do you have so many cold i struggle to get enough to buy incinerator TT
Pretty much all the information you need to answer that question is in my other videos. In any case, you'll save a lot of gold by crafting instead of buying it. Plus it will feel more special, so I'd thoroughly recommend crafting it instead.
@@abree107 i saw your vids but i think im doing smth wrong and i stay broke
@@mynameisjeff7574 You might try getting clarification on stuff from people in voice chat in the Overflow Trading Company Discord. There's quite a few people that might be able to diagnose your problem. Usually it's a matter of translating total gold value into liquid gold.
150k gold, whatttt
Pls make a video of how you got sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much gold?=))) I'm pretty new player so I'm just confused of your amount of gold=)
Believe it or not, all the information is pretty much up on the channel already. Except spreadsheeting, which you can refer to Sam Ajeste's channel for if you're interested. He's much more handsome and already has multiple videos about GW2 spreadsheets.
@@abree107 Thank you, didn't notice your other videos at first try=))) Gotta check it ty ty=))
150k gold?? What the hell 😂
150k gold what the heck lol
This seems like an obligatory comment to get every time now.
@@abree107 haha
*best pay to win items in gw2
I don't recommend icebrood at all. Terrible terrible. Useless masteries.
This guy have 19k gems but saving 2silvers on waypoint…. Maybe this is the reason he have 19k gems 🤔
You can always save more money...
@@abree107 yes!! I'm like you lol was a joke =P
the leveling in GW2 IS a grind... and pointless.. Do buy those boosts. no one likes to fill the bar
I'd advise you to find a different game mate.
Telling people to buy endless contracts... Not everyone has 150K gold in hard cash or even at all. Buying those you'll need like 10K gold. How much gold do you think people make?
There is no point in this video that I recommended anyone to buy permanent black lion contracts. I only have 1 of them myself and don't even recommend people get that one, so I'm not sure where you're getting this from.
Why is there no permanent mistlock teleport pass? Only a two week one.
Permanent passkeys go on sale periodically for 600-1000 gems. They're not always available.
Informative and to the point. The ones that I found the most impactful was the copper salvage, mistlounge pass, 5 shared inventory and the +250 material storage. I did end up buying the volatile infinite gathering tools and it was pricey, but it was worth it to me, complimented the shared inventory nicely for when I had to switch characters
Gather tools that come with a glyph you want, like reapers, can be on sell for less than what the glyph alone costs on the tp. Mystlock wipes your EoD battery buffs. Thousand seas is a nice alternative for the extra ports to non-city maps.
You know, I'm actually gonna hard disagree on a few things.
The infinite gathering tools, and copper and silver-fed salvage-o-matics, should be the first purchases I'd say anyone should make, for a single reason: they are, by far, the most cost-effective inventory options you could ever have.
Without them, you need to dedicate a huge portion of your bag to salvage kits, and harvesting tools, or run into getting encumbered all the time, and/or missing out on free resource generation via harvesting.
Those two purchases are the equivalent of buying, like, 3-4 bag slots, because your original 4-5 bag slots aren't going to be predominantly filled with salvage kits and harvesting tools.
And while I know that you can buy karmic gathering tools for the glyph boosts they offer, they come in stacks that are half of the non-karmic kind, meaning you either need to dedicate absurd amounts of inventory to it, or port back to a city every 20 minutes or so to buy more tools (if doing even moderate farming for mats on the way).
Copperfed and runecrafter will save a ton of space, silverfed generally will not. If 2 of each gathering tool type doesn't last you at least a couple hours I'd probably take a look at what nodes you're stopping for and prioritize the higher value ones. If you really like node farming, then I guess the infinite use tools are pretty good, but most people don't actually get positive value from them nowadays. I say that as someone with 3 sets of them. The fact of the matter is they cost 30-35 USD or the equivalent gold per set for someone buying all 3 of them and that price tag can get you a lot more of the other stuff available. It's not inherently a bad item, but I think arenanet does price them slightly too high for the practical value they bring.
@@abree107 yeah, that's pretty fair. I suppose it also depends a lot on your preferred game mode, etc.
My experience as a new player predominantly consisted of WvW and Open World content, and I forgot to factor in that new players now get a few build/equipment templates for free.
Before that, my experience was needing to lug around food, oils, usually 1-2 other armor sets (because I didn't have enough character slots to let me have duplicate classes), and THEN worry about harvesting equipment and salvage kits.
Given all this, being able to salvage unlimited items on the fly, and harvest unlimited resources without consuming my, like, 10-15 remaining bag slots.... it was BIG.
That said, with equipment templates being a thing, it does somewhat change the maths around it. That said, I'd still say they're easily S-tier in their ability to let you get full use out of whatever bag slots you have.
@@kelleren4840 actually anything "infinite", tool or salvage, is worth of purchase ONLY, if you plan play for long, and i mean YEARS long, if you are casuals who play gw2 like any other game and leave after half of year, its just waste money, especialy templates, templates are story of its own, it purpose come mainly from whining raiders, and bcz arenanet push raids like RLY HARD, they implemented these even nobody wants them or need, i NEVER use template once, its far convenient buy character slot and have full new character with full inventory etc, then buy extra template, personaly, if new player manage get first 300g, they should buy mistlock lounge and you are done for entire game, and if you are like rly poor, you can use just WvW Obsidium sanctum or pvp lobby and be fine just with that
@@nargalda773 I hear what you're saying for the cost effectiveness of salvage and gathering tools.
I think that this overlooks the immediate convenience the tools provide though. I didn't buy the gathering tools or salvage o matics to save money; I actually wouldn't care if it was slightly more expensive to use the salvage o matics than consumable kits.
The saved inventory space and convenience alone were well worth it to me, regardless of the cost efficiency, which I think is an important point to consider.
Lol.
You use silver only for rare items. Copper is for white and blues.
You idealy want both but if you had to choose one, the copper is the one to go with. Not Silver.
And 2nd, you dont need those pricey gathering tools at all. If Arena Net made it possible to switch them by like right clicking on the equipped tools and have a small window popup that shows all the character names of your account to then transfer them to any of your choice, then yes absolutely. As of now, out of my 1200 hours playtime the only time I gather intensively is when doing Drizzlewood Coast meta. I dont see the worth. Gathering seems like a waste of time. I would never put these at the same level as Shared Inventory Slots for example.
Lounge Passkey Tip: You can also buy the 2 week lounge passkeys for 4 black lion statuettes (all except Lily of the Elon I believe), if you're on the fence about spending the gems on the permanent versions and want to "preview" them.
Ah yes, as a newcomer I feel overwhelmed and also kinda disappointed by how many items exist in the cash shop.. considering getting all the expansions and living world seasons but there is even more I would have to get for convenient gameplay? Seems kinda crazy :/
But I crave a new mmorpg. WoW and ffxiv can not scratch that itch of mine anymore.
You're able to play without any of this stuff and still really enjoy the game. I did for years. And because you're able to buy gems with gold, you've always got an alternative to spending real money to get some of these items if you want to.
I'm not tryin to be harsh but this video automatically started after another video. At first I thought it was a infomercial, until I realized you talked about gw2.
That definitely is the tone, isn't it? The good news is I'm not paid by anet and fully support spending gold instead of real money for this stuff.
@@abree107 Still great video though. Thanks
Great video, man! I'm coming back to the game from way back near launch. I really enjoy a lot of the QoL changes ANet made. They dropped loads of things that made me leave to begin with, so I went whole hog and bought the Ultimate since it's B2P. I've been looking for insight in to how to spend my gems frugally. This video is just what I was looking for. Thanks!
150k gold bruh
Worth noting that, since this video came out, the Recharging Teleport to Friend has been reduced from a 1 hour cooldown to a mere 10 minute cooldown. It is much more useful now, and should at least be given some consideration as a potential investment, especially if you often find yourself on a character without any waypoints in a map you need to get to.
"I like to skimp on waypoint cost"
- The guy with 150k gold
Look man that 3s savings over the course of 5 million waypoints adds up.
@@abree107 I'm sure, but it was just funny since I'm out here with barely any gold waypointing all over the map.
Maybe that's why I don't have any.
@@Jmvars It's just another one of those little things to think about.
what the hell ? 150,000g ☠
i thought this video was a generic one, but u actually explained why we should buy them, thanks.
off topic, but do you recommend to buy the infinite gathering tools with black lion statuettes?
I prefer in-depth guides to superficial ones so that's what I tend to make.
The infinite gathering tools are technically the best "practical value" you can get with statuettes, but obviously most people care about those juicy cosmetics. I've acquired 2 sets of gathering tools with statuettes, so I'd definitely recommend it if you don't have any black lion exclusive skins you'd rather spend them on. The only downside is you don't get glyphs with those.
@@abree107 thanks
just ruined myself yesterday to get mistlock sanctuary, passkey,.... I'm happy to hear I did well :'(
Update on the Recharging Teleport to Friend! It charges in the 10 minutes now!
It's a crime how few subscribers you have. Thank you for your work.
Now that the port to friend has been buffed and recharges every 10 minutes do you have any new takes on it?
I've personally only used maybe 20% of the consumable ones I've gotten from birthdays and most of those were only because I wanted alt characters on specific maps. I'm a pretty proactive player though. If you're really casual and a lazy player, it's probably worth buying after you've gone through most of your consumable ones? I'm just not the target customer.
You need to work on your volume man you almost blow out my speakers when I start one of your videos.
I suppose that one comes down to personal preference. I tend to prefer having the option of turning something down over not being able to adequately turn it up. The funny thing is that my voice is quieter than the default settings on spotify when it comes to the audio in the video file I upload. TH-cam does automatically mess with the audio in an attempt to normalize it, but that should theoretically fix any problems for you and make me quieter.
Oh thank god I didn't buy any traps. I'm a newbie. This video was very helpful. I'd add one thing to the Black Lion Keys. I got one and found a chest or something and it didn't have anything I wanted so I sold it for almost 1000g and put that into gems (bought the volatile unbreakables... a day after they were off sale but still.) I've still got gems for rolling more keys during the next big event.
It's better to farm them. Level 10 personal quest every Sunday. But they CAN pay out. So if you have nothing else you really want...
Recharging tele to friends is nice now that we dont get many single use ones. Course i got the recharge one on sell and just threw it in a shared slot to save on inventory. Course only do that if like me made most the leggies wanted got a lot of gem store items wanted and just grabbing stuff might use. I have been deleting the single use ones now to simply save on space.
Well you have 4 bank tabs and made all that money. I have never gotten a pass of any kind and just go to the PvP lobby to get to my bank.
I'm not a huge fan of how far things are from one another in the PvP lobby. Mistlock let me flip while commanding trains with almost no downtime and also was super convenient as someone that used to do 4+ hours of fractals several days a week. It's a really good quality of life for only 600-1000 gems, but if you don't do any crafting or fractals, it's not like it's a functional upgrade that you'd be missing out on.
One place I think people forget about is Obsidian Sanctum in the wvw panel. Has vendor, bank, TP, laurel merch, all right by waypoint to hop in and out back to where you were if you want a good free option.
@@JayRandomness07 only issue is you'd lose some participation doing that
@@abree107 i will think about the passes as a possibility. I may go for the WvW one over other choices. I do like Lily of the Elon as a way to get to PoF maps but with EoD out my reasons to go to PoF at all is so small.
@@BigCuddleMonster Fair enough. For 300g or less it's a great value compared to permanent contracts.
how about the ultimate edition upgrades?
They don't really provide anything functional. Go for them if you want the cosmetics that come with them.
why silver matic is the least usefull? :(
I see it has 25% chance for rare items
You only use it for rare gear, which is only a small portion of the total gear you salvage. For most players, they can make Mystic salvage kits instead and it will be cheaper per salvage than the silverfed kit is. Eventually you'll run out of Mystic Forge stones, but for a lot of players, that will take months or even years of active play.
There's also the fact that you can carry around 2-3 master salvage kits if you have no other options left, and it won't bog down your inventory much, but if you're missing copperfed, you'll be hauling around 10 or more basic salvage kits to salvage what you get in a few hour play session, and that clogs up your inventory a lot.
To summarize:
- Copperfed provides massive quality of life for any type of player and saves tons of inventory space.
- Runecrafter's is just the best kit for green items and there's no equivalent kit available through other methods. It's a straight up upgrade to your accounts income.
- Silverfed provides a small or moderate quality of life, depending on if you have forge stones or not. It costs more than using a Mystic kit, and only marginally less than using a master kit. Still okay to have, but definitely not as helpful as the others, particularly if you still have forge stones available.
@@abree107Thanks for the explanation! I have some difficult understanding english video while it's easier for writing.
Unfortunately i found this video after already have bought the silver thinking would be good for me...
@@federicobenincà it's still good to have for later!