Guild Wars 2

Can we please lift the 12 bank tabs to something higher or remove the cap all together?

As someone who has played for 7114 hours over 1000+ days, I have not only capped out the 12 bank tab upgrades but I have also filled it completely and now have to use some of my characters and personal guilds as bank tabs.

I don’t know if many other people have this issue.

(side note- would also be nice if character A could take out character B items from bank to salvage or help when trying to reorganize your bank)

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with that you feel you would absolutely need and would not qualify as being a hoarder?

you do know, every slot takes up data on a server, which is then multiply per account.

TJgalon.5012:

you do know, every slot takes up data on a server, which is then multiply per account.

It really isn’t all that much compared to the size of everything. Server storage isn’t expensive relative to the cost of running a game.

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

I can see it happening easily. I’d be in the same boat as the OP, if it didn’t go the more economical rout of buying character slots to use as mules.

OP, you should really consider using mules. Much higher space/gem ratio if you fill them up with the cheap 20-slot candy corn bags.

12 bank tabs ain’t enough for you, seriously? I played since launch and I only kept 2 full tabs. You don’t need to keep all the stuff, throw them out or put in personal guild bank or your alts.

Wolf Rayet.4073:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

I can see it happening easily. I’d be in the same boat as the OP, if it didn’t go the more economical rout of buying character slots to use as mules.

OP, you should really consider using mules. Much higher space/gem ratio if you fill them up with the cheap 20-slot candy corn bags.

Only if you have a hoarding problem.

As far as caps go, I don’t see any reason that it couldn’t be increased.

Ayrilana.1396:

Only if you have a hoarding problem.

As far as caps go, I don’t see any reason that it couldn’t be increased.

I prefer to call it investing

And you’re right.

Wolf Rayet.4073:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

I can see it happening easily. I’d be in the same boat as the OP, if it didn’t go the more economical rout of buying character slots to use as mules.

OP, you should really consider using mules. Much higher space/gem ratio if you fill them up with the cheap 20-slot candy corn bags.

I do that plus I have personal guild banks and it’s really frustrating that I have to go through 4-5 characters to find 1 thing. that frustration inspired this post in the first place :’(

Tuthan.3250:

12 bank tabs ain’t enough for you, seriously? I played since launch and I only kept 2 full tabs. You don’t need to keep all the stuff, throw them out or put in personal guild bank or your alts.

Good for you but some people like to store things for later use.

As for alts, having to switch between characters to move things around is highly annoying.

If someone wants more tabs why not? It’s none of your business.

I have 12 tabs and they’re mostly full. I like to organize my junk per tab. Makes it much easier to find stuff.

sephiroth.4217:

Wolf Rayet.4073:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

I can see it happening easily. I’d be in the same boat as the OP, if it didn’t go the more economical rout of buying character slots to use as mules.

OP, you should really consider using mules. Much higher space/gem ratio if you fill them up with the cheap 20-slot candy corn bags.

I do that plus I have personal guild banks and it’s really frustrating that I have to go through 4-5 characters to find 1 thing. that frustration inspired this post in the first place :’(

I can help you with an idea to organize your bank, personal guild bank, alt better.

Reg bank: put any important items that you need mostly when you play

Personal Guild bank: put all important items that you don’t use it often, most valuable items, ect.

Alts: put all the crafting mats, Ascended rings, fractal skins, ect

Most importantly, delete any item that you never use again. If it has no value, say bye bye to it!

Hope you can organize your stuff better with the idea

If 12 tabs of bank space, 65 characters, and 7 inventory bag slots per character aren’t enough, then we have a hoarding problem rather than a storage problem. Start getting rid of stuff.

Tuthan.3250:

sephiroth.4217:

Wolf Rayet.4073:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

I can see it happening easily. I’d be in the same boat as the OP, if it didn’t go the more economical rout of buying character slots to use as mules.

OP, you should really consider using mules. Much higher space/gem ratio if you fill them up with the cheap 20-slot candy corn bags.

I do that plus I have personal guild banks and it’s really frustrating that I have to go through 4-5 characters to find 1 thing. that frustration inspired this post in the first place :’(

I can help you with an idea to organize your bank, personal guild bank, alt better.

Reg bank: put any important items that you need mostly when you play

Personal Guild bank: put all important items that you don’t use it often, most valuable items, ect.

Alts: put all the crafting mats, Ascended rings, fractal skins, ect

Most importantly, delete any item that you never use again. If it has no value, say bye bye to it!

Hope you can organize your stuff better with the idea

No thanks. I like my method. I want more tabs.

bank tabs galore!
more more more!

on a side note, please stop with the "you know storage issues / coding issues " apology for arena net before they actually say there is a issue,
be constructive, there’s no reason on earth that someone that does not belong to arena net tell us that something is a issue for them.

it’s the 21th century, when someone complains of software issues being impossible to implement we have a problem, especially when the creator of a thing complains he cannot expand and develop it some more.

sephiroth.4217:

Wolf Rayet.4073:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

I can see it happening easily. I’d be in the same boat as the OP, if it didn’t go the more economical rout of buying character slots to use as mules.

OP, you should really consider using mules. Much higher space/gem ratio if you fill them up with the cheap 20-slot candy corn bags.

I do that plus I have personal guild banks and it’s really frustrating that I have to go through 4-5 characters to find 1 thing. that frustration inspired this post in the first place :’(

I use gw2.efficiency.com. I can search all my bags in a couple of seconds for anything I’m looking for.

Tuthan.3250:

sephiroth.4217:

Wolf Rayet.4073:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

I can see it happening easily. I’d be in the same boat as the OP, if it didn’t go the more economical rout of buying character slots to use as mules.

OP, you should really consider using mules. Much higher space/gem ratio if you fill them up with the cheap 20-slot candy corn bags.

I do that plus I have personal guild banks and it’s really frustrating that I have to go through 4-5 characters to find 1 thing. that frustration inspired this post in the first place :’(

I can help you with an idea to organize your bank, personal guild bank, alt better.

Reg bank: put any important items that you need mostly when you play

Personal Guild bank: put all important items that you don’t use it often, most valuable items, ect.

Alts: put all the crafting mats, Ascended rings, fractal skins, ect

Most importantly, delete any item that you never use again. If it has no value, say bye bye to it!

Hope you can organize your stuff better with the idea

I would not recommend putting any valuable items in a Guild Bank, personal or otherwise. If you should, heaven forbid, ever have your account compromised and find yourself in need of an Account Restoration, nothing from any kind of Guild Bank will be restored.

I keep anything valuable in my personal bank always; other items of little worth (to me) go to my personal Guild bank.

Good luck.

I have like 60 character slots. I keep a text document on where I store my items. So it isn’t so bad.

OP: I can see A-net increasing the amount of bank tabs available, but not lifting the limit entirely. If they increased it by say, three, would you be happy? Or would you quickly fill it up again and land yourself in the same situation?

I do not have 12 bank tabs- I believe I have 6 or 7. However, I find that with every tab expansion I buy, the “threshold” of whether the item should be kept or not lowers. In other words, the more tabs I buy, the more easily it fills with unnecessary items.

I’m not sure if you are looking for advice, but hopefully this will benefit other people:

-Consider each bank slot as something that has to be paid off, or requires rent. Make a note of how many gems/gold you paid for the tab expansion, and then divide by the number of slots. If the item in the slot is not going to generate the income to cover this “rent”, or doesn’t hold enough sentimental value to validate it, consider selling or deleting it.

-I realised that a lot of my bank slots are filled with items required for crafting certain things, like the spinal blades backpiece and some mystic forge exotics. They’d been hanging around in there for ages, and I realised that I could reduce the space they occupied just by completing the item, or making the next stage of it.

-If there are a lot of similar items taking up space, consider using a mule for them. I have a bunch of ascended stuff (rings etc) that I shoved on one alt, another alt has a load of skins on them. Grouping similar things together helps you to remember where they are.

-I have two guild banks which I share with my boyfriend. I don’t put anything of considerable value in there, just things that take up a lot of space. Usually stacks of cheap materials, or anything that I want to keep but I don’t need for it to be so accessible.

-Try and keep consumables on your character. Revive orbs, repair cannisters, merchant expresses etc… they are all next to useless in your bank tabs gathering dust.

sephiroth.4217:

Can we please lift the 12 bank tabs to something higher or remove the cap all together?

As someone who has played for 7114 hours over 1000+ days, I have not only capped out the 12 bank tab upgrades but I have also filled it completely and now have to use some of my characters and personal guilds as bank tabs.

I don’t know if many other people have this issue.

(side note- would also be nice if character A could take out character B items from bank to salvage or help when trying to reorganize your bank)

I don’t have 12 bank tabs, I think I have 5 or 6, so I have to use characters for storage. To remember what I have on each one I put specific items on each bank char, for example one of my chars is full of Dragonite Ore (all slots), another has all the ascended trinkets and rings I can’t bother to sell (wait for salvaging in HoT), another rares I want to forge etc. Then I use an excel file to know which character has what so I don’t search

It’s not ideal of course. Removing the cap is one option but a way to add “bags” for specific things would also work nicely. For example, imagine a bag that holds only weapons, or a bag that holds extra materials. Thos bags would take 1 bank/inventory slot but be complete bags inside. Saves space by grouping similar items in one small space.

Everyone complaining about how OP can run out of 12 bank tabs worth of space is either an extrem casual, or has only 1-2 characters and/or does not plan ahead longer than 1 week worth of content. I’m currently sitting at about 9 bank tabs full and I already cleaned house about 4 weeks back (and I’d easily have 2 more tabs full if the announcement about ascended rings being salvagable came earlier). Let’s do a breakdown:

- 2 bank tabs full of ascended rings (would have been 4) – why? Because salvage of those rings is coming soon according to Anet
- 1/2 bank tab full of ascended amulets and accessory
- 2.5 bank tabs full of gear – 1 full set of gear takes up exactly 1/2 a bank tab worth of space. I have Rabid and Soldier gear for my Main (Mersmer) for WvW. Soldier gear for my Guardian and Warrior for WvW. Condition damage swap out gear for my Thief.
- 1.5 bank tabs full of Permanent Transformation tonics, black lion items, 12 BLC salvage kits etc.
- 2 bank tabs full of items like Black Lion Skins, recepies, Minis, investments, etc.
- 1 bank tab full of random stuff that needs short store time

= 9.5 bank tabs full minimum.

That is NOT counting the aproximately 160 bag slots worth of Bloodstone Dust (I’ve already made 600+ bars), Dragonite Ore and Empyreal fragments.

I’m sitting at about 2,500 hours of played times over 1,000 days. Now tell me, what would you cut out. I can absolutely see someone with 7,100+ hours of played time to have even more things that varant holding on to.

Cyninja.2954:

Everyone complaining about how OP can run out of 12 bank tabs worth of space is either an extrem casual, or has only 1-2 characters and/or does not plan ahead longer than 1 week worth of content. I’m currently sitting at about 9 bank tabs full and I already cleaned house about 4 weeks back (and I’d easily have 2 more tabs full if the announcement about ascended rings being salvagable came earlier). Let’s do a breakdown:

- 2 bank tabs full of ascended rings (would have been 4) – why? Because salvage of those rings is coming soon according to Anet
- 1/2 bank tab full of ascended amulets and accessory
- 2.5 bank tabs full of gear – 1 full set of gear takes up exactly 1/2 a bank tab worth of space. I have Rabid and Soldier gear for my Main (Mersmer) for WvW. Soldier gear for my Guardian and Warrior for WvW. Condition damage swap out gear for my Thief.
- 1.5 bank tabs full of Permanent Transformation tonics, black lion items, 12 BLC salvage kits etc.
- 2 bank tabs full of items like Black Lion Skins, recepies, Minis, investments, etc.
- 1 bank tab full of random stuff that

= 9.5 bank tabs full minimum.

That is NOT counting the aproximately 160 bag slots worth of Bloodstone Dust (I’ve already made 600+ bars), Dragonite Ore and Empyreal fragments.

I’m sitting at about 2,500 hours of played times over 1,000 days. Now tell me, what would you cut out. I can absolutely see someone with 7,100+ hours of played time to have even more things that varant holding on to.

I think your opening statement is a bit generalised, but hey.
I am certainly not an extreme casual, I have 20 character slots and I’ve been playing since launch. I’ve been playing for 4k+ hours over the past 1,100+ days.

I have 6 bank tabs, most of them are sitting at about 3/4 full.

I keep all of my ascended stuff that I’m not using on one alt. She’s getting pretty full, but I don’t have 20 slot bags on her, so I can easily make more space.

My tonics and toys I keep on my main, so I can use them (because sitting in my bank they’d be a waste).

Any spare gear sets I have, I keep on the character they belong to, or would use most often.

My BL salvage kits are all spread out across my characters, with 3 on my main and a couple on my PvP character so he can salvage the dungeon exotics he gets. All my other chars have one each. Saves a bit of space.

Most of my BL items sit in my bank, admittedly. Some of them are on my characters, like revive orbs for my JP mesmer and repair cannisters for my fractal main.

I use my ascended materials on a regular basis. I refine them regularly (as I am making every ascended weapon to unlock every ascended skin). The leftovers get fed to my 3 eater items and if I’m still stockpiling after that, I delete it. Deleting doesn’t bother me as I can get a bunch back in a pinch.

I don’t run out of inventory space on my characters either. I use infinite gathering and salvaging tools, which I swap from my main to a different character if I’ll be playing them for a little while.

I like saving stuff, but I don’t want to have a huge amount of clutter and stuff I’ll never use.

So it all comes down to personal preference and storage habits. I’d much rather throw something away that probably won’t be used and face the threat of possibly regretting it if it becomes useful again. I play so often that possibly losing out on a couple of gold or a few minutes of my time is worth having as little clutter as possible.

Crimson Clouds.4853:

Cyninja.2954:

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I think your opening statement is a bit generalised, but hey.
I am certainly not an extreme casual, I have 20 character slots and I’ve been playing since launch. I’ve been playing for 4k+ hours over the past 1,100+ days.

I have 6 bank tabs, most of them are sitting at about 3/4 full.

I keep all of my ascended stuff that I’m not using on one alt. She’s getting pretty full, but I don’t have 20 slot bags on her, so I can easily make more space.

My tonics and toys I keep on my main, so I can use them (because sitting in my bank they’d be a waste).

Any spare gear sets I have, I keep on the character they belong to, or would use most often.

My BL salvage kits are all spread out across my characters, with 3 on my main and a couple on my PvP character so he can salvage the dungeon exotics he gets. All my other chars have one each. Saves a bit of space.

Most of my BL items sit in my bank, admittedly. Some of them are on my characters, like revive orbs for my JP mesmer and repair cannisters for my fractal main.

I use my ascended materials on a regular basis. I refine them regularly (as I am making every ascended weapon to unlock every ascended skin). The leftovers get fed to my 3 eater items and if I’m still stockpiling after that, I delete it. Deleting doesn’t bother me as I can get a bunch back in a pinch.

I don’t run out of inventory space on my characters either. I use infinite gathering and salvaging tools, which I swap from my main to a different character if I’ll be playing them for a little while.

I like saving stuff, but I don’t want to have a huge amount of clutter and stuff I’ll never use.

So it all comes down to personal preference and storage habits. I’d much rather throw something away that probably won’t be used and face the threat of possibly regretting it if it becomes useful again. I play so often that possibly losing out on a couple of gold or a few minutes of my time is worth having as little clutter as possible.

Everyone has a different approach. I like running Mystic Salvage Kits and keeping the BLC ones for high value items, hence why I was up to almost 20 at a time.

In essence though, all you did was transfer part of what me and probably TC keep in their bank on alts instead of your bank. Which is absolutely viable. But how many people actually have 20 characters slots to do that? Probably just as many as people who have 12 bank slots, meaning not that many.

Fact is, it’s not hard to fill up ones bank with only essentials even when not hoarding. Especially when holding on to 1-2 bank tabs worth of items to sell in the future. Tons more if one holds on to every single toy and junk item thrown our way from Anet.

Cyninja.2954:

Crimson Clouds.4853:

Cyninja.2954:

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Everyone has a different approach. I like running Mystic Salvage Kits and keeping the BLC ones for high value items, hence why I was up to almost 20 at a time.

In essence though, all you did was transfer part of what me and probably TC keep in their bank on alts instead of your bank. Which is absolutely viable. But how many people actually have 20 characters slots to do that? Probably just as many as people who have 12 bank slots, meaning not that many.

Fact is, it’s not hard to fill up ones bank with only essentials even when not hoarding. Especially when holding on to 1-2 bank tabs worth of items to sell in the future. Tons more if one holds on to every single toy and junk item thrown our way from Anet.

I have 20 characters, but only 2 are used as mules. Across my 16 level 80s each has a black lion salvage kit.

I could empty another 2 or 3 of my bank tabs onto another mule if I wanted to… point being, if I only used 1 main and only stuck with the initial 5 character slots, I’d still have plenty of space.

The stuff stored in my guild bank is just materials, which I could’ve easily sold once they filled up my material collections. I have cheap storage space for them, which is why I’m hoarding them.

I don’t see the point in holding non-essential items in my bank though. If I’m not going to use an item (or check its TP value) then it should go to an alt. Ascended rings, for example- I’m holding them on an alt so I can salvage them when the time comes, but for me, there is no point cluttering something I’ll look at frequently with items that I won’t use.

So yeah, I still kind of believe that a lack of bank space is a problem caused by an avoidable behaviour. I totally understand the notion of keeping as much as you can, it’s driven into us and is standard mmo/rpg behaviour. But I still feel it is easy to prioritise and rank items on importance, and thus order bank/guild bank/alts to hold items accordingly.

And this comes from me, a player who does struggle with a bit of an in-game hoarding attitude. I turn to my boyfriend and say that I need another bank tab, and he tells me “no you don’t, silly” and points at all the things that could be deleted because they have no value/are never used, or other things that are useful (but not now) that can be put somewhere else. The difficulty is trying to work out a baseline of intrinsic usefulness/value to then order the bank upon- once you’re happy to let go one fairly useless item, another 10 equally as useless ones can follow.

bank tab = gems = $$
Anet should remove all restrictions on account upgrades. Like:
- bank tab
- crafting license
- charslot maximum
- char bags
- material extension
- whatever I forgot

All the money they could earn! About the server space argument: A long time paying customer is way better for server space than spacewaste from f2p accs.

While they’re at it, please remove the limit on storage expanders since the 1500 limit isn’t enough and there’s no real reason to have a cap. I’d probably buy up to at least 3000 most likely 5000.

If they removed the limited on crafting licenses, I’d buy another 4 to have all 8 crafting professions on each.

If they increase the character slot limit to at least 90, I would also be buying another 45 character slots and 3 bag slots per.

I’d like bag slots to at least go to 10 since 160 is kind of a weird number to leave it at. 200 looks a lot better.

all of these limit are part in due to software and hardware limitation, too. That why sometimes it not as easy as to just increases the space, sometimes you just have to go, do I need to save this.

I have 3 bank guilds, some bank chars and max bank slots. Its not enough.

I agree with OP I have 12 bank slots, 3 personal guild banks and max material storage and I’d love more bank slots or material storage!
What do I use it all for?
Guild banks – 1 for extra mats (new legendaries are coming what will we need for crafting them?) 1 for Exotics and skins and the last for extra minis / investments and yellows to throw in mystic forge, I like to use the MF in bulk lots and I’ll do the same when I get enough exotics stored.
My banks tabs : 2 for skins / account based exotics, 3 with crafting gear / recipes, 1 with food /potions from leveling -slowly being used, 1 dragoninte ore with Princess lol, 1 with ascended gear, 1 with keys and MF materials, 1 with gathering tools (thanks to last years frost boxes) and salvage kits, 1 with boosters and the last has the account bound extras like torches and endless potions spare skins.

I shall have to look at the cost of extra chars then as I didn’t think that was cost effective but it might just be, thanks for the idea from another poster above

So please Anet let us buy more space from you

Emma J.1940:

I agree with OP I have 12 bank slots, 3 personal guild banks and max material storage and I’d love more bank slots or material storage!
What do I use it all for?
Guild banks – 1 for extra mats (new legendaries are coming what will we need for crafting them?) 1 for Exotics and skins and the last for extra minis / investments and yellows to throw in mystic forge, I like to use the MF in bulk lots and I’ll do the same when I get enough exotics stored.
My banks tabs : 2 for skins / account based exotics, 3 with crafting gear / recipes, 1 with food /potions from leveling -slowly being used, 1 dragoninte ore with Princess lol, 1 with ascended gear, 1 with keys and MF materials, 1 with gathering tools (thanks to last years frost boxes) and salvage kits, 1 with boosters and the last has the account bound extras like torches and endless potions spare skins.

I shall have to look at the cost of extra chars then as I didn’t think that was cost effective but it might just be, thanks for the idea from another poster above

So please Anet let us buy more space from you

figure it like this. A bank tab is 600gem, 30 slots. A player tab is 800 gem, though you can with maybe 50extra G, more or less get 4 20 slot bag so a character can hold 100 items. A player is better over a bank tab, but bank tab offer the convince of being there for all characters.

Why fight something that has little impact on you?
(well aside from a bit of dev time to make sure everything works and doesn’t delete your stuff, but the option of more tabs doesn’t hurt you in any way.)
Don’t need more bank space? Great, good for you, you’ve saved money.
Some of us could really use it though.
And the argument that it would take up too much server space is silly frankly.
I can have 67? characters now.
I can get them all 7 20 slot bags.
They then each hold more than a bank tab, I’m feeling lazy and dont want to do the math, but its a lot more per toon.
In fact strictly speaking mules are far more cost effective space wise than bank tabs, but bank tabs are far more convenient, that’s why they’re more expensive.
So tabs pretty much have to take up less space than characters because 1 its far less storage per, and 2 it doesn’t have all the character info with it.

It’s like saying, well I only need 5 toons so no one should have the option of making more.

It’s the convenience mostly, I have a few mules and they’re a pain in the butt, even, as someone mentioned, using gw2efficiency to find stuff having to swap across 4 toons to get what I need is annoying.

Really if it isn’t a client based, sever based, reason for it, I see no point not to allow someone to spend $500 on bank space so they can lay out 4 different armor sets and a full compliment of weapons, for each character, have room for crafting overflows, collectables, fun stuff, food…you name it.

Some people like to have things ready to go in a neat orderly fashion, and would be willing to pay to do this…so why not.

Though if I’m not mistaken I recall blizzard talking about having too much inventory and bank space in diablo 3 having negative repercussions on how the game ran, could be they don’t want people lagging in bank or could be something more.

Think its all determined by how the game is structured.

Now that I could see them having a problem with, all of it loaded at once.
So maybe add a page system so you load like 5 tabs at a time?
Which would be significantly different in dev time requirements vs just upping the limit a few tabs admittedly

I suspect item storage is at such a premium because the devs don’t want us sitting on massive quantities of materials. If they force us to divest ourselves of unnecessary items as we get them, then they don’t need to worry so much about potential market crashes if everyone suddenly decides to dump a tremendous amount of, say, Platinum Ore simultaneously. The game is supposed to be about the gameplay, after all, not raw, pointless acquisition.

“I’m running out of space! There’s simply not enough space!”

“Well, why do you have 10 stacks of bloodstone dust, 10 slots of random green gear, a bunch of halloween/wintersday materials, and what are those, dungeon keys and sand?”

“That’s not the point! I need all of this stuff! Eventually! I’m pretty sure! Like mostly sure!”

I guarantee I could go through your entire bank, personal guild bank, and characters and free up at least 50% of space.

It literally is a hoarder mentality.

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

I have two banktabs full. I plan on getting a third to put my bloodstone dust (desperately needs a demotion formula that would convert like 50 bloodstone dust into 100 crystalline dust or whatever) and yet more collected extra stuff in. I could always expand the mat holding more, but that’s 800 gems per upgrade.

Draknar.5748:

“I’m running out of space! There’s simply not enough space!”

“Well, why do you have 10 stacks of bloodstone dust, 10 slots of random green gear, a bunch of halloween/wintersday materials, and what are those, dungeon keys and sand?”

“That’s not the point! I need all of this stuff! Eventually! I’m pretty sure! Like mostly sure!”

I guarantee I could go through your entire bank, personal guild bank, and characters and free up at least 50% of space.

It literally is a hoarder mentality.

I remember selling large swaths of ancient wood and other collected logs for gold. I do a lot of mat farming, but I read that ascended weapons will need lots of those mats. Because I wanted some gold and free up space I have to start at square one again. Don’t even get me started on ecto selling.

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

Anything and everything that doesn’t allow stacking.

TJgalon.5012:

you do know, every slot takes up data on a server, which is then multiply per account.

That’s ANet’s issue. They control collections and what can get stored and stacked. They have already generated extra income via players picking up the extra bank tabs. Take cooking as an example, why aren’t the items constructed and used in other recipes in the collections tab? Sorry but the server admins and coding admins need to have space discussions.

uhohhotdog.3598:

Tuthan.3250:

12 bank tabs ain’t enough for you, seriously? I played since launch and I only kept 2 full tabs. You don’t need to keep all the stuff, throw them out or put in personal guild bank or your alts.

Good for you but some people like to store things for later use.

As for alts, having to switch between characters to move things around is highly annoying.

If someone wants more tabs why not? It’s none of your business.

I have 12 tabs and they’re mostly full. I like to organize my junk per tab. Makes it much easier to find stuff.

Agree, for those opposed, why are you opposed. How does this impact your game play if other players paying for extra bank tabs?

TheGrimm.5624:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

Anything and everything that doesn’t allow stacking.

The question was more along the line of how and why someone would need that much space unless they were a serious hoarder (ignoring items being held as investments).

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

If 12 tabs of bank space, 65 characters, and 7 inventory bag slots per character aren’t enough, then we have a hoarding problem rather than a storage problem. Start getting rid of stuff.

But why do we have to buy character spots to act as storage, that the point of storage expansions and their purpose.

Ayrilana.1396:

TheGrimm.5624:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

Anything and everything that doesn’t allow stacking.

The question was more along the line of how and why someone would need that much space unless they were a serious hoarder (ignoring items being held as investments).

Investing is a major impact on this. So are items like Black Lion Salvage kits. You get even more than 1 of these and you are losing space somewhere. Get 50+ and then its even worse. Let alone if you are acquiring material for mas crafting or other activities. And yes then there is the junk or siege or boosters…fills up fast.

TheGrimm.5624:

Ayrilana.1396:

TheGrimm.5624:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

Anything and everything that doesn’t allow stacking.

The question was more along the line of how and why someone would need that much space unless they were a serious hoarder (ignoring items being held as investments).

Investing is a major impact on this. So are items like Black Lion Salvage kits. You get even more than 1 of these and you are losing space somewhere. Get 50+ and then its even worse. Let alone if you are acquiring material for mas crafting or other activities. And yes then there is the junk or siege or boosters…fills up fast.

There are people that hold onto items that they’ll likely never use.

Ayrilana.1396:

TheGrimm.5624:

Ayrilana.1396:

TheGrimm.5624:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

Anything and everything that doesn’t allow stacking.

The question was more along the line of how and why someone would need that much space unless they were a serious hoarder (ignoring items being held as investments).

Investing is a major impact on this. So are items like Black Lion Salvage kits. You get even more than 1 of these and you are losing space somewhere. Get 50+ and then its even worse. Let alone if you are acquiring material for mas crafting or other activities. And yes then there is the junk or siege or boosters…fills up fast.

There are people that hold onto items that they’ll likely never use.

My guess is that it’s a mentality brought over from other games, to some extent.
GW1 for example- you’d have plenty more bank panes/slots as standard than in GW2, which allowed for such hoarding.

Moreover, other games may not have such a quick and efficient trading post. So if you merched that stuff, it might be really difficult to buy back what I sold previously.

The TP is the reason why I don’t hoard too much tradeable stuff. I know that it doesn’t matter if I sell it now, as I can just re-buy it and get it almost instantaneously. I might lose out on a small % of gold, but for me that’s worth de-cluttering my bank. In addition to this, there might be a chance that I won’t need that stuff again, which means I’ve de-cluttered AND netted some useful gold.

Of course, I wouldn’t sell anything that I believed to have some kind of investment value.

I’m pretty sure we have a lot more bank tabs and spaces in GW2, than we had in GW(1).

Especially in material storage.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

If 12 tabs of bank space, 65 characters, and 7 inventory bag slots per character aren’t enough, then we have a hoarding problem rather than a storage problem. Start getting rid of stuff.

Characters as storage is an extremely tedious thing. Some nice apps using the API can alleviate part of the problem but character swapping is still annoying.

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

1 tab of dragonite
1 tab of black lion salvage kits …

I’d rather just use something to consume all that excess stuff. Throwing stuff away may feel premature for all we know there could be some precursor later on that needs 10,000 bloodstone dust.

Agemnon.4608:

I’d rather just use something to consume all that excess stuff. Throwing stuff away may feel premature for all we know there could be some precursor later on that needs 10,000 bloodstone dust.

If you turn them into bricks that is 25,000 dust.

Crimson Clouds.4853:

Ayrilana.1396:

TheGrimm.5624:

Ayrilana.1396:

TheGrimm.5624:

Ayrilana.1396:

What could you possibly fill 12 bank tabs with?

Anything and everything that doesn’t allow stacking.

The question was more along the line of how and why someone would need that much space unless they were a serious hoarder (ignoring items being held as investments).

Investing is a major impact on this. So are items like Black Lion Salvage kits. You get even more than 1 of these and you are losing space somewhere. Get 50+ and then its even worse. Let alone if you are acquiring material for mas crafting or other activities. And yes then there is the junk or siege or boosters…fills up fast.

There are people that hold onto items that they’ll likely never use.

My guess is that it’s a mentality brought over from other games, to some extent.
GW1 for example- you’d have plenty more bank panes/slots as standard than in GW2, which allowed for such hoarding.

Moreover, other games may not have such a quick and efficient trading post. So if you merched that stuff, it might be really difficult to buy back what I sold previously.

The TP is the reason why I don’t hoard too much tradeable stuff. I know that it doesn’t matter if I sell it now, as I can just re-buy it and get it almost instantaneously. I might lose out on a small % of gold, but for me that’s worth de-cluttering my bank. In addition to this, there might be a chance that I won’t need that stuff again, which means I’ve de-cluttered AND netted some useful gold.

Of course, I wouldn’t sell anything that I believed to have some kind of investment value.

Guild Wars 1 only has 160 slots (8 panes x 20slots) and 36 material slots. They did release one more pane for the 4th year anniversary, but I don’t think you can get it now.