Guild Wars 2

I am having a bit of trouble with inventory management, mostly due to having small size extra bags. 8 slots in each bag tab. Which is proving not that useful.

I’m looking for ways of getting more inventory space as a whole if possible. I know you can buy bonus inventory slots in the gem store. But at the moment I can’t afford anything in there just yet.

You can buy bags with more slots on the trading post. If you have unused character slots you can make a character to use as a mule. Later on when you have the funds to buy gems either with real money or gold you can buy extra bag slots as you noted as well as extra bank space.

As far as managing your limited space, if you find your bags filling up with materials you can click the cog in the upper right of the inventory panel and select “deposit all materials”. This will automatically deposit your mats into your bank material storage and free up some space.

At any vendor in the sell tab you can select “sell junk” and this will quickly sell all your junk items at one time. Also you can access your bank not only from bank NPCs but also from any crafting station if you need it.

Finally, you can place items for sale/buy items on the TP from anywhere. This also helps free up space. You just have to open the TP panel and select sell. This will remove the item from your inventory and put it on the TP (note there is a 5% listing fee up front and another 10% tax once sold. So don’t try to use the TP to store items. ) You will have to actually go to a TP to pick up any items bought or coin from sales though.

To help you out a bit I just mailed you a 12 slot bag.

There are 2 collections that give you 20 slot bags for cheap: Uncanny Canner and Bandit Weapon Specialist. Or if you are up to doing fractals, you can buy 20 slot bags with the relics.

You can also craft your own bags.

Here’s some ways to acquire bags: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bag#Acquisition

Welcome to Tyria, and good luck.

Thanks a ton for the bags. Guess i’ll start working on tailoring so I can make my own in the future.

If you have any WvW tokens, there are some at the wvw vendors. The 18 slot ones aren’t very expensive (jn the link above, they are listed under “outfitter”)

Linthenius.3704:

Thanks a ton for the bags. Guess i’ll start working on tailoring so I can make my own in the future.

FWIW, bags have a fixed minimum price as their require a material only available from a vendor at a fixed gold cost. (eg: 20 slot = one 10g rune of holding.)

Purchasing the least expensive 20 slot “general purpose” bags on the trading post reflects the cost of manufacture, and not much more. Typical savings are around 20 silver for making rather than buying.

I’d suggest you would do better, as a rule of thumb, to simply sell materials that you gather on the TP using the insta-sell price, and then purchase bags.

Decide what you really need with you and put the rest in the bank. Make sure you are not using bank space for anything you can replace cheeply (ie, get rid of any blues and greens).

Menadena.7482:

Decide what you really need with you and put the rest in the bank. Make sure you are not using bank space for anything you can replace cheeply (ie, get rid of any blues and greens).

This is really good advice I think.

I’ve given up saving anything except ascended rarity equipment and level 80 exotics that let you select the stats or ones which cannot be salvaged which have stats I know I’ll use later on. Below level 80 I’m mainly doing open-world PvE where you don’t need to have the best equipment, so I just use the best of whatever I get as loot or as story and level-up rewards. At level 80 even my very first character went straight into using a full set of exotics, so I don’t see the point in saving anything else for when they reach max level.

I also go through my bank periodically and check that everything in there is actually stuff I want to keep. I’m not strict on the reasons: I have some things which are completely useless like a celebration hat I never converted from the old town clothes system (I had 2, the other one is now in my wardrobe) which I keep purely because of nostalgia. But if I can’t give myself a reason why I have something I get rid of it.

Or if I decide the reason is silly. For a while I had about 5 skins I was saving until characters levelled up so I could apply it to their equipment. But I also have over 100 transmutation charges so I put all the skins in the wardrobe to free up space.

I do a similar thing with my inventory – if I don’t actually need it at short notice it can live in the bank. Sometimes I keep things in my inventory so I don’t forget them (like the Zephyrite Lockpick which is reminding me to go to Dry Top to use it), but most things can just stay in the bank.

Linthenius.3704:

Thanks a ton for the bags. Guess i’ll start working on tailoring so I can make my own in the future.

It doesn’t have to be tailoring. Leatherworkers and armorsmiths can also make bags (out of leather and metal, respectively) that do the exact same things. Armorsmith might be your best bet simply because the raw mats are far more reliably gathered.