Guild Wars 2

There are plenty of bags to use, ranging from Invisible Bags, to Rarity Equipment Boxes, and to Oil Pouches. With the max of 160 item slots for me to take advantage of now, believe it would be a good idea to open up to a larger variety of bags to use…I think? My question is, which would be best to use now? I only ever used vanilla 20 slot bags up until now, do most people just stick with that?

I like have an oiled and a craftsman bag on every character to keep things organized. I found the equipment bags more annoying than useful.

I use mostly normal bags, plus one invisible bag on each character. Just to store gear and siege blueprints and any other stuff I don’t want to sell. I’ve never found any need to use any of the other types of bags.

I also prefer normal bags that don’t fling my gear in places I don’t expect, with one invisible bag at the bottom. However, the 20 slot green fractal bags are so cheap that I put up with them grabbing greens; I just put them snuggled up under my backpack and fill my inventory from the bottom up so anything new will always be at the top.

I did try the feature that highlights new items but found it overpowering, as did many others. If it’s been toned down that can help. Meanwhile I just manually shift things around for efficient finding and access. I’m a packrat and I like being able to tuck items in wherever I want to and being sure I’ve looked at new items to make the keep/don’t keep decision.

Bottom slot (or two) on each char is an invisible bag, nice to not have the stuff I want to keep showing up in selling windows. Also has the whole compress thing disabled

Next on my mains I have an equipment bag, this also prevents the “compress” tool from moving the items locking them in place for the overflow of some items from my invisible bags, on my main I use the fractal Rare bag, this makes it easy to organize when salvaging a bunch of stuff, the rares drop to there and the rest go into the normal slots to be salvaged with my copper salvageomatic and I can come through with the master salvage kit and eat up the rares. So I really only have to keep an eye out for exotics in my main area.

Never botherd with the crafting ones as I just deposit it anyways unless I want to keep track of how many I’ve gotten for a while and then I drop the stack down into my invisible bag(s).

That’s how I set my stuff up.

I have, in this order. Invisible 20 slot, back pack, oiled 20 slot, exotic fractal box, rare fractal box, masterwork box, and two equipment box.

Inventory sorts itself. Can go a few dungeon runs without going into inventory and I never run outa room. My inventory Invisi bag first for easy access to consumables and seige. Backpack holds copper fed salvage o matic, exotic a bl kit, and rare bag a mystic. Open bags, hit deposit all collectables, hit sell junk at merchant, tp or salvage the remainder with thier respectful kits and you are done. Its all nicely sorted for you on its own.

• Invisible (maybe 2) for boosts, gather tools, salvage kits and spare weapons.
• Craftsman to collect raw materials
• Oiled to collect junk
• Safe for 2nd stat set of armor / weapons

Rest are normal to collect drops (and I usually keep them up top so I can look at drops quickly.

I only Craft 15 slot bags (MAYBE 18 for Safe boxes if my character needs to space for spare armor weapons). I’ll certainly use an 18 or 20 if they drop in my lap (but I’m not paying the HUGE differential for those extra 5 spaces)..

I have 7 regular 20-slot bags and then one invisible bag at the bottom where I keep items, I would get some benefit from a second invisible bag but they cost so much more than halloween pails I haven’t bothered buying them to hide my sharpening stones from merchants.

On that subject, Halloween Pails (standard 20-slot bags) cost 3 candy corn cobs (~2g each on the TP) and can be bought from a norn near the lion statue in Lion’s Arch, which is significantly cheaper than crafted bags.

I appreciate all the answers you guys, it’s all been very helpful. I decided to experiment with all the different types of bags to see which ones I can give me the best mileage and give feedback on what I believe would be the best set-up.

I tried out the fractal boxes in particular first, mostly because they were the bare bone when it came to organizing weapons and armor. However, the problem with these were that they were too niche for the way I play (extreme farming), and while I do find use in having bags for just exotics and rares, the exotics in particular just don’t appear enough, nor stay in my inventory long enough to really justify having 20 slots exclusive to them.

Rare bags, while useful when farming in the Silverwastes…well, it fills up so quickly when left unattended, that it goes into my Starter Backpack, making it kinda mediocre in practice. But that’s just my method of farming, it’s probably the best of the fractal bags in my opinion.

Uncommon seems useless, as I pair Masterwork and of less rarity together as garbage to salvage for luck and materials, I ended up just using an Equipment Box instead. Maybe it’s good for those who like mystic forging Masterwork gear, but even then I’d say it’d be better just to get Equipment Boxes…

I can happily say though, that the Craftsman and Oil bags are indeed useful and I’ve grown fond of them stopping junk, masterwork sigils, and overabundant ascended materials and interrupting my salvage sprees. I ended up taking the following bags and might even recommend this set-up to others in this order if I may:

Slot 1. Starter Backpack: For general purpose, such as potions, food, tools, and salvage items like Raw Ambrite that won’t go into equipment boxes despite being salvageable.

Slot 2-3. Safe Boxes: For your personal weapons and armor, especially useful if you keep multiple types. I’d have to recommend having one at the very least to prevent non-token gear from showing up at vendors, a friend of mine accidentally sold his Ascended Shortbow once, so it’s a nice precaution.

Slot 4-6. Equipment Boxes: For all types of weapons and armor you find through dungeons. While you’d have to sort through the different rarities, you’ll definitely have an easier time avoiding overflow into Starter Backpack when you pair it with Craftsman and Oiled Bags. Struggling, as well as just have an easier time salvaging if you go ahead and place your salvage kits down here with the gear if you keep a tiny inventory window like myself.

Slot 7. Craftsman’s Bag: Useful for just getting materials out of the way. I often have an abundance of sigils, silk scraps, mithril ore, elder wood, and ascended materials that I just want to get out of the way while I’m salvaging, so this pack comes in handy. Since I’m always selling materials, this never fills, and when it does, it’s usually cause of the ascended materials which you’ll get in the habit of throwing out, and sigils which you’ll often vendor/sell it on the trading post.

Slot 8. Oiled Pack: Just takes all the junk from monster, and directs them right at the bottom of your inventory out of sight. Visit a vendor and it’ll be out of mind. Shouldn’t ever fill or you’re not visiting your merchant often.

Hope this helps!