Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic

By far, one of the best (if not, the best) tool to have in the game in terms of QoL. This item salvages gear and items in your inventory with a click of a button. It's super convenient when farming, opening bags, opening Unidentified Gear, and any other content that you would get a lot of salvagable items from. This is most useful for blue and green identified gear.

I recommend putting this in a Shared Inventory slot so that you can use this item for all characters. You never have to buy basic salvage kits ever again!

Runecrafter's Salvage-o-Matic

Just as Copper-Fed, it brings the same QoL change, but is more useful for salvaging specifically green identified gear. The reason is due to an increase of overall profits via more charms/symbols dropping. While this item may not be in the gemstore all the time, it is a nice investment for when it does.

Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic

Just as Copper-Fed and Runecrafter's, it brings the same QoL change, but is more useful for salvaging specifically rare or cheap exotic identified gear. The reason is because it brings the same benefits as Mystic Salvage kits, but without having to craft the kits. It is too expensive to use on blue and green gear.

Infinite Volatile Magic Gathering Tools

While pretty expensive, in the long run, you can make an extreme amount of profits. This is especially true if you gather on a frequent bases. All the tools always offers:
1) Unbreakable gathering tools
2) 3 Account-bound Glyph of Voltality

The unbreakable tools are good enough for the price, but the Glyphs are what's going to give you long-term profits. Each strike will grant some Volatile Magic. Over time, you'll end up having thousands racked up from purely gathering, which you can exchange for Trophy Shipments via LS4 vendors. Check out this page for how much profits you'd get per Volatile Magic to get a better idea.

Candy Corn Gobbler

This is a seasonal gobbler that comes during the Halloween festival. Use only 3 candy corns and you can get a random chance to either be transformed into a halloween creature or grant either of these boosts (can stack duration):
- 50% EXP All game types, 50% PVP and WVW reward track, 100% EXP from kill streaks
- 50% MF, 50% Chance of critical crafting EXP, 33% chance extra gathering strike, 10s of swiftness after gathering, summons a Black Lion Merchant if your inventory is full after gathering (20-min cooldown)
- 50% Karma boost
- 15% Movement speed
- 5% Damage reduction
- Regenerate health

Snowflake Gobbler

This is a seasonal gobbler that comes during the Wintersday festival. Consume 5 Snowflakes and recieve either a Wintersday Gift or a buff (stacks duration):
- 25% EXP from kills
- 25% Gold from kills
- 25% PVP and WVW Reward track gain

Zhaitaffy Gobbler

This is a seasonal gobbler that comes during the Dragonbash festival. Consume 25 Zhaitaffy and recieve either a Dragon Coffer or a buff (stacks duration):
- 25% EXP from kills
- 25% Gold from kills
- 25% PVP and WVW Reward track gain

Consortium Harvesting Sickle

This specific sickle is extremely fast. It has the best cast time with no aftercast. To compare the speeds of other popular sickles, head to this page. After gathering with this tool, gathering plants in any other tool will make them seem too slow. Not to mention, having an unbreakable tool is always handy!

Choya Mining Tool

This specific mining tool is convenient with rich nodes or guild hall nodes. The tool actually strikes 5 times instead of the normal 4. With rich nodes, there's always 10 strikes per node. With 5, you only have to cast the animation twice instead of 3 times.

Shared Inventory Slot

The same offers a few free Shared Inventory slots if you've bought the expansions, but it's never enough! These are one of the best QoL items to buy. Here are some items that are great to have in the slots:
- Copper-Fed, other salvaging tools
- Unbreakable gathering tools. You can place the tools in here to easily swap them to other characters without having to go to a bank
- Portal scrolls
- White Mantle Portal Device
- Rewinder
- Eaters/Converters
- Unidentified gear - If you're an altoholic, managing Unidentified Gear is easier in one central location
- Lounge pass keys
- Food
- Any other item you use on many characters

Mistlock Santuary

Honestly, getting any lounge pass is worth it (my favorite is Lava Lounge). The benefit of lounges is that you can instantly go to a hub full of vendors, TP, bank, crafting stations, and more. Mistlock is a favorite because vendors are close together, you can traverse easily, and it's an instanced map where if you leave you'll go back to your previous location.

Storage Expander

250 is not enough to store your materials! Though, when you buy more, you need to get even more LOL. This QoL change is gamechanging, especially if you craft a lot. Your inventory will also be cleaner as when you direct deposit, there's less chances of your storage becoming full and filling your inventory with the overflow materials.

Bank Tab Expansion

Having only 1 to start with is a crime. More bank tabs are extremely useful for the long-term because eventually you'll start stocking up on items that are boosters, can't be deposited via material storage, or saving up for something.

Bag Slot Expansion

As someone who does trains often and open bags for research, having the most amount of bag space available is less of a hassel of inventory management.

Character Slot Expansion

There is a max of 72 characters slots, but I use extra ones for either:
- More characters to play
- Alt parking
- Key farming

Build Template Expansion

Both Equipment and Build Template Expansion go hand-in-hand. This is great if you love to play a variety of builds. Personally, I need some for each character so I can play it in different styles to make things more interesting.

Equipment Template Expansion

Both Equipment and Build Template Expansion go hand-in-hand. This is great if you love to play a variety of builds. Personally, I need some for each character so I can play it in different styles to make things more interesting.

Prototype Position Rewinder

This item can be aquired from a heart vendor at Anniogel Encampment Waypoint [&BCULAAA=].

Using the item will grant the player to rewind the character's position to it's location where it was used. This is best used as a portal back for jumping puzzles, or uncertain areas.

Portable United Legions Waystation

With the completion of most or all of the Icebrood Saga "United Legions Waystation Synchronization", you will be able to grab all sorts of special actions.

1. Electromagical Pulse (EMP) - This allows you to bring major CC quickly
2. Remote Charge - Use on structures in Drizzlewood Coast to destroy them quickly
3. Medizooka - Allow yourself to be thrown into the air to drop boon missiles at friends

Obtain this by exchanging at a War Supply/Quartermaster vendor at Drizzlewood Coast or a waystation that's already placed in the open world.

Season 3 Portal Tome

At every Season 3 map, there is an Unbound trader NPC that you can exchange for a portal scroll for that respective map. Each vendor will also offer the Tome, but you only need to buy one. Use the Tome to store the scrolls to make it easy to teleport to all 6 maps.

Maps:
1. Bloodstone Fen
2. Ember Bay
3. Bitterfrost Frontier
4. Lake Doric
5. Draconis Mons
6. Siren's Landing

Season 4 Portal Tome

At every Season 4 map, there is an Volatile trader NPC that you can exchange for a portal scroll for that respective map. Each vendor will also offer the Tome, but you only need to buy one. Use the Tome to store the scrolls to make it easy to teleport to all 6 maps. This also includes Sun's Refuge in Jahai Bluffs.

Maps:
1. Domain of Istan
2. Sandswept Isles
3. Domain of Kourna
4. Jahai Bluffs
5. Thunderhead Peaks
6. Dragonfall

Icebrood Saga Portal Tome

At every Season 5 (Icebrood Saga) map, there is an Karma/currency trader NPC that you can exchange for a portal scroll for that respective map. Each vendor will also offer the Tome, but you only need to buy one. Use the Tome to store the scrolls to make it easy to teleport to all the maps. This also includes Eye of the North hub.

Maps:
1. Grothmar Valley
2. Bjora Marches
3. Eye of the North
4. Drizzlewood Coast

White Mantle Portal Device

At the Aerodrome, [&BCAJAAA=], at the Magnitide Shard vendor, you can buy a portal that works similarly to Mesmer portals. The difference is that it's on a 30 minute cooldown and has a limit of 20 people to teleport when activated. This can be minigated by GGing twice in fractals. The Portal Device is often used in meta strats for high end fractals.

Gleam of Sentience

This item holds multiple eaters at once. Each eater can be obtained by completing various LS3 achievements. You could exchange Bloodstone Dust, Dragonite Ore, Empyreal Fragments, and Unbound Magic for various loots such as Unidentified Gear and junk.

Guides for each eater (name - achievement):
Sentient Aberration - Token Collector
Sentient Anomaly - The Memoirs of Justiciar Bauer + Grand Savant Valis the Learned's Research Journal + Apprentice Kasandra's Notebook
Sentient Oddity - Cin Business
Sentient Singularity - Lesson Learned

Star of Gratitude

The Star could consume up to 300 Empyreal Fragments a day for random loot such as Unidentified Gear and junk.

This can only be obtained by starting a collection during Wintersday. Though, you could finish the collection after Wintersday is over. To start, check out this walkthrough. Then, complete this achievement.

Mawdrey II

Mawdrey could consume up to 300 Bloodstone Dust a day for random loot such as Unidentified Gear and junk.

This can only be obtained by doing a collection of crafting and achievements. Here's a full wiki guide.

Princess

Princess could consume up to 300 Dragonite Ore a day for random loot such as Unidentified Gear and junk.

This can only be obtained by doing a collection achievement. Here's a full wiki guide.

Herta

Herta can consume an entire stack of Bloodstone Dust (250)! for loots. This can only be done once per day, per account.

This can only be obtained by doing a collection achievement. Here's a full video guide by AyinMaiden.

Ley-Energy Matter Converter

On the daily, get one key from one of the HoT maps. Machete, Vial of Chak Acid, Exalted Key, or Pact Crowbar.

You could also exchange Ley-line crystals, Aurillium, and Airship Parts for random loot such as Obsidian Shards, Jewels, crafting materials, and other currencies.

Obtain this by kiling the Mouth of Mordremoth in under 20 minutes in Dragon's Stand.