This article is about upgrading gear. For upgrading structures in WvW, see Objective upgrade. For upgrading an account, see Account#Upgrade.

These backpacks do with selectable stats and all have an upgrade slot (your need to right click the backpack in your inventory to select the stats). The final tier (400) also have a defensive or offensive infusion slot, depending on which one you picked to craft. Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire—Digital Deluxe Upgrade: 2,400 1 Upgrade your Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire edition to Digital Deluxe and receive: Additional Character Slot; Identity Repair Kit; Sunspear Outfit; VIP Area in Amnoon; Items will be delivered to you at your next log-in. Shared Inventory Slot: 700 1,890 2,800 1 3 5 Double-click to add a.

Upgrade items improve your equipment's performance. Double-click an upgrade, and then click on a piece of gear with an unused upgrade slot to fuse the upgrade to the gear.

— Upgrades

Upgrade components are items that can be added to weapons, armor, trinkets, and gathering tools. The equipment must have an Upgrade Slot to accept a component, and most upgrade components require the item to be above a certain level. Upgrade components grant bonuses (such as increased attributes or effects added to attacks) while wielding that piece. Some upgrades have special cosmetic effects. Upgrades can be crafted, bought, found, or obtained as a reward. Upgrade components in an item can be replaced with another upgrade component, but doing so will overwrite the previous upgrade. Upgrade components placed in items cannot be recovered except by either salvaging the item (with a Black Lion Salvage Kit or Ascended Salvage Tool), or by using an Upgrade Extractor. Equipment from karma merchants will often come with an upgrade component that cannot be replaced or salvaged. However, glyphs and upgrades in legendary equipment can be swapped freely.

Types of upgrade components[edit]

Universal upgrades[edit]

Primary article: Universal upgrade

Universal upgrades, which include gemstones, are upgrade components that can be placed in any type of equipment. They provide smaller bonuses than components that are type-restricted, but they are easier to acquire than most other components.

Jewels[edit]

Primary article: Jewel

Jewels are upgraded versions of gemstones created by a jeweler; they provide larger bonuses but can only be placed in trinkets.

Runes[edit]

Primary article: Rune

Runes can only be placed in armor. Each armor piece can have no more than one rune. Placing the same type of rune on different armor pieces worn together will give the wearer additional, accumulating benefits. For example, a single Superior Rune of Balthazar will give a +25 bonus to Condition Damage, a second (on another piece of equipment) will add on a +10% bonus duration to burning if worn at the same time, and so forth. This means that the player can accumulate armor set bonuses on any set of armor pieces, rather than having to acquire specific armor pieces in order to finish a set and gain the full bonus.

Runes are noteworthy for being able to grant abilities and stats unobtainable through any other equipped source, such as creating effects when struck, increasing movement speed, and decreasing weapon swap time. As such, the choice of runes can be more involved and beneficial to a build than choices of accessories. However, other rune sets simply provide large benefits to basic statistics, and are replaceable by other components such as gemstones and sigils.

The first number (ex: 0/2 Minor Rune of Dwayna) represents the number of armor pieces with that particular rune embedded that you currently have equipped. When you have a piece of armor that asks you to have 2 pieces of rune ex: (0/2 Minor Rune of Dwayna) that means you should have two pieces of armor that hold that type of rune. It does not mean that you need to apply the same rune to the same piece of armor twice. If you do, your current upgrade will be destroyed.

Sigils[edit]

Primary article: Sigil

Sigils can only be placed in weapons. Each one-hand weapon may have only one sigil. Two-handed weapons can have two separate sigils, but both must be different. (You cannot double or otherwise 'improve' a sigil's benefit by slotting another of the same type to the weapon(s) currently in use.) Sigils have a variety of effects, such as attacks which trigger on critical hits, passive damage or attribute bonuses, or triggering effects when swapping to a weapon with that sigil slotted.

Infusions[edit]

Gw2 Back Items

Primary article: Infusion

Infusions are a special type of upgrade component used for non-amulet ascended equipment, legendary equipment, and some non-ascended back items. Enrichments are upgrade components that can be placed in ascended amulets. Infusions placed in an item can be recovered by salvaging the item or with an Infusion Extraction Device.

Glyphs[edit]

Primary article: Glyph (upgrade)

Glyphs can only be placed in gathering tools. Glyphs enhance the speed and functions of gathering tools. Unlike other upgrade components, glyphs can be removed and reinserted indefinitely and will be placed into the inventory if replaced by another glyph.

Notes[edit]

Replacing an upgrade component may alter the suffix of an item.
Upgrades must be of equal or lower level to the item being upgraded.

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Guild Wars 2 Inventory Space Management Guide by Jerich

I always run out of inventory space in any MMO I play. The main problem is that I love to craft and quest and always have a ton of those items on hand. Here are some things I’ve found out about GW 2 to help me plan my storage space.

Starting Inventory

Account

30 shared bank slots
Crafting Material / Cooking Material / Mini-Pet Storage… You can have 250 of each crafting item stored.

Per Character

20 slot starter backpack
Four bag slots
You can have up to 5 characters

Bags

Basics

4 slot bags can be purchased from vendors for 32 copper
8 slot bags can be made by crafters (tailor, leatherworker, armorsmith) with 20 tier 1 materials (jute scrap, rawhide scraps, copper ore)
Each tier of crafting makes a higher quality bag (10 slots, 12 slots, 15 slots, etc). In addition to raw materials, these higher level bags require an increasingly expensive vendor item called runes of holding.
20 slot bags can be made at max level, and they require a superior rune of holding (10 gold) to make.

Specialty Bags

All three professions can make invisible bags (which don’t show up when selling to merchants)
Tailors can make 8-20 slot Craftsman’s Bags (New crafting materials are placed here first when looting)
Leatherworkers can make 8-20 slot Oiled Leather Packs (Junk items are placed here first when looting)
Armorsmiths can make 8-20 slot Reinforced Padded Equipment Boxes (Weapons and Armor Fill this bag First)

Gem Store Upgrades

Free Storage

We start with 30 bank slots
Each Character Starts with a starter pack and 4 bag slots (100 maximum slots)
We can make 5 characters.
That means we all have 530 free slots without using the cash store (which is a pretty decent number considering we have seperate storage for crafting ingredients in our bank and can send crafting items to the bank while on the field)

Bank Tab Expansion

You can expand your bank 7 times for 600 gems each time
Each expansion adds another 30 slots
Since gems will most likely sell for 400 for $5.00, this each expansion will cost around $7.50.
Each extra equpment slot bought this way is therefore 25 cents

Character Slot Expansion

You can buy more character slots for 800 gems
This is about $10.00 US currency
If you assume you can easily get 20 slot packs, you can get 100 equipment slots this way.
Each extra equipment slot bought this way is therefore 10 cents.
Even if we factor in the high price of 20 slot bags and just use 8 slot bags, each slot is still only 19 cents a piece

Bag Slot Upgrade

You can add an extra bag slot to a single character for 400 gems (Up to 3 times)
This is about $5.00 US currency
If you assume easy 20 slot packs, this is 25 cents a slot
If you use 10 slot packs, this is 50 cents a slot

Tips to Maximizing Your Inventory on the Cheap

How to get by without extra bag slots even if you are a crafter

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Buying salvaging tools should be prioirty #1… Even if you don’t craft, you will want to mine every ore node / chop down every tree you come across for experience and profit. You can buy them from vendors in most starting areas.
You can buy a crude salvage kit at many renowned heart vendor for a small karma price. Use these kits to break apart trash drops.
Send any crafting material directly to your bank by right clicking on it and choosing (send to bank)
You can quickly sell junk items to renowned heart vendors through the sell all junk items button.
You can post any item you think will selll (crafting ingredients will sell really well until bots ruin the market) by directly opening up the trading house. I will write a guide on this later.
You can also mail items directly to an alt from the interface if you have a second account (directy from the interface without using a mailbox). Tyr Odinson (on post 51) tested this and calculated you can get 100 extra spots of storage this way. Check out his post here: http://www.guildwars…ap/page__st__50
Using these steps, the default bag slots should be more than sufficient

Organizing your Bags

Ideally, I will organize my bags this way… Starter Pack = Overflow and a space for my salvage kits
Bag #1 Reinforced Padded Equipment Box… All my salvagable loot will come here for me to quickly break apart or sell on auction house
Bag #2 Craftsman’s Bag … All crafting material will gather here for me to quickly righ click and send to bank.
Bag #3 Invisible Bag … My Extra gear (extra weapons / armor, buffs, etc) that I don’t want to sell on accident will go here.
Bag #4 Oiled Leather Pack … Junk items will go here so I never have to sort through them.

Efficient Use of Gems

Buy Character Slots First: If you find yourself running out of space… Your best bet is to make sure you are using all five of your character slots and then to buy more character slots
- First… this is the cheapest use of gems by far (10 cents per equipment slot compared to 25 cents for the other options)
- Second… It is quite possible that Arena Net will give each of your characters a birthday gift like they did in Guildwars 1. These are usually worth money and on a per character basis.
Buy Extra Bank Slots Second: I would only buy bank slots if you find the 30 default slots too annoying. While not as good a deal as character slots, they are a quality of life issue and mean you won’t have to mule as much.
Buy Extra Bag Slots Last: These are not a good deal. I would only buy them if you find yourself running out of working space consistantly and even then only for your main characters.

Part 2: Gem Store Upgrades vs 20-Slot Bags
As like any MMO, bags in GW2 get more expensive as you get better and better ones. Here is a table that lets you quickly see the scaling cost per inventory slot for each level of bag:

Note: (For a more detailed listing of how I calculated these numbers… go to http://gaiscioch.com…post_32754.html)

The Price of Bags

Starter Backpack (20 new slots): Free!
8-Slot Bags (32 new slots): 6 copper / slot
10-Slot Bags (8 new slots): 3.47 silver / slot
12-Slot Bags (8 new slots): 7.38 silver / slot
15-Slot Bags (12 new slots): 17.60 silver / slot
18-Slot Bags (12 new slots): 75 silver / slot
20-Slot Bags (8 new slots): 6 gold / slot

*These costs are assuming 8 slot packs are 50 copper and other packs sell for 1.5 times the cost of the rune

The Price of Gem Store Upgrades

Extra Character Slot (80 new slots assuming 15 slot bags): 10 gems / slot
Bank Tab Expansions (30 new slots): 20 gems / slot
Extra Bag Slot (18 slots assuming 18 slot bags): 22.22 gems / slot

When should you buy gem store upgrades instead of 20-slot bags?

Extra Character Slots: Buy When Gems are Cheaper than 100 gems = 57 gold
Bank Tab Expansions: Buy When Gems are Cheaper than 100 gems = 30 gold
Extra Bag Slots: Buy When Gems are Cheaper than 100 gems = 24 gold

Note: I don’t think the price of 100 gems will reach 24 gold until at least a month after launch. If gems ever go over 57 gold per 100, that will probably be at least a couple months after launch. That means it will most likely be better to purchase gems for inventory upgrades instead of investing in 20 slot packs.

Edit: Shayne Hawke created a rather epic Excel spreadsheet where you can input the current auction house price of bags. It then tells you whether you should update your bag sizes or buy bag slots etc for EVERY type of bag. Definitely worth checking out… Here is the Link: http://www.guildwars…ap/page__st__57

Part 3: Adding Inventory By Purchasing Your Own Private Guildbank

We can be part of multiple guilds at once in Guildwars 2. This means that you could create a dummy guild just for the sake of a guild bank. While I think we should always represent our real guilds so that our task influence go to our guild, it is quite possible to buy the influence you need to purchase a guild bank. Here are the breakdowns…

Cost of Hiring a Guild Promoter

10 influence for 10 silver
100 influence for 1 gold
1,000 influence for 10 gold
10,000 influence for 100 gold

Cost of adding a guild bank

500 influence to research Architecture Level 1
1,000 influence to research Architecture Level 2
1,000 influence to add a 50 slot guild bank (requires level 2)
5,000 influence to research Architecture Level 3
??? influence to research Architecture Level 4
5,000 influence to add 100 additional slots to your guild bank (requires level 4)
??? influence to research Architecture Level 5
10,000 influence to add an additional 100 slots to your guild bank (requires level 5)

Analysis

This means that it will cost a mere 25 gold to add the first 50 slots to your personal guild bank. That is about 50 silver per slot and is comparable to the jump from 15 slot packs to 18 slot packs.

While we don’t know right now how much architecture level 4 and 5 will cost, let’s assume that they are 10,000 and 20,000 respectively. This means that the next 100 slots would be 200 gold or 2 gold a slot. The final 100 would be 300 gold or 3 gold a slot. Note that both of those are better deals than moving to 20 slot packs (although using this route will probably take over a month of real life time).

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I hope this helps!

– Jerich of Gaiscioch / Sanctum of Rall

P.S. Thank you Shayne Hawke for pointing out a minor calculation error (which caused around a 10% error)! I have modified the OP to reflect this.