Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I’ve been playing on/off for quite some time, generally logging on for a few days at the beginning of each new living story update, playing through its story for some time, and never quite accruing enough tokens / currencies / whatever to actually purchase any of the higher-level stuff from the new update. I know many events rotate (like Wintersday and SAB), so I’ve been hanging on to basically every single thing I’ve ever found from LS. Now my inventory is clogged with stuff like Baubles, wintersday hats/socks, Found Belongings, Scarlet’s keys, power nodes…. Just all kinds of stuff.

I have a couple questions that I was hoping the forums could answer.

1) Is there a merchant somewhere that I’m missing who can just take all of these? Or does each LS update have its own person to talk to?

2) Of the LS tokens/currencies, which of them should I hold onto and which should I just get rid of?

As an aside, it would be really helpful if this was communicated better to the player. I rarely log into the forums and I don’t want to have to fish for information; I’d much rather just log on and have the game let me know what the deal is. Why can’t we get some of these tokens in wallet form like dungeon tokens (SAB baubles for example?) Or even just a tooltip for old LS items that will never be used again, saying “This item is useless now” would be very very helpful for a player like me.

Thanks.

Feonix.4790:

1) Is there a merchant somewhere that I’m missing who can just take all of these? Or does each LS update have its own person to talk to?

Depends on the currency. There is a merchant around (used to be next to the laurel dude in Lion’s Arch, I think he’s bumming around vigil keep now) that takes certain things. But those are usually the holiday festival stuff like dragon bash and Halloween items. Try to find the guy and see if he’ll take any of it.

That being said, they did mention that they’ll be implementing some kind of merchant that will be taking all those LS-type currencies. For what? We don’t really know yet, and we don’t really know when the merchant will be implemented in game. It will apparently show up in the Brisban Wildlands, so for all we know it won’t show up until the next LS starts.

Feonix.4790:

2) Of the LS tokens/currencies, which of them should I hold onto and which should I just get rid of?

I would hold onto all of them right now for the aforementioned merchant.

Furthermore, consider this to simply be a sound policy going forward, even if it does cram up your bank space.

The reason? Well, during the election event for the LS, tons of people tossed away unused voting tickets after the election was closed. However, a short while later, they allowed you to vendor the items for a sizeable amount, meaning people literally tossed away hundreds of gold (a function that is not normally possible in the game, I might add).

So it’s just an application of Murphy’s Law. If you toss some of the stuff away, you are almost certain to miss out on a very desirable reward. If you keep it, you may receive a pittance after the fact, or nothing at all.

Yamsandjams.3267:

I would hold onto all of them right now for the aforementioned merchant.

Furthermore, consider this to simply be a sound policy going forward, even if it does cram up your bank space.

The reason? Well, during the election event for the LS, tons of people tossed away unused voting tickets after the election was closed. However, a short while later, they allowed you to vendor the items for a sizeable amount, meaning people literally tossed away hundreds of gold (a function that is not normally possible in the game, I might add).

So it’s just an application of Murphy’s Law. If you toss some of the stuff away, you are almost certain to miss out on a very desirable reward. If you keep it, you may receive a pittance after the fact, or nothing at all.

Thanks for the advice. I was not aware they’d be adding a merchant to take some of the old LS currencies; I’ll be on the lookout for him.

My problem right now is that it’s taking up such a gigantic chunk of my inventory that I am literally unable to play the game with my main as of current writing. Every single drop is just another thing I can’t carry. My bank is completely full and I really don’t want to spend RL money just to get additional bank or bag tabs, especially just to make room for EVEN MORE LS currencies and tokens to fill those spots.

Honestly, if they’re going to keep introducing more and more and more currencies, especially if they expect players to hold onto them indefinitely, it would be really great if they just included them as actual wallet currencies. Why not? They’re basically like dungeon tokens as it is.