Guild Wars 2

I just moved from RIFT to this game and Im loving GW2. I didn’t expect this to be as good as it is. I stumbled across the gem store and Im questioning if there is any reason to buy anything from the store. Is there anything that is essential from there? Do folks buy stuff from there regularly?

It’s mostly cosmetics, which is how the store should be. I think they did a fantastic job with it though since you can convert in game gold to gems if you want anything from it without paying real money. I mostly use it for extra character slots and bank/bag space.

Ah thanks for that explanation I didn’t know you could also convert in game gold to gems thats nice too although Im not opposed to spending real money :-)

I would argue that extra bank space becomes essential but that may just be because I have so much crap i can’t do anything with

LithePanther.5027:

I would argue that extra bank space becomes essential but that may just be because I have so much crap i can’t do anything with

I thought the same way until I started re-evaluating my need for certain items. Now I have more space than I know what to do with.

Besides that, it’s about 50% to just create another guild for storage as opposed to paying for it via the store.

I have actually bought a few Gem Cards and traded them in for Gold to buy my crafting materials. As for buying from the Gem store, I have bought 2 dye packs (gave me 200% return), character storage and I bought a armour skin. If I do purchase again it will be for a character slot. I like the back stories, I would like to complete all 15 (I think).

Bank space and bag slots are definitely a huge convenience improvement. But you should postpone those until you’ve played some and made sure it’s something worth investing in. Then it’s just deciding whether you want to pay in money or time.

BioFringe.7945:

LithePanther.5027:

I would argue that extra bank space becomes essential but that may just be because I have so much crap i can’t do anything with

I thought the same way until I started re-evaluating my need for certain items. Now I have more space than I know what to do with.

Besides that, it’s about 50% to just create another guild for storage as opposed to paying for it via the store.

Can’t use a guildbank to store my 6 80’s gear

Learned that the hard way

Naqaj.6219:

Bank space and bag slots are definitely a huge convenience improvement. But you should postpone those until you’ve played some and made sure it’s something worth investing in. Then it’s just deciding whether you want to pay in money or time.

I would argue that bag slots are useless since they’re character-specific. Bank slots are much more useful, especially since you don’t need to shell out extra money for a bag too