For those that don't know, if you simply click on the pvp icon (two crossed swords located top left corner) and enter to easily access your bank and vendors and then you can leave and return right back where you originally were.

*TL:DR;* === S Tier === 00:05:11 - Candy Corn Gobbler 00:06:54 - Snowflake Gobbler 00:08:01 - Living World episodes (LW S4, Icebrood) 00:12:49 - Buying gold 00:17:06 - Permanent lounge passes 00:21:52 - Additional character slot 00:23:22 - Copper-fed Salvage-o-Matic 00:23:52 - Silver-fed and Runecrafters' Salvage-o-Matic 00:28:34 - Shared inventory slot === A Tier === 00:25:38 - Infinite gathering tools 00:48:17 - Personal Trader Express (late game S Tier) === B Tier === 00:31:09 - Portal devices (Meta-event and Home) 00:32:55 - Additional bag slots 00:34:11 - Bank tab expansion 00:40:09 - Additional crafting license === C Tier === 00:35:45 - Material storage expansion 00:39:16 - Recharging Teleport to Friend 00:46:21 - Personal Merchant Express 00:47:24 - Endless Repair Canister 00:49:23 - Permanent Bank Access Express 00:50:45 - Endless Upgrade Extractor 00:51:42 - Expansion Deluxe Editions 00:53:33 - Black Lion Garden Deed

Teapot: Character slots have bigger value Also teapot: Craft license is good

Teapot: "I don't wanna log in to another char to craft" also teapot: has 40+ alt accounts

Storage expander one of my best purchases. We are not talking buying the maximum, but buying just 1 make such a huge difference.

You also have to take into account that Anet has "Black Lion Exclusive" hair styles, hair colors and faces you can't get unless you use a hairstyle kit or total makeover kit.

A couple of people have pointed out that the various makeover kits have additional exclusive options which are unavailable during regular character creation in them. This is true, and places the kits' rating alongside items like gliders or mount skins - they're still purely cosmetic, so if you like these exclusive options then go ahead and buy them! You can probably tell how much of a fashion wars player I am for forgetting that.....

It took me 9 years to complete the map and he is telling me to create a new character if I don't like the Name. XD

Great list! I want to point out sales may change the value of bundles a bit. Generally, the items in the bundle (character slots, bag slots, bank slots, that sort of thing) can occasionally go on sale. As far as I can tell from the Wiki, the bundles never do. So if you're patient, the bundle is no longer much of a saving, if at all. For example: End of Dragons Preparation Pack (3000 gems) - Character slot (800) - 2 Bag slots (400 each, 800 total) - 2 Build Templates (300 each, 600 total) - 2 Equipment Templates (500 each , 1000 total) + the lvl 80 Boost + 10 keys (considered a free extra, see the tier list for why!) So contents value = 3200 + freebies However, what about when they are on sale? - Character slot (560) -- (it goes between 20% and 40% off, I chose 30%) - 2 Bag slots (280 each, 560 total) -- (they go between 20% and 50% off, I chose 30%) - 2 Build Templates (210 each, 420 total) -- (they go between 25% and 40% off, I chose 30%) - 2 Equipment Templates (375 each, 750 total) -- (they go between 20% and 30% off, I chose 25%) Core content value when on sale = 2290 When comparing the bundle value with the core-content-on-sale value, it means the 10 keys + booster you get actually cost you ~900 gems.

The makeover kits are actually worth it once per character because they offer a lot more cosmetic options when compared with the actual character creation. Just saying

Need a video on what to do with the piles of crap in material storage. What can I sell right away, what’s worth holding ? What can be easily crafted for high profit? Thanks for the great videos!

And then theres me, only lurking for griffon skins in gemstore xD But to be serious, great tier list! Def also nice for newer players and players that dont know much about the gemstore stuff

100% on board for the mistlock sanctuary key. It's probably my most-used item, after the copper-fed salvage-o-matic.

As a new player that only know the Mad King's Labyrinth lol, you've saved my GW2 life

As a new player, nothing has helped me more than the reusable TP to friend. Skipping puzzles and getting to a group leader when you dont have everything unlocked is a life saver.

My biggest issue with a lot of this Gem Store functionality (e.g.bag slot, bank slot, build slot, gear slot) and to a lesser extent the stuff meant to make inventory management easier (e.g. account-wide inventory slots, permanent salvage items, endless gathering tools) is that it is all a classic case of designing a problem and then selling the solution. I don't mind the purely cosmetic stuff or the sidegrades (like home instance nodes or VIP areas etc.) as much because they don't really fix a problem that was existent in the first place. The aforementioned items however, wouldn't have to even exist if the systems were just designed differently to begin with. For example: why are trash items still a thing in this game? If their purpose is to give a small amount of copper/silver when selling them to a vendor, why not give me the money as a drop straight up? Because they are designed to fill up your inventory and make you lose track of what you even have in there so you'll be more inclined to buy bag slots and bank slots. I recently tried out FF14 and let me tell you, not having to constantly do inventory management was a godsent. I understand the need to draw a line somewhere when designing these systems, especially with the buy to play model in mind. However, personally I find this kind of artificial inconvenience to be annoying and honestly a little bit insulting considering the fact that the game IS still a paid product and other paid products offer a complete experience (even multiplayer features) for my money, no strings attached. And no, I am not hating on this game, I have played consistenly ever since its release back in 2012 and have bought all the expansions and LW chapters (and even some bank slots). I am mentioning this because I think in their pursuit of finding new avenues to monetize the game the designers at ArenaNet have become increasingly more guilty of this psychological manipulation and I see that the competition is doing a better job at monetizing their games without a need for it. And yes, I would actually be willing to pay a small monthly sub fee for GW2 if it meant doing away with all this inconvenient nonsense.

I'm with chat, you are under valuing the material storage expansions but I think you are right about diminishing returns with them. I rate the 250 -> 500 S tier, 500 -> 1000 A or B tier, and over 1000 C or D tier. The reason why 250 -> 500 is S tier is there are currencies like winter berries that you can farm faster with multiple characters but you need 250 to 500 between the storage, character, and bank to buy the items. Without a bank access item moving the mats out of the storage to clear up space for depositing all usually require swapping characters or leaving the map you are farming. For 500 -> 1000 being able to move 4 stacks of ascended mat spam (especially bloodstone dust) instead of 1 or 2 at a time between storage and an alt character saves time plus you also have festival currencies that require 1000 at a time to convert to the higher tier item (candy corn to cobbles for example). Basically it's about clearing the storage space so you can deposit all on alts when farming. That being said if you have the permanent bank access contract most of this is moot as you can then just quickly move the mats to the bank to move to an alt later but that's an upgrade that cost more than a gen 1 legendary so for most player more storage is a much better value.

the one item I truly whaled hard on was the permanent bank contract. few years back I saw it was down to about 2k gold. I had 1k gold on myself and said screw it. Spent about 200 bucks that day... BUT. I use that contract EVERY time I log into the game. And it's in a sharable slot, too, so I can access it from any character. \o/

I just want to say thank you for doing this kind of content. A fockin hour long dude. With timestamps. yopu are a blessing for the GW2 community!

Great list, but hard to look back at unless you know every icon. Maybe a unchangeable file would help to have people use. Thanks

Hi, ty for this list. I didn’t even know there was a teleport item for convenience and that… that’s life changing for casuals like me. 🎉

For levelling up, once you start getting birthday presents (especially 5+ year old) you also get the partial full boosts (lvl 50 boost, etc) saving even more time on levelling too on later characters. Also infinite gathering tools into legendary armoury when?

For me personally the Endless Upgrade Extractor is way under rated i swap out builds alot runes/sigils etc its basically having all your items legendary without owning legendary items.

The event portals and VIP lounges are amazing for cheesing your way around Tyria; the Gendarran Fields one is especially good for getting to dive master locations and Pact Supply Network Agents, as well as easy access to the first Orr map.

"IT'S 5,000 GOLD" - conversion for anyone who thinks that's fair/reasonable still: it's over 300 US Dollars worth of gems to buy that banker contract.

The recharging teleport to friend, it is 1hr cooldown. But that 1hr is 1hr gameplay, so if you use it and it has 37 minutes left when you log to another toon or log off, when you go back onto that character, you still have to wait 37 minutes to use it again

A positive thing about farming your home instance can be buying the LS nodes early on, and farm them daily. So in case you have completed or just don't give a damn about the LS maps anymore (especially LS3), you can still farm the nodes and consume them. And in a later date, that can happen with LS4. Of course they are not mentioned since they are not a Gem Store item, but they are included in the home instance farming.

I got a package deal on the EOD gathering contract when the expansion happened, and honestly, the jade and fish have been pretty nice.

"anything that makes crafting less annoying will always be high tier" but didn't want to make mat storage high tier despite it making high level crafting way easier than clogging up inventory space for mats

The value that new players in particular can get from the rechargeable tp to friends is absolutely insane, and veteran players still get a lot out of it, saving wp costs, arriving instantly on location even if it is far from the nearest wp, positioning alts at alt parks and bringing them into content... Etc. I think it belongs in a or b tier, personally.

the lounge in Ember Bay has saved me so much time. Now I use Armistice exclusively. It just covers all my wvw needs. Good thing to have.

Great Great List. Thanks for the video.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD :D Material expansion item has made my life so much easier as my first expansion to 500 from 250. Maybe it's not worth to max it out to 2000 capacity but one or two is really good!

Mistlock Sanctuary (Fractals) = Armistace Bastion (WvW) >>>> all other VIP areas. They let you teleport back to the spot in the world you left, so you can use them in the world as portable "everything" stations. Need the back, TP, crafting? Teleport to Mislock, do your business, teleport back to the middle of the Jungle.

I would put the hair change icon a little bit higher actually, considering that there are some things that are limited to only using that kit. So it isn't just remaking with the same options that you had the 1st time

Don't know if you noticed, but there are certain hair styles etc that only come with those kits, so "making your character right the first time" doesn't apply in that case. You can look and see what they are if you go to a makeover npc and decide before you buy.

I've got 1,000 material storage cap, and it's perfect. I can make two Vision Crystals basically at will thanks to having that much available anywhere to any character, in case I need to work on an Ascended weapon or Coat (still haven't fluffed out the armory, nowhere near making a Legendary)

completely agree with tpot about Material storage, I bought it to 1k max and then realized that most of the time, only a few items that would reach the cap for storage, so yeah, I feel like buying some is fine but for me, I'm good with 1k and don't have a plan to upgrade to 2k any time soon. ps. I play gw2 for like 20-30 hr/week, so some ppl who play a lot more than me may have a different opinion tho.

Very helpful. Thank you

The main plus side for outfits is looking decent as you level up alts through game play.

If the Character Equipment Slots and Build Temps are more expensive but ACCOUNTWIDE i would say its fine...but this Charbound thing is really crappy in my opionion. I would pay 800-1000 gems (500 is way toooooo expansive) when i can use it for all accounts like the shared inventory slots...but this way is garbage

I think if you ever revisit this, make a tier specifically for “diminishing returns” like the material storage expansion

Having watched this when I started the game and now having played the game for several months, I would say that 1-2 bank slot and 2 material storage are more QoL than the salvage kits in my opinion. There are merchants everywhere so you can easily buy kits and most drops these days are stackable unidentifiable gear. There are so many materials you need for various crafts like legendries. 2 material storage enables you (if you buy 2, you'll be at 750 storage) go long periods of time without having to opening a storage mule and dumping mats there. There are some materials like T5 and various others that you get quite often and you need a lot of. The default 250 storage fills up so quick, then you end up having so much junk in your inventory. I often run out of inventory space mid events. It might not seem like it, but it's really annoying switching characters and pull items from material storage onto that storage characters so often. Also, I buy a week's worth of mats for daily time gated crafts, and used to store those in bank. There are some items that require 100 mat. With 750 storage, you can basically have a whole weeks worth of mats in the material storage and not have it clog your bank or inventory space. You're also possibly saving on one character slot due to expanded material storage. 2 additional bank tabs are also big QoL because there is a lot of items you get that you quite often need on various characters. These things I store in the bank. Things like fractal potions (before getting omni or not having enough shared inventory, WvW boosts if you don't have candy, storing candy corn so you can use it on any character, etc...).One tab fills up pretty quick. Having 2 is a must. It's also a big help when you need to transfer a lot of items between characters. And you can never have enough character slots. They are so valuable. For storage, for parking alts at jumping puzzles you may not like, for farming time gated mats quickly, etc.. Here are the items I believe to by biggest QoL and would buy basically buy with this priority based on value provided (try to buy only during sales): - expansions (you get content, character slots, and shared inventory slots) - LW3 + LW4 + LW5 (see if you can pick up the expansions + LW bundle during sales it's massive value for money); content, gold farms, mounts, and ascended gear farm - candy corn gobbler (soon as you can since it only comes during Halloween event) - 2 material storage expansions - 1-2 bank expansions (depending on your play style and what you're doing) - Snowflake gobbler (soon as you can since it only comes during Winter event) - Salvage kits - Then alternate between character slots and inventory slots until you have ~12 characters and ~10 shared inventory spaces); I keep one character slot open at all times to farm weekly black lion keys One of the biggest QoL we need is account wide gathering tools. If you have unbreakable gathering tools, it's a still a hassle to switch although shared inventory spaces make is bit easier. If you need quick vendor access from anywhere in the world, just use hop onto PvP or WvW (if you are spending few mins there, you get some progress points). Basically the same thing as mistlock and you can use those gems for more important items for now.

Bank storage increases by 250 each time. If you craft a lot of legendries the extra space is great. So first 1 or 2 is A tier, the next 2 or 3 are B tier, beyond that the value drops off. 1000 limit should be plenty for most people.

Thank you teapot I'm new player. Your guide is so useful.

Nobody: Teapot: You don't need to buy hair kits or make over kits, just get your character right first time or remake your character. I have a feeling he doesn't know there is exclusive stuff in them kits. (Also I totally agree, just remake your character if you did something wrong in character creation and only buy these if you want the exclusive stuff.) Also, if you're watching this on the day of publish, Drizzlewood Coast will be free for a week very soon.

Home instance : there's a IMHO hidden value in it : if you level cooking up to 425, which is really cheap, you get bank+vendor access from anywhere in the open world. I think bag slots are better than 32 slots bags. Last time I looked at the price in gold, 2 bag slots + 2x18 bags was cheaper than 1x32 bag. I also think mats expansion is hard to place because I think 1 is A, 2 is B, 3-4 is C, over is useless, even when gathering mats for precursors. I think build templates (for account) is like mat expansion, the value is really high but degrades really fast. The character dedicated ones (items and templates) are like the crafting license but more streamlined. Switching alts or switching builds, a matter of choice. I think "repair" is "don't buy" unless you wipe a lot in end game. I never had any TP seller and will never buy it even if I have money. I also think I would sell it if I looted it as I find this one totally useless. This seller is at one keystroke when poping in then sanctuary in case I need it (really rare). Thank for perma bank, as you said, it's just expensive a toy. I think the vanilla deluxe addition is quite nice : immediate bank access when creating the BL weekly key for far cheaper than the perma bank. Allowing to fast run the key from level 1.

This video is a mandatory watch for anyone starting gw2.

The Mistlock Sanctuary Passkey is the best! Equipment build slots is epic, templates can be copied from saved web sites, so almost no valve.

I agree with just about everything here, especially Material storage. I did fine with just 250 compacity for the first 7 or 8 years of the game, I got one now. 500 is fine. I refine, use, sell the excess. For very very few items I store in a bank slot. (excess living world currency for example.)

Infinite tools should have always been account bound, but these days you can't even change that over how many people just got several sets for their main characters.

The monetization of build and equipment templates really is disgusting. You're literally paying to be able to store 1 line of code. There is no reason they couldn't have done it like GW1, and just storing all templates as text documents in a folder on the players hard drive. This is EA levels of greed and player fuckovery.

- The thing i like is that when u have both the permabank access from anywhere with ur bank slots, it basically kinda like ur account wide slots in a way... - With material storage, i sell mats when its at 2000..so i know i still have 1750 and can make some gold while still having a good amount of the material left if i need to make something... - Yea the crafting license is the same for me..i don't want to move components and change from character to character. The build process is annoying as it is.... - I like the garden contract..i use it to grow the herbs for my metabolic and utility primers i craft and use with my recipes...

I got two sets of infinite gathering tools as part of bundles, and they're nice to have for my non-scrapper characters. I have my Volatiles on my main mad scientist though.

Just logged in to buy the candy corn gobbler /never understood what it did before that video/ and it's already gone from the store :(

Something I don't see in any of the comments, about all the times Teapot mentions "just make a new character" - the only exception I feel is if you're playing a ranger and you've already gotten all of the pets. Rerolling rangers is a 3-6 hour waste of time to get all of the pets back even after a level 80 boost, and since you'll have none of the waypoints it'll almost certainly be even worse. This is the only class I can excuse paying gems to avoid rerolling. (I do agree with "you should've done it right the first time" ... but I've more than once had characters who I had made when this game first came out who I've wanted to rename 5-7 years later, at that point I've gotten enough playtime out of them that I don't feel bad paying Anet a bit extra to support the game I've enjoyed so much) For relatively-new characters though, absolutely, bank/sell everything they own and reroll.

Great tier list

“You’ll basically never run out of mystic forge stones” Faction provisioner tokens: “allow us to introduce ourselves.”

You get make-over kits from playing the game. I think they come from achievement points. If I recall correctly, they come from every 5 - 10K achievement points. I have 2 in my bank that I haven't paid for.

On the make over kit, theres hidden appearances for Charr that can only be done with make over kits

I needed 3 more core tyria mastery points to get Advanced Logistics, so I blitzed the first 3 chapters of LW2. I believe there's 8 mastery points available by simply finishing each chapter, and another 8 if you do the associated achievements for each of them.

Easy way to get Transmutation Charges is to make a new Sylvari character, ranger is easiest. Do map completion in their city and you get 1 charge, delete the character, do it all over again. Saved me a ton of cash.

I should have bought the candy corn gobbler when I had the chance:(( thought about it a lot and now I reslly regret not buying it!

So mutch knowledge 🤯👍👍👍

Heart of Thorns Deluxe maybe should move to C-tier, actually. Most of it is Fashion Wars stuff, but it does contain a character slot. With that item, being in the same tier as vanilla Deluxe doesn't sound right. I'd also add End of Dragons Deluxe (yes, the Deluxe content of EoD released before the actual EoD expansion) to C-tier too. Same deal, one character slot and the rest is for fashion.

Well, is there any value in being able to provide other players with a full home instance? In that case, would the actual value of the item go up?

Pretty good list overall. I'd only change a few things. Like some of the A tier I put in do not buy. Also where do you think supply drops would get placed? Buy if you like since it's mainly just skins? And of course some would be A tier til you buy x amount then rest to do not buy, kinda like you mention material storage. Also the deluxe game things you can also consider them as free since buying ultimate edition of the expansions is great bang for the buck. Specially if you can find gw2 core game ultimate since you get the giant rytlock statue lol but doubt anyone could find those copies anymore lol.

I got Jeweling on my Huntsman/Leatherworker Scrapper because I got tired of having to swap to my Elementalist who's never set foot in Cantha yet to make Dragon Jade to upgrade my Jadebot.

Personally for the bank and material storage expansions, I think having one or two extra is nice. I do think that max level of each is likely not needed by the vast majority of players, and I won't be buying any more than I already have. I also try to only buy things when they're on sale because in general, I'm more cheap than I am lazy. XD

Best viewed muted and using the arrow keys to skip forward. Thank you for your ranks!

I'd add that the black lion industry/expedition board are way better than people think. Unlike most of the home instance nodes, it is free money, every day. Don't have to use it, login, logout, take the money. It take 20 sec. They pay off after a long time IRL, but doesn't ask for any in game time investment. It also give something most important than gold : time. It can give you map currencies and some untradeable items that can be only obtained trough farming, which is a great time saver. Mine gave me several thousands of bandit crest and geodes without having to suffer to go in dry top and silverwastes. I prefer them to the garden plot because garden plot need some time investment and to buy/harvest shit in the open world to make it worth it and it become a daily chore.

thanks so much for this

Build storage expansion, equipment expansion and LW are only things I aim for as I play only 1 char but like to test and try many builds for pvp, wvw, pve, open world, value of build templates really depend on how you play the game, if you play more chars for diferent scenarios like usinf thief only for pvp and engi for wvw you ofc dont want build templates.

May I say , why buying a perma TP when you have mistlock sanctuary ? Just the same thing but way cheaper

just started today, unfortunately that mistlock pass permanent isn't in my shop. Also I got 2 80 boosts when I bought the xpacs. Is it worth jumping a character to 80? I hear it will allow me to use a mount much quicker

I’m surprised extractor isn’t more popular despite the ability to swap runes and sigils and infusions in and out whenever you want on all gear. You can’t normally do that unless you have legendary gear

I really like my Lily of the Elon permanent portal. So I would recommend that. I use it as a utility hub for all my chars. Lily of the Elon is gorgeous and compact, and has everything in one small space. One big plus is that I no longer have to listen to LA map chat. The worst thing that happens in the Crystal Oasis map chat is that people nag for help with Facet.

I got my perma Bank contract in a Black Lion Chest :) Insane luck but I have it. S tier ;) deffo I use it every day.

Idk if it comes up, but some character apperance features are locked behind the makeover kits

Wish you'd mentioned that the Candy Corn Gobbler now has a 5 second cooldown and gives the buffs directly, not as boosters / costumes. Or maybe they changed it later on, this is already 11 months old at this point. Anyways, just 300 gems, not a huge problem.

i think you cant get ascended food without garden (you can't leech ascended stuff from garden it was working long time ago but arenanet "fixed it") so i would move it higher

What is the efficiency for the salvage kits if you wanted to get all of them? Is it Copper for blue, Runecrafter for green, and Silver for rare?

Material Storage Expanded - try crafting a single Legendary Weapon with just 250 stacks in Material Storage, 4 bank tabs, and 4 Crafting Unlocked and unlimited Character-Storage-Mules.

Do you have a video for equipment stats explanation? Im just new to the game and dont understand a thing with the toughness etc. I also dont understand how to make minions stronger. Maybe you could help me out.

00:04:08 Makeover kits have exclusive faced/hair/colors. So if you really get tired of the "base" looks, you "need" these.

also alt characters allow you to farm certain character-specific things like lw4 renown hearts multiple times

Hello, just watched your video but the candy corn gobbler isnt available anymore is that correct?

And here I am dumping all my gold into gems to get Black Lion Keys for Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlocks/Statuettes lol. After unlocking all the cheap stuff beforehand keys are clearly S tier for me. Cost me around 75g to get all the 500-700 gem skins now (just 20 to go). And since they get updated with the new stuff every 4 months I probably will never stop doing it. Got everything out of the Knife Tail Gang Hunting Bonds too last time they were in the shop, 2000 gem mount skins for 45g bwaha.

If you have 4 or more alt accounts, and a strong enough PC to do so, you can bring all 5 characters into your home instance while multi-boxing. Equip them with watchknight/volatile tools, and suddenly you're getting 5x the value from your home instance. Don't clear it on your main (the instance owner), and you could repeat it with 4 more alts. I don't think it's worth doing more than once a day, since it takes ~15 minutes with practice.

"candy corn" and "snow flakes" no longer available 22.05.2022... Sad... Buttt i like a lot kind of video with tier list is very easy to new players like me thank you man

13:00 Buying gold being S tier is interesting. Especially considering that I personally in my gameplay feel like the ultimate endgame goldsinks are legendaries and getting gemstore items. So trading gems-> gold feels like ridiculous waste of gems, but maybe makes sense if you are new and progressing through the game.

What backpacks do you recommend players buy?

Single use items are in the gemstore so that anet can claim you're getting something of value when you loot them from a black lion chest. They don't expect people to buy 'em.

Hair kit and total makeover kit both have stuff that you can't access from just creating a new character

Exe Axe "Just use mounts": Can't use mounts in dungeons or fractals

I'm sorry but HOW do you convert gold to ascended gear? My understanding is that even crafting the gear is timegated by mats or something?

Runecrafter > Copper/Silver-fed since it has no ingame equivalent. Also Gardenplot Deed is necessary to grow cultivated seeds.

Candy Corn Gobbler was not available last Halloween. I really hope it will get back this year.

Most of these items do not show up on the store when I search for them?

Did they upgraded the build Templates? I the shop it says Like"unlock All Slots for all characters" or smth (in German though, maybe a Translation Error????)