Summary
Guild Wars 2offers unique quality-of-life items that not only provide convenience but can help players fill out their gold supplies. Gizmos are a diverse array of utility items that players can use for everything from fast travel to crafting efficiency, making daily and regular activities likecrafting material farmsrun much more smoothly.
While many gizmos are available, these stand out for their usefulness, convenience, and output-boosting potential. Many are not cheap and may require substantial investment, but many pay off in the long run, even if the currency saved is the player’s time and enjoyment.
8Mystic Forge Conduit
Keeping In Touch With The RNG Toilet
The Mystic Forge is the uber-crafting station. Combining items has a chance to produce a higher tier item, and certain recipes produce highly sought-after gear. Whether for crafting items, recycling gear, or creating rare materials, the Mystic Forge conduit is a relatively inexpensive way to skip having to go all the way to Lion’s Arch or a lounge.
This gizmo offers the ability to access the Mystic Forge from anywhere and can be a lifesaver in those situations where a player’s loot bags are filled to the brim with blues or greens, and there are golds on the line.
7Copper Fed Salvage-O-Matic
Doing Away With Limited Salvage Kits
Salvaging items is a good way to shore up crafting supplies and to punch empty space back into inventory bags. However, constantly having to buy salvage kits from merchants can be a hassle. This copper-consuming infinite salvage kit never runs out of charges (as long as players have at least three copper coins).
This item can be bought at the gem store, andfor new players who are unaware, players can exchange gold for gems directly through the store. Admittedly, it does take a long time for the cost of the investment to pay off. However, if dropped into a shared inventory slot, it pays off big time in terms of convenience.
6Living World Portal Tomes
Easy-Reach Doorways To Important Farming Spots
Getting around via waypoints hardly seems expensive at around four silver coins a jump, but going from one side of Tyria to the other frequently can add up. Additionally, having to look at the map, scroll to the right place, and find the waypoint pinpoint on the map can waste valuable seconds that could otherwise be used for farming.
Given that some ofthe best content inGW2was released in Living World maps, having a way to jump to them all in one place is a lifesaver, and that’s exactly what portal tomes do, with each map conveniently listed in the same item. A whole season of zones can be collected in one item-slot-using gizmo. The scrolls and their holders can be purchased in the Living World Seasons 3 and 4 maps as well as the Icebrood Saga maps.
5Ascended Crafting Material Gobblers (Portable Exchangers)
Clearing Material Storage Of All The Endless Dust
Any veteran Guild Wars 2 player will know what it feels like to drown under an ocean of ascended crafting materials. They come with too many high-end reward chests to mention and are not used proportionally in crafting recipes.
Fortunately, there is a suite of gizmos available via achievement rewards that can compress all those useless stacks of bloodstone dust, empyreal stars, and dragonite ore into bag gifts. Exchangers available via achievements that do not require too much monetary investment are Herta, Princess, and the Gleam of Sentience (although some may require considerable time sinks).
4Permanent Black Lion Contracts
Impossibly Extravagant But Highly Useful
Permanent Black Lion contracts are some of the most expensive items inGuild Wars 2’s trading post. They offer tantalizing utilities, such as access to storage or crafting from anywhere in the world.
While themassive amount of goldrequired to buy them (without resorting to buying gems with real-life money) is undeniable, these gizmos offer some of the best conveniences the game has to offer. The Black Lion Merchant permanent contract, at an eye-watering 999 gold on the trading post, offers the most utility for the most reasonable price.
3Prototype Position Rewinder
A Jumping Puzzle Hater’s Saving Grace
When jumping was added into the game as a mechanicas an improvement over its predecessor, the fans rejoiced. However, some of GW2’s jumping puzzles are fiendishly difficult, especially in areas that disable mounts and gliders.
Thankfully, a heart vendor in Sandswept Isles sells an item called the “prototype position rewinder,” which effectively allows players to mark their own temporary “checkpoint” before attempting a difficult jump. So long as they hit the reset button within, players will be given a second chance.
2Two-Way Lounge Passes
The Ultimate Convenience Between Loading Screens
Getting around in Guild Wars 2 can hardly be called inconvenient with all its Asura gates and waypoint networks. However, even instantaneous teleportation to towns for crafting, selling, or banking purposes comes with a long walk back to wherever the player jumped away from, even ifthe mounts in Guild Wars 2are incredibly fun to ride around on.
Lounge passes allow players to teleport to a location beyond Tyria with all the usual amenities, including access to the trading post, mystic forge, bank account, crafting, and more. Best of all, they return the player to the spot where they originally used the gizmo pass. While they can be pricy with a gold-to-gems conversion, they are worth it for the convenience.
1Candy Corn Gobbler
The Biggest Boost For The Best Price
In terms of efficiency, this item is regularly touted by advancedGuild Wars 2players as one of the best gizmo items to own in the game. This gobbler gizmo eats the Halloween-themed crafting item, candy corn, and gives the player a transformation or boost effect as a reward for three pieces.
It is because of the reward that veteran players hold the candy corn gobbler with such high esteem. The item booster grants extra crafting experiences, extra gathering strikes, and a higher chance to find better loot for defeating enemies. Having to feed it enough times to get a boost and not acorny Halloween-themedfancy dress shape can be irksome but ultimately worth it.
