Guild Wars 2

Hi Tyrians,

I am going to buy some gems using golds. What is/are the most reasonable gem store item(s) to get first? The following is the list of items I am considering (order matters):

1. Living World Season 2
2. Bag slot (just realized yesterday it is not account bound, why Anet, why???)
3. Bank slot expansion (I have already made a personal guild to store non-soul-bound and non-account-bound items)
4. Character slot (I have only completed my first character, so not going to get it until my fifth character is done, unless there are some good suggestions)
5. Spend the gold on something else, not in gem store.

Note: I am not looking at cosmetic items yet, not until I have extra golds to spare. I don’t mind inconvenience. As long as it is not too troublesome, I will not spend my precious golds to get a make my life slightly easier (I will consider if it will make my life MUCH easier/it will help me farm gold faster).

Other than the LS season pack, all other gem store itens are conveniences or cosmetics.

So…, if you don’t wanna any of those 2, your best bet is just get the ls s2. I personally find the copper-fed salvage A LOT useful, since I farm a lot and it saves me way soo many time/bag slots.

The unlimited gathering tools are also a very good option, since it will save a lot of frustation from seeing dar orichalcum node and not have a right gathering tool, or when you trash a high cost gathering tool to get some trash material.

None of those are going to make you earn money faster (Most likely you’ll ned years to get back the money you invested), but are things that surely makes life a lot easier.

Living World Season 2 is definitely worth it in my opinion. Especially if you have someone to team up with to play it.

After that I’d suggest permanent gathering tools, copper fed salvage and a bag slot. If you really need more account wide storage right now then make your empty character slots into mules and use them to hold stuff.

MauricioCezar.2673:

Other than the LS season pack, all other gem store itens are conveniences or cosmetics.

So…, if you don’t wanna any of those 2, your best bet is just get the ls s2. I personally find the copper-fed salvage A LOT useful, since I farm a lot and it saves me way soo many time/bag slots.

The unlimited gathering tools are also a very good option, since it will save a lot of frustation from seeing dar orichalcum node and not have a right gathering tool, or when you trash a high cost gathering tool to get some trash material.

None of those are going to make you earn money faster (Most likely you’ll ned years to get back the money you invested), but are things that surely makes life a lot easier.

I did consider copper-fed salvage tool, but then I realize I can always enter heart of the mists to buy/sell at the merchant. So, not too useful to me now. Or are there maps that I can’t enter HoM like usual?

Unlimited gathering tools sound very useful and will make my life MUCH easier, until I found out it is 1000 gems PER gathering tool. 1280 gems can buy me a mini game expansion (LW S2), 1000 per gathering tool is way too expansive for me now. I might consider it later when I get all my necessary things, like LW S2, bank slots, and bag slots.

Aye.8392:

Living World Season 2 is definitely worth it in my opinion. Especially if you have someone to team up with to play it.

After that I’d suggest permanent gathering tools, copper fed salvage and a bag slot. If you really need more account wide storage right now then make your empty character slots into mules and use them to hold stuff.

No, I don’t have anyone to team up with T.T
All my friends who I recommended to play GW2 quit after a few weeks :C

Yeah, that’s what I am planning to do too. Make extra characters to hold stuffs for me. So, bank slots is not important for me now.

this is my problem as well. I was/am willing to spend some cash, however, nothing is reasonable. Not spending a 1000 gems per gathering tool. Not paying for the extra bag slot PER character when I have 6. etc

edit and personally I hate LS so there’s not even that for me

Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic and extra bag slots are essential gem store items. Maybe character slots if you an altoholic.

Probably bank.

It’s shared across all chars and you get more spaces than you would from an extra bag.

Living World Season 2.
You get:
-A great storyline that prepares you for HoT.
- A load of replayable content that can be repeated on multiple characters for repeat rewards (including champ bags, materials and BL key).
-The ability to craft Mawdrey (an ascended backpiece with some unique skins)
-Luminescent gear
-Achievements

As for your other thoughts on what to buy:

-Bag slot. Most people really don’t need the extra inventory space that much. Before considering these, buy and equip 4 20-slot bags. Copper-fed salvageomatic and infinite gathering tools are also handy because they reduce the amount of salvage-kits and gathering tools you need to bring with you. If you’re still struggling for space, then you probably need to merch more often. Most people I see with extra bag slots have it on their main character for dungeon tours/fractals to hold multiple sets of gear and a load of food/potions.

-Bank slot expansion. I would try to advise against buying these as well, even though I have bought 4 of them myself. It’s very easy to clutter your bank up with trash, believing it to be useful. If you have 2 bank slots, you just clutter them both up and need a third! Put as much non-accountbound stuff as you can into a guild bank and then make an alt (with 20 slot bags) to hold the rest.

I did a bit of maths ages ago on the cost of bank expansions vs guild bank. A 50 slot guild stash, slot for slot, was much cheaper even if you directly bought the influence from the guild promoter (than buying gems with gold and buying a 30 slot-bank expansion tab).

Here’s the breakdown:

-Character slots are always good… I have a huge amount of them myself. But considering you have only created 1 char so far, I’d progress at least 3 more characters before getting more slots.

-Other recommendations would be a copper-fed salvage-o-matic and gathering tools (watchwork mining pick in particular as it can earn you some money back over time).
If you’re interested in aesthetics at low levels, buy an outfit.

LS2 is good. Characters slots are always useful if you like alts (or just to use as storage). Copper-Fed Salvage is actually way more useful than I was expecting it to be.

Crimson Clouds.4853:

Living World Season 2.
You get:
-A great storyline that prepares you for HoT.
- A load of replayable content that can be repeated on multiple characters for repeat rewards (including champ bags, materials and BL key).
-The ability to craft Mawdrey (an ascended backpiece with some unique skins)
-Luminescent gear
-Achievements

As for your other thoughts on what to buy:

-Bag slot. Most people really don’t need the extra inventory space that much. Before considering these, buy and equip 4 20-slot bags. Copper-fed salvageomatic and infinite gathering tools are also handy because they reduce the amount of salvage-kits and gathering tools you need to bring with you. If you’re still struggling for space, then you probably need to merch more often. Most people I see with extra bag slots have it on their main character for dungeon tours/fractals to hold multiple sets of gear and a load of food/potions.

-Bank slot expansion. I would try to advise against buying these as well, even though I have bought 4 of them myself. It’s very easy to clutter your bank up with trash, believing it to be useful. If you have 2 bank slots, you just clutter them both up and need a third! Put as much non-accountbound stuff as you can into a guild bank and then make an alt (with 20 slot bags) to hold the rest.

I did a bit of maths ages ago on the cost of bank expansions vs guild bank. A 50 slot guild stash, slot for slot, was much cheaper even if you directly bought the influence from the guild promoter (than buying gems with gold and buying a 30 slot-bank expansion tab).

Here’s the breakdown:

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-A stash (50 bank slots) requires architecture research level II and a stash to be built, requiring a total 2,500 influence points or 50g if bought only with gold, or 28 guild commendations and 1g 41s 12c.
This equates to 1g per bank slot or 0.56 guild commendations and 2s 82c each.

-A treasure trove (an extra 100 bank slots) requires architecture research level IV- totalling an additional 20,000 influence points after buying a stash. This equates to an additional 400g if bought only with gold, or 200 guild commendations and 10g 8s.
This equates to 4g per bank slot, or 2 guild commendations and 21s 60c each.

-A deep cave (an extra 100 bank slots) requires architecture level V- totalling an additional 30,000 influence points after buying a stash. This equates to an additional 600g if bought only with gold, or 300 guild commendations and 15g 12s.
This equates to 6g per bank slot, or 3 guild commendations and 30s 24c each.

-(right now) A 600 gem bank-slot expansion equates to 108g 27s 61c. That’s 3g 60s 92c each slot.

-Character slots are always good… I have a huge amount of them myself. But considering you have only created 1 char so far, I’d progress at least 3 more characters before getting more slots.

-Other recommendations would be a copper-fed salvage-o-matic and gathering tools (watchwork mining pick in particular as it can earn you some money back over time).
If you’re interested in aesthetics at low levels, buy an outfit.

Thank you for your detail explanation in LW S2. I put it as no.1 in my list because I think my game is not complete without it. With your explanation, now I want it more, thank you.