Power Washing My Guild Wars 2 Inventory! | New Player Cleaning Guide 

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New player guide? I'm a beta veteran and I DESPERATELY needed this!

WP, for destroying items that require you to type the name.... shift-click the item, then in chat bot ctrl+a, ctrl+x, then ctrl+v in the destroy prompt, delete the surrounding brackets and you can avoid typing in some really complicated names.

42:00 CORRECTION, that rune crafter's kit does not salvage out the rune for you. What it does is salvage out the rune/sigil then salvages it so you 100% get salvage components from the rune or sigil. I found that out after a support ticket. You need to just Blacklion salvage kits or the upgrade extraction tools.

Put unidentified gear in shared inventory temporarily, then there's no need for the stop-start salvaging. Shared inventory doesn't salvage.

When you level up cooking to 500 you get ascendant salvage kit for foods, put that on you shared slot and you cam salvage all foods you dont need

A note about encumbered - you may find youre full up but the items in the encumbered window are consumable. You can actually drag items from your inventory and the encumbered window to swap them around. There might be some niche situations where your bags are full, you can temporarily swap the consumable item, consume it, then collect your old item back. Rather than have to get rid of one of your items, in order to collect the consumable...in order to consume it anyway. Hope that made sense.

Another really cool salvaging tool is the Portable Composter which is end progression for the Chef profession. It breaks down meals or food items into more basic components which can be reused.

I'd watch you clearing out all other characters as well, it's quite satisfying watching someone clean their inventory

A top-tier salvaging tip: Keep your unidentified gear either in your shared inventory slot or somewhere else where the salvage kit can't get to it, then go through this process: 1. Identify a couple pieces of the lowest gear rarity. 2. Salvage all of that rarity. 3. LEAVE the materials. 4. Identify all of that rarity. 5. Now if you become encumbered from that, just deposit all and the encumberance will go away. 6. Repeat from step 2. This makes the whole process for me go much faster and eliminates the need to even watch and see if you're close to dipping into the unidentified gear. Second tip: There are very few things for everyday players that are actually worthless. Depending on the kind of player you are, the economy and figuring tricks out can open up a whole new world of possibility in the game. For an example, you had lots of luck and you're at the magic find cap. While not something a new player will achieve for a while, your case opens up an interesting new trick. You save your exotic luck for the festival and, presumably know you could refine the lower-tier luck into more exotic luck rather than throwing it out. But something few players realize is that blue luck can be used to promote Lunar New Year backpieces. Depending on how the economy is at various times of the year, this can give some decent gold. This is probably something very few people other than myself can identify with, but there's an aspect to this game of that whole idea of "not wasting any part of the buffalo" where everything has a use that intrigues me and got me much more interested in playing the game after achieving many of my goals. Third tip: Kind of a corallary to the previous one. Try and consider the time of year it is when you're playing. Why were the pumpkin oils, etc. so cheap? Well, it's halloween. Everyone and their dog has inventories flooded with the halloween utilities which give a good magic find buff. The prices were maybe 2-4 times that much in the weeks and months before October. Last tip: This is really more of a compulsion of mine to make sure everyone is as efficient as possible, but for new players (as of this writing) I would generally recommend the following: For blues, use a basic salvage kit or the copper-fed if you have it. For greens, vendor it if you want easy gold or use the runecrafter's kit if you have it (this one might be controversial/wrong so I defer to others if this ends up being my outdated/ignorant view). For yellows use the Master's salvage kit or the mystic salvage kit if you have the stones to make it. If you're a weird/unlucky player with no stones and tons of yellows and have the silver-fed, then it can be used.

Achievement Unlocked: Watched the whole thing. I've played since core beta and I learned some things from this.

a proper power wash for cleanig up a clogged up inventory can never be less than an hour i feel. all the details are important. watching this in-detail guide saved me 5 gold already.

This helped a ton. Ive been playing on and off for years and recently came back in a more dedicated manner. My main issue playing any form of MMo is that Im a hoarder, Id rather jump off a cliff then to delete an item I *might* be using ten years down the line. Gw2 is great since it doesnt have the usual, and tedious, equipment treadmill, but its bad when it comes to all the different consumables and currencies that are only half explained. So seeing someone who has gone through all of it before, who can say "I dont care about this and that" helps greatly, since I can look at my own account and go "Oh, I completed this, so I can delete it, it doesnt have any more worth for me." So yes, its a very long video, but also helpful. So many people just skip so many parts and just say "Do this, I done this off screen" or whatever, but you never really get an insight in what exactly the thought process is. Thank you very much for posting this, it gave me great many tricks to use in organising my (Also very) cluttered inventories :)

I have one extra tip: if you put stacks of unidentified gear (blue/green/yellow) into shared inventory slots they will NOT be salvaged when you use Salvage All option. Unidentified gear will also accumulate there no matter which character you play - saving 3 inventory slots on each character. Thanks to this video I learned about option to sort inventory items by their value on Trading Post which is extremely handy for quickly determining whether something is worth selling instead of salvaging. Now I will be able to easily sell more valuable items instead of salvaging everything.

Best new player guide ever... 1 hour of dragging dropping items from the inventory. If this doesn't highlight some of the silly issues with gw2 I don't know what does. Imagine how much better it would be if the things that are account bound and unlocked just sold to a vendor when selling junk like the backpack straps or the heart items, or the quest or story items.

Doing those HoT meta train all those year ago really forced me to learn inventory wars pretty early on and there were several type of loot bags before its mostly consolidated to unidentified bags nowadays. One thing that help was not clicking on the jumping chests on top of your map or the loot bags till the end of a map meta (or the train itself). Or a downtime while waiting to start, like the meta for Dragon's Stand. As for whether to sell rares or salvage them, I usually compare their price with the ectoplasm in the market. I use one those bags which hide its content from the sale menu on TP or vendor, as well as exempt any of it from being deposit, compress or salvaged. Usually put in those loot bags and mats that my bank is already full of, and sell/salvage them when the price is right.

Advice/info for new players: WP's 32 slot bags are the largest in the game and are hugely expensive to craft (120g+ each). They are one of the many LONG TERM goals in GW2 and when starting out 15/18 slot bags are perfectly fine. (I'm a veteran of the game and am still rocking 18/20 slot bags on most of my characters)

27:43 I think he meant to say to "consume" those instead of delete cos "Spirit Shards" are quite valuable and you wouldn't want to delete them.

Next video: "Doing your laundry with WoodenPotatoes!" WP is on a streak of videos and streams lately, I love it! More please! EDIT: The most painful moment for me was when WP mouseovered the Luminous Saber, in my opinion one of the coolest Sword skins in the game, he has it Unlocked BUT then he goes on to unlock a depressing Warhorn skin! Damn you WP, you need to take your Fashion Wars more seriously! :D

tip on backpack straps that come with a skin to use. Youve unlocked the skin. Deleting the skin has you type it in (usually a really wordy gemstore name). Equip the backpack, use the skin, can destroy it that way. Saves you typing

watching your videos for the last 8/9 years,there all good but that one hit chord!"Power washing my Guild wars 2 Inventory".Thank's for the video!

If I was someone thinking of buying gw2 and I saw a 1 hour tutorial on how to manage the inventory, I'd leave and never come back. It's really not that complicated and you'll learn as you play

Just a quick correction: A Silver-fed Salvage-o-matic is actually equal to a Master's Salvage Kit (or Mystic), not just a Journeyman's.

All my characters have one invisible bag/box (at the bottom just above the shared slots) for gear, consumables and other stuff I do not want to sell/salvage/deposit/... by accident. And it was amazing to see such a messy inventory. I'm usually cleaning up before logging off or switching characters and sometimes even in between, e. g. at the end of a map meta. The GW2 UI has indeed some powerful tools for inventory management, but the question still is why the game messes up your inventory in the first place and then gives you the tools to clean it up. Getting loot should feel rewarding and not like a burden.

Especially the start of this video was really useful. Great tips like shift clicking, searching, bit of what to keep what to sell and how to sell. Two thumbs up at least. 👍👍

I desperately need to do this with my bank! I have too many legendary bits and festival tokens taking up all my space. I would love if they would make a festival wallet section! Also for the food that doesn't give a lot money on the TP I use the Portable Composter on the to get the Nourishments.

Your assessment from the start is right on for me. I came back to GW2 after 6 YEARS of absence after having a lvl 30 max character. My Inventory is full and now I also get so many bags and extra items from Birthday presents I straight up quit the game again.

Veteran player here, thanks for the video! Bunch of stuff learned after almost 8 years. Keep it up WP!

This is the content I'm subbed for! I love a good power washing video.

Very satisfying to watch the whole thing! Nice, clean inventory is always good.

Hey WP! Hope you are keeping well and thank you for all of your videos. I expect this comment is going to be a slight tangent to the general discussion. I wrote a comment a number videos ago on the new leadership that came in and your passion for the game being so contagious it reinvigorated me to get back into GW2. You very kindly highlighted my comment at the end of that video and I said I would work towards making my first legendary after the legendary armour dropped. Well today I finally completed Exordium and I am feeling great I managed to get it all done! I am just getting in touch to let you know. Thank you for being a constant source of positive energy for this game! I think I will next work on making the legendary sigils to complement the weapon!

This was so satisfying to watch 😄 thanks for the inventory tour !

dude when you opened the trick or treat bags i lost it, all that work cleaning and you opened the trick or treat bags and went back to full lmao

A tip for players who are returning who have cooking at a high level, you can salvage festival food with the Portable Composter to get nourishment extracts to grow ascended food items!

This was great! Can't wait for the "Condi Washing My Guild Wars 2 Inventory", if you know what I mean.

One of my friends was so bad with inventory management, I actually begged him to let me remote into his computer to clean it for him-- and he let me. Never thought I'd feel such euphoria from getting those 100 slots full down to like 10.

nothing but helpful videos from you. keep up the good work man

Biggest tip: Clean up at the end of every day. So long as you are decent at organizing your items/space in your bags/bank, a quick sweep at the end of every day eliminates most of the hassle you see these youtubers/streamers going through when they need to clean their bags

Another Beta Vet. Still (until now, thankfully) kept getting swamped by numerous Crappy dropped items, especially during Meta Missions/Content, nothing aggravated me more than having to pause, wasting valuable time to either "Sell to Vendor" stuff that could net me some welcome Gold, IF I had sorted my Inventory out properly first. So huge thanks for taking the time to show us these tips. +1 indeed.

Not a new player, knew all of this. I just like listening to your videos :)

I learned something from it! Had GW2 since it dropped, got a lot of stuff in my bags.

Ha, I'm that exact player you're talking about. I log in like once a year, and when I do I have 30+ boxes to open, full of various things that I don't understand, and by the time I'm done managing all of it I'm ready to log out again. I still enjoy watching your perspective on the game though, even though I don't play much any more. Thanks for the guide.

Thank you so much for this video! I've been playing since launch and never knew you could get better rarity from an unidentified gear bag. I just straight up salvage them, jeez

That was satisfactory to watch and I learned stuff! Thank you!

Speedruning "Inventory Wars 2" - Wow, thats quality content! :) Keep it up WP!

ArenaNet should add Legendary inventory bags into the game. Still 32-slot as ascended bags, but you can change the type of INDIVIDUAL SLOTS in a Legendary bag. Would help with inventory management a lot and it's another horizontal progression to the game.

Very nice guide, presented very well.

0:45 is exactly why I haven't played in about 3 years. You read my mind!

Thanks for the in-depth info, well worth it!

40:20 correction, it's equivalent to master's salvage kit. Not sure how you got mixed up there. Also surprised I haven't seen another comment point it out.

Holy shit, long but worth it . . . I'm prone to stuffing my pack with everything also but then I'm at a lose how to deal with it . . . now, I have a possible solution, so thx. Wished you were more active with content now in GW2 as I've just returned after a long hiatus and GW2 is on steam.

i've been playing since 2013 but watching this was so satisfying

Still holding out hope for a New Player's Guide to PvP jargon!

To add to the search function. You can search 250 and it will show you all the full stacks you have. If like me you have full storage and wait to 250 to sell Items.

you are a hero, I came back after 3 years and couldn't make heads or tails of my full inventories XD

Very helpful, thank you for making! I would be interested in a variation of this: which is inv management for new players where the initial inv space is so small. When I first started I didn't even know *how* to even get more inv space. I'm less new now, but still green enough to find such video very helpful.

I think its perfect you made this guide right at the end of Mad King, one of the festivals that really get our bags full. And even first day vet like me learned 1 thing or 2 ;)

Awesome … I’ll pass this on for sure!

The Apply Skin items are the bane of my existence. Just unlock it in my wardrobe and give me a transmutation charge so I can decide later what to use it on.

This was cathartic.

I've always wanted to go through your inventories whenever they flash up onto the screen XD However thanks to you I also use some characters as additional storage as I hadn't considered that before thanks to previous vids! When it comes to the legendary collections its worth it to double check the associated collections. Almost got rid of some items before, but I would've had to go retrieve them somehow since they were required for additional steps. That said I should get around one of these days to doing the associated tasks and events...

"black" is another super useful term to search like "cons" or "boost". It'll bring most of Black Lion Trading post only stuff like Kits, Bank Access, Revive Orbs, etc. that you accumulate through daily logins.

what i learned about this video: your a great guy to do business with :D plenty of overcharging oportunities

i just unlocked my food recycler from the cooking mastery track. was a godsend for all the excess food consumables i had stacked in my inventory. now i can convert them all to essences for use in the garden plots of my home instance. gets junk out of my inventory and makes the inventory juggle easier.

If you move the unidentified gear bags to a shared inventory slot temporary they wont get salvaged. This way you can alt click drag a few at time to identify and salvage.

Honestly, such a good video. Veteran here and this is stuff I've been ignoring for years so thank you! (Curious why you banked your wardrobe unlocks).

We did it guys! We forced WP to clean his inventory!

As a fear hoarder this video is what ive been trying to find for years

I do that exact thing. I used to play GW2 religiously and quit a few years back. Everytime I try to come back I see my mess of an inventory and bank and the million currencies I dont remember waht they are for, get overwhelmed, and quit.

Watched to the end easy, it was fun xD Like a piece of a show

I ususally just make compost out of the food. Puting the bags at the end of the inventory to make salvaging quicker is something I will start doing from now on.

Alternate tip for unidentified bags if you have them, I throw them up on my shared inventory slots so they don't get salvaged. I can open however many I need and then salvage safely. :)

You should mention the composter for salvaging food

Just gotta say: don't throw away your Ornate Rusted Keys, you can get Swim-Speed Infusions (which you can sell for some gold) and you also can get a cool breather. Also, the Silver-Fed Salvage Kit is equivalent to a Master's Salvage Kit. Besides that, I had a nice time watching you clean your inventory.

That inventory! Oh lord is this some kind of late halloween scare

I would say with the Salutes you can get Black lion Salvage kits which is i guess i can say the best kit, ascended salvage kit for asc stuff i don't need anymore, along with the Portable Composter which could have been used on the foods. as for slot bags i suggest the Reinforced boreal Trunk, as they are the easiest and cheapest 1s i thing to make, the Halloween Pail is also a good 20 slot bag as it also rather cheap to get.

I finished the video! *proud

I wish the preview for salvaging allowed you to remove items from the salvage queue.

you can save your unid's from the salvage monster by putting it in the shared slots as well; wont salvage items in there

19:20 I'll move those things I have to type the name of to a keyfarm character that I'm going to delete

Regarding the time...a new player would be fighting with a smaller inventory filled with less diverse items. The principle is the same, but in this case the video provides a lot of benefit to more experienced players as well. One question (open to anyone)...rather than sell items like the food, wouldn't you be better breaking that down with the cooking kit? I found cooking ascended food required a lot of resources at several tiers. I realize festival foods don't work, but mango pies and the like do. Even to pile into a guild bank for your chefs.

Ik keep unsalvageable exotics as you can toss them in the Mystic forge and get a sellable/salvageable exotic or better. They do need to be the same type (weapon/armor/trinket) and you need 4 or 3 with mystic forge stone. If you get super lucky it might throw out a precursor though it'a

I tend to clean mine as I go along. Like when waiting for world bosses to spawn or crafting things. I also sell and buy regularly and how could I do that with an inventory that looks like WPs?

thanks for this video. While watching this video i felt like i was watching an episode of Rick and Morty- Where they are watching those random TV shows - and this one about getting rid of inventory stuff with WoodenPotatoes instead of Marie Kondo.

Every streamer ever has a single huge combined inventory and I find that maddening. I find keeping my bags separate immensely more useful than combining them as I not only use different bag types (invisibles, containers, grey items) but I also have different organizations of what in each of those bags. In addition, those bags are put down to the bottom (with all those uncombined bags, they're often offscreen and need to be scrolled to) so that when I open inventory I only see a clean empty inventory up top and as loot rolls in its all up top completely separated from everything down below. When people use the combined bags it just seems to turn into a mess as new items just create a bigger block of crap up top. It also means as I'm processing loot, I can keep hitting "compact" periodically and all the unsorted stuff will keep bubbling to the top, with all my permanently sorted stuff staying down bottom. Instead of having everything just ram back into my permanent inventory.

I think the next stage that usually happens (or happened) for me follows everything in this video, and really starts to become an issue after repeating this process 10-25+ times. You start building up a bunch of exotic or even ascended equipment that you may want to use on alts, especially if they’re stat-selectable. It’s not quite as simple as selling them, and your bank may be too full to hold them. That has always been a massive source of clutter for me, and it happens a lot around festivals or certain patches when new skin sets are available. Recently, because of the legendary armory, a lot of that stuff has been becoming obsolete for me, which has been fantastic. But that’s absolutely not really relevant to the new player experience, unfortunately. In general, I’d really just recommend not holding onto more than about 2 of each type of exotic weapon/armor for future builds, and I tend to either keep those in my bank or even on a character specifically designed to hold this items (that is a luxury, I realize). But I’ve basically realized its not worth it for me to bother holding onto more than about 2 of any given type of item - I just don’t play enough characters or do build craft enough to warrant keeping more. As for handling exotics, which the video kind of didn’t cover super extensively: I will typically see if I need the skin and will unlock it, otherwise I’ll see if they sell for a good amount (50s+ for armor, 1g+ for weapons) to sell directly on the tp. If they don’t sell for that much or they’re account bound, I’ll mystic forge exotic weapons. Any other exotic weapons or armor, I’ll salvage with a master kit. Since I have a Mystic Forge Node, I also often mystic forge rare weapons, but I think I’d suggest new players not bother doing that.

This should be a mini game in GW2. Fastest to clean their inventory and get the most profit 🔥

I´a m 9 year veteran and enjoy this video, definitely cathartic. You can also recycle foods into ascended ingredients.

I'm a hoarder and what clogs up my bags is items I don't want to get rid of cuz I don't know if they will ever be used for something or brought back to be picked up again. And story books completed/incompleted ones, other achievements ones. Not in game atm so can't give more specific examples lol

I wish Anet offered more bank space without gems that would help my inventory, I think you only get one tab. or give us extra bank tabs when we purchase expansions, it feels like a waste to spend money on features that should be part of the game.

"im gonna search with the word slots to see the bags" the dedicated inventory bags category 😂

lol watched from start to finish =D

If you mount up you can actually spam the fireworks and it's kind of worth it then

Efficiency is always on the top of my mind, my wife has inventory like yours just chuck full, disorganized and utterly abhorrent to my OCD. One thing I do, that I would suggest to others, is don't just have a Trash holding character, instead have a specific character for each type of overflow. I have one toon who has all my stacks of Elderwood Planks, another that holds all my Mithril Ingot stacks, another with all my Watchwork Sprocket stacks and so on. I can remember who has what, but if I couldn't I Could jot it down on a sticky tab and try not to lose it. I keep one of my Bank Tabs relatively clean and just shove in there all the stuff I know goes on another toon and then once a week while farming I take those alts to the Guild Hall and they pick up their stacks at the Scribing station, and drop off all their farming loot stacks for other toons.

Welcome to my video game life. There are games I don't play because my inventory/ bank is too overstuffed. I just don't want to waste my time dealing with it. I take my money elsewhere and play a different game. It's not my fault devs did not put a good inventory system in their game. I don't play video games to manage virtual bag space (I really don't know what devs are thinking with that or why its even a thing).

That is how you win at Inventory Wars. :) Time for me to start my battle so I am ready for February/EoD

if you open your blue unidentified gear bags and you go to salvage all, you can just salvage all blues, and not worry about your unopened unidentified green bags

Something that might also make for a good video is going through important options in the game. Things can be kind of overwhelming as they are to newer players I'd wager.

Any tips on getting bags to store stuff

"Who's watching?" LOL This makes my bank/mules/backpack look reasonable :)