Inventory Management Guide for Guild Wars 2 - salvaging, identifying, bigger bag locations 2019-2020

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0:36 buy more bags
1:02 sell all junk
1:15 deposit all materials, compact, hide rarity, hide highlights, show bags, seperate embed bags
2:42 sell to trading post from anywhere, use right column for more gold
3:05 bank and material storage
3:30 build template doesnt use bag space
3:40 check empty space counter before identifying all
4:00 my preference on identifying and salvaging
4:28 magic find containers
4:45 copper-fed salvag-o-matic
5:04 storage expander
5:20 consider getting bank slots instead of bag slots until you find your main
5:40 mystic salvage kit
6:06 alt click and shift clicking items, wiki'ing items from inventory
6:33 bigger bags - 20 slots
7:25 biggerER bags - 24 slots
7:40 BiggerEST bags - 32 slotters
9:22 special bags
9:45 showing examples of everything in action
14:15 in closing

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[wolflahti]

I manage my inventory primarily by throwing away items that I later find I need or are of great value.

[quiquaequod]

Hint: If you are running short of bank space, rather than buying bank expansions at 600 gems for 30 spaces, it may be more economical to buy an extra character to use as a "mule". It costs 800 gems rather than 600, but, if you equip your mule with four 15-slot bags (the most cost-effective bag size--about 1 gold per bag) you get 80 slots, which is 10gems/slot, rather than 20gems/slot for the bank expansion. Park your mule next to a bank. You will have to switch to your mule to transfer items to and from your bank, so this trick is best used to salt away items you aren't using, but don't want to throw out. (I call my mules "bankers", and they are all thieves, of course.)

[tammywilliams]

I can't believe I have played this for years and didn't know half of what you imparted. Thank you!

[TheJakyy]

Just identify the 250 stack abd when it's nearing the end of the bag, close the inventory, it cancels the identify all action. Same goes for salvage all.

[zyrin]

For me, when identifying unid gears, i will open sell TP window at the same time and sort by price to make it easier to see valuable yellows and oranges (usually greatswords/berserkers)

[matthayes]

Thanks, inventory management is often the biggest barrier for me getting back into this game

[Krolshi]

It has been roughly 5 years since I first played and I never knew there was an option to visually have your inventory be one. There’s also a shit ton of things I did not know. Thank you so much for this ❤️❤️❤️

[greenya]

Thank you for one more awesome video. The only thing you forget to mention is an answer on question "why do you need two different salvagers? why not use only good quality one for everyhting as its infinite anyway?" the answer for those who wandering is: because the low-quality one costs 3 copper per use, while good quality one -- 30 copper per use.

[johnvonhorn]

Yes! thanks for this, finally got a computer that can handle gw2 and am just getting into it. The video and associated comments are golden.

[Torresgamingchannel]

This was a really helpfull guide. I think this and crafting materials are probably the most intimidating aspects of the game as a vet coming back to the game.

[MaxiimTribe]

Getting back into GW2 after playing back in 2012/2013 and this is the most informative video I've found yet.

[roadwarrior]

Thanks Muk, really nice guide. I’ve been playing GW2 from launch so I have mostly forgot the aggravation a new player has with so little bag space at the start. I have been meaning to work on the 32 slot quest so thanks for the reminder. As for anything you missed ~ you might also want to mention “Invisible bags” I like to keep one on each character in the most bottom slot (for items I don’t want to salvage or vend as junk accidentally).

[PlanetFromOuterSpace]

I cringed when you salvaged those rare greatswords. People buy those from the TP to chuck into the Mystic Forge in the hopes of getting the Eternity precursor, you they sell for 40-50s.You have probably been informed of this by now. . .

[xaphyreansar]

Loved your video, it had a lot of great tips and it made me smile to think I'm still basically a newb and had already figured out a lot of these as well all on my own, but then I'm a inquisitive soul and love to click buttons, read descriptions, and find ways to make my life easier. I've also always used a 'bank mule' since my EQ days and I always try to invest in bank slots and bag slots for the mules, but I love the tip someone posted about the cost efficiency of character slot vs. bag slot! My favorite discovery in this video was how to open a stack of unidentified gear!!! I always wondered what trick people in videos used to instantly unpack these stacks! My fingers love you! (hmmm)

[RobGale]

Timeless advice for GW2 players. I think I knew almost all of these tips and tricks but that's only because I have tried to reform my hoarding ways in the last few years.

[kwentongboxingtv]

big help for me as im about to start playing this game today. thanks

[Nativeebets]

I Just got into gw2 bought the WHOLE game. Thanks for all the tips man. You very Begginer friendly

[mindyourlanguage]

This is easily among the most informative Guild Wars 2, nay gaming, nay VIDEOS of ALL time! Thank you so much for all your effort!!

[BobSmith-dknw]

This is my second time watching this video and each time I've picked up some new things. I think it's just that there are a lot of details about the things you can do and so it takes a while to get through them all and make them part of your habits instead of something you saw in a video and then forgot about before you could make use of it.
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[markstottlemyre]

Loving your videos for a returning launch player. So much stuff to get up to speed! Thank you.