Guild Wars 2

If you’re like me you probably just hit “Deposit Collectibles” and then either TP anything that doesn’t disappear from your bag or just straight up sell to vendor.

Well, last night I decided to finally clean out all of those collectibles (minus level 400 craft components—still planning on using those for 400-450). I would only recommend this once you’ve gotten all of your crafts to 400 for obvious reasons.

It took about 45min of posting on the TP because of some kind of spam limiter (I’m guessing), but after all was said and done I ended up 80g richer.

Why am I posting this? I don’t know, I thought it might be interesting. The last time I cleaned out my bank was probably last December, so it was almost a full year of items collected. No farming, just general playing and salvaging. I have quite a bit of level 400 components still, so I’m sure if I sold absolutely everything I’d be in the 100-120g range, but I would rather use those on leveling up crafting personally.

Anyone else clean out their bank collectibles completely for cash? How much did you make?

I’m one of those “maybe i’ll need this later”

I have a ton of stuff but scared to sell until they make all the crafting professions 500.. then I will maybe sell. They have a way of using stuff that I thought I would never need.

In GW1 I think of my crafting materials as my savings account. I salvage all the white items I get, put the materials in the bank and forget about them. But then if I want to make a big purchase I get them all out, sell them all (apart from ecto obviously and occasional ones I might want) and I usually have about 17k, at least once it was as high as 50k.

In GW2 I still need them because I’m slowly levelling all the crafting professions (and trying to avoid buying too many mats) but when I’m done with that I plan to start doing the same thing here too.

Last time I calculated my collectible tab value i was well beyond 2000 gold, about 2 months ago.

Most of those items in your collections hold value better than gold. Unless you intend to spend it immediately i’d advise against this.

As a dedicated hoarder, I have a lot of stuff in my Collectibles tab, plus some extra stacks of things like Mystic Coins and Ectos. If I sold them all, I’m sure I’d be a heck of a lot richer, but as Cotheer said, I don’t do it because “I might need it later”. (In the case of my Ectos, I’m definitely keeping one stack to make Ascended backpieces for my 5 characters.)

Cotheer.2806:

I’m one of those “maybe i’ll need this later”

your exactly like me, I got 4-5 cheap but uniqe exotics I’ve got sitting in my bank just collecting dust because I “might” use them so day even tho I know that will never happen. I really have to go through my bank tabs and clear out a few of them.

Solo.9027:

Most of those items in your collections hold value better than gold. Unless you intend to spend it immediately i’d advise against this.

This could be true, however, I can tell you, for example, Onyx Lodestones used to be worth 1g50s 8mos ago and are only worth 75s currently, so it isn’t always the case that they hold better value.

If you legitimately don’t need the materials anymore (i.e. all crafts are at least 400), then I say go ahead and clean house for the gold injection. What else is that stuff doing but gathering dust?