Guild Wars 2

I have been playing this game since September and I have bought 2 bank expansions. My bank space is getting pretty tight. I am wondering if holding on to certain items is worth it, particularly when it asks me to put my account name in to delete it. Examples include “5 books of mentorship” that I received when I got map completion. I was already level 80, and they won’t let me eat them for spirit shards, they are also nontransferable (I tried to mentor someone just to get rid of them). The next example is the rare novice backpack that I received . I no longer wear it, I have the skin, but it asks me if I really want to delete it by entering my account name. If these things have a purpose larger than I know I’m not seeing it.

Next, I have 5 map scraps, and no completed map. Is the loot from this good enough to take up 5 entire slots? Also, keys that go to chests in twilight harbor, is the loot a good enough incentive to take up two slots when I don’t know if I will ever go to a dungeon outside of story mode? No one does dungeons anymore, and I won’t try to pug them ever again. Mind you, I am level 40 in HoT, I have started fractals, and I farm wood, so I am not short on gold, and I know what good loot looks like. How good loot is all depends on the types of loot you are already getting, so if it is just a bunch of masterwork stuff I am happy to just delete these things

If anyone knows the answers to these questions I would be beholden if you’d clue me in on the worth of these things.

When you’re required to type in the name of an object before you can delete it it’s usually because you cannot get another one easily/at all, or because you may have paid real money for it. Nothing at all to do with whether it’s going to be useful for you personally.

The Tomes of Mentorship for example only come from completing the personal story, so if you deleted them and then decided you wanted them again you’d have to complete the story all over again. (Although they’re a bit of an odd example because functionally they’re identical to a Tome of Knowledge which is widely available.)

In case you’re wondering their purpose is to help speed up levelling another character on your account. Many people have 2 or more in this game, partially because levelling alts is so quick.

As for your bank filling up if you’re ever not sure what to do with an item you can search for it on the Wiki (you can even type /wiki [search term] e.g. /wiki Enchanted Map into the chat box to save time) and that will tell you what it is, where it comes from and what you can do with it, along with any other information. Then you’ll be able to decide if it’s worth keeping or not.

(And since it sounds like you aren’t likely to want 5 characters you can create extras and keep them near the bank as an easy way of getting an extra 20 storage slots. More if you have spare bags.)

Thanks Danikat! The biggest question was why all the big deal about deleting an object that isn’t seemingly particularly useful. I am leveling up a new mesmer, I never considered having her eat the tomes, duh! I will check out those scraps. It seems like I am tripping over stuff I have no idea of why I am keeping.