Guild Wars 2: Best Gizmo Items, Ranked

Key Takeaways

• Gizmos in Guild Wars 2 boost convenience and gold supplies for players, such as the Mystic Forge Conduit.
• The Copper Fed Salvage-O-Matic offers endless salvage without the hassle of constantly buying kits.
• Living World Portal Tomes provide easy access to important farming spots and save time on map navigation.

Guild Wars 2 offers 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 like crafting material farms run 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.

8 Mystic 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.

7 Copper 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, and for 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.

6 Living 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 of the best content in GW2 was 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.

5 Ascended 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).

4 Permanent Black Lion Contracts

Permanent Black Lion contracts are some of the most expensive items in Guild Wars 2‘s trading post. They offer tantalizing utilities, such as access to storage or crafting from anywhere in the world.

While the massive amount of gold required 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.

3 Prototype Position Rewinder

A Jumping Puzzle Hater’s Saving Grace

When jumping was added into the game as a mechanic as 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.

2 Two-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 if the mounts in Guild Wars 2 are 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.

1 Candy Corn Gobbler

The Biggest Boost For The Best Price

In terms of efficiency, this item is regularly touted by advanced Guild Wars 2 players 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 a corny Halloween-themed fancy dress shape can be irksome but ultimately worth it.