Your Storage

Hi, i was just wondering what some people keep in their storage, because mine seems to be full all the time I was thinking about buying more armor for me characters, and was wondering if most ppl keep it in their storage, or on the character itself. Thanks ~Blackest Monk

I think this depends on the number of campaigns you have. I have 4 tabs plus a material tab because I have all the campaigns and paid the 50g for the Factions material upgrade. I use one tab to hold dyes which are stackable (this is because Anet hasn't made dyes or keys a separate tab which they should be -- Thanks Anet!). I use two tabs for Weapons/Armor. The rest are modifiers and insignias.

Most people have "mules" which are characters that they don't really play, but just exist to hold more stuff. As the storage chest is account based, after completing some quests all your characters will have access to the same chest so you can simply swap items back and forth between characters.

I'm not much of a packrat so I haven't completely filled my storage yet, but I have it pretty well organized.

Tab 1: Reward Items (monastery credits, trade contracts, Imperial Commendations, etc), Stuff that's in transit for another char or destined for the mules.

Tab 2: MiniPets, overflow from Tab 1

Tab 3: mostly empty. I have 1 set of armor in there that I keep meaning to delete.

Tab 4: Keys, collector items that I keep which isn't many. I mostly merch the collector stuff unless I know of an upcoming benefit (Charr Carvings, Orr emblems, Grawl Necklaces)

I also have 2 Mules and I'm trying to sell down enough stuff to delete one of them.

Mule 1 holds all dyes, holiday stuff and things that I'll need for future use (Victory Tokens, sugar drinks, candy canes)
Mule 2 holds all the gold and green weapons I need to sell.

I don't buy much armor. I look at all the various armor choices for each profession and pick the one that I like the look of the best. That's the one I buy. It's rare that one of my characters has a 2nd armor set. If they do, it's for a special build that's run alot like 55. In that case the 2nd set is stored in one of bags on that char.

Tab 1 - Armor
Tab 2 - Gold weapons
Tab 3 - Greens
Tab 4 - Extension of Materials/Miscellaneous Crap

if my toons decide they need more armor I wont let them put it in storage...they carry all their extra stuff with them--armor and weapons!
My storage is for all the toons, so I try to keep it simple:
tab 1 is for the collectable stuff from nightfall (m masks, djinn essences, etc)
tab 2 is for extra materials ( I am trying to get 250 of everything in the materials tab, some of it is cheaper to craft so I keep extra stuff there)
tab 3 is for weapons ---gold ones that a hero might want to use, wrappings, hafts, etc and a few collectable items from prophecies just waiting to get to that mule
tab 4 is for factions collectable junk (warden horns, jade bracelets, etc.) and those things you can use for more salvage kits (kourman coins, ancient artifacts, etc).
I have 4 mules that also have more junk
mule 1 has the xmas collectables stuff (everything from the last xmas event--mantrid pincers, spider legs, uncoutous remains etc), along with a few lesser nightfall collectable things (starter island stuff).
mule 2 has all those dumb minipets and xmas stuff (poppers, sparklers, etc)
mule 3 has hard to get collectable things including pre-sear stuff.
mule 4 has more weapons and more collectable things etc.....and some more scrolls that no one (toons) seems to want anymore.

as the avatar presents itself I am a pack rat.
(and 3 new toons may also become mules! )

Tab 1 - Stuff I find while farming (usually gets sold within the hour)
Tab 2 - Festival hats/masks, and some dyes.
Tab 3 - All my main character's 15K armors
Tab 4 - The rest of my main character's 15k armors

1: Miniatures. (3 slots lefts, XD)
2: Reward Tokens(Monastery Credits, Battle Commendations...) and mistery quest items (Preserved Red Irirs Flowers, Branches of Juni Berries...).
3: Trophies. Specially those with 'continuous' use: Dragon Flesh, Iboga Leaves, Skale Fins, Sentient Spores, Kournan Pendants, Revel Manifests, etc...
4: Trade slot: Gold items, weapon upgrades, runes and other stuff to be used by other characters and heroes.

Mule °1: Golds, Greens, Mods, Inscriptions
Mule °2: Golds, Greens, Mods, Inscriptions
Tab °1: Stuff I want to sell in the near future
Tab °2: Costumized Weapons of my Warrior that aren't being used anymore
Tab °3: Dyes & Keys + Leftovers from Tab °1
Tab °4: Leftovers from my Mules and Tabs

In all this I have about 5 open spaces to use

LOL, I thought I was the only 1 crazy enough to attempt that. Nice to know I have company.

I'm jealous. What's your secret??

so it seems the way to go, is to get a mule or two. Thanks alot for your input.
the way i go is:
1. Misc. and overflow crafting items
2. Runes and insignias, usually always filled
3. Dyes and other weapons used for special farming. (zealous axes and sheilds and stuff)
4. Weapons, tomes, inscriptions.(usually filled too)

Tab1: dyes,commendations(all variations), empty slots for transferring items
Tab2: Warrior 'special use' gear, gold items
Tab3: Ranger 'special use' gear, bows
Tab4: runes, insignias, overflow materials

Mules FTW! I try to keep a couple tabs on my vault free to store worthwhile items when questing. Then, after I'm done, I can transfer those items to the appropriate mule. Two accounts = double vault storage.

Items I am too scared to leave on characters for fear of merching.

Armour sets which I dont have room on the character for and need quick access to.

Ecto

Just make some storage keepers.

I got:

• A rune keeper
• A materials/dye keeper
• A "random stuff" keeper

And I may make a weapons keeper later.

Let me think:
- tab 1 is for keeping stuff that can be accessed by all characters, like tomes
It also has free space to swap part of character inventory to storage for vanquishing.
- tab 2 has all my keys (I keep the ones that count for title) and a couple of winter weapons.
- tab 3 has elonian collectable drops
- tab 4 has weapons (gold/green)

Then I have mule Rt, mule Para, mule Derv with all kinds of idiotic stuff (tons of crafting materials, more weapons) and festival items.
I clean them about every two-three months, specially the weapons (if I found a better one, I replace the old one and merch that).

I have all three campaigns and material storage, but 3-5 of my 9 characters are storage characters at any given time; I wouldn't really call them mules, since I'm always moving stuff around and losing track of it -.- . Heroes can work, if you keep a lot of equipment, but it's even easier to lose track of stuff that way.

Slot I - III: It keeps changing; there's stuff from in-game events, armor, weapons, mods, and so on. Yay, mass chaos! :P When it first came out, though, I intended to leave stuff like the -50 HP cesta and various other equipment (I rarely customize anything.) that'd be useful between characters. The bottom half of III, if not all of it, usually has some character's armor in it and tomes. With the armor, I'd say go for it, if you have enough space to have at least one character who only holds what it needs and if the new armor sets serve a purpose. e.g. You don't really need two full sets of armor with Radiant insignias, just replace the pieces.

IV: Dyes and some Minipets (rest just get shuffled around at random)

Why not just use an item that you can't sell to block it off (if you haven't already considered it)? In the character's inventory, I usually start off with equipment/armor, then something like a Festival Ticket, and have the rest of it empty for rapidly selling drops, starting from the bottom. It hasn't failed me yet :P.

I'm a huge packrat. 9 characters, 3 campaigns, 4 slots for storage, 2 bags of 10 slots each character, 1 bag of 5 slots for each character, 9 back packs, all full!

Just kidding, storage is completely full (except the materials, some slots are not full yet), characters bags and pouches are all full, backpacks are about 85% full for each.

I used to keep all materials, then I started to get full with everything, so I keep selling them. Runes in tab 1, dyes in tab 3, festival stuff in tab 2, items and inscriptions in tab 4.

Its a good idea but for me some risks are not worth taking. I could accidently click on it and merch during lag or something

1- Tomes - In order Warrior --> Dervish as they are in the proffesion list with Norms over Elites
2- Tokens and festival stuff
3- Dye's (Alphabetical) and Scrolls
4- Random stuff

lol

My storage system:

Tabs: 1-2 max inscribable weapons
Tab 3: Max and near perfect insignias & runes also some extra regs
Tab 4: High level insignias (i.e. sword pommel +25 health) for heros. I hold on to these so when I create a new character I'm ready to make the heros rock. Why don't people put insignias and runes on their heros????

hehe, JeniM was the smart one, taking screenshots instead of typing everything out.

I don't want to waste a salvage on it later on or forget about where it is. I don't really have enough for it to be a problem. I did used to have a character full of runes, though that changed after I made more characters, heh.

Mines mostly dyes, festival items, and stuff for sale. I don't see the point of putting armor in storage, because if you realise you need to swap armor sets, you don't have access to it.

Tab 1: Miscellaneous stuff ie. tomes, tokens, overflow from other tabs
Tab 2: Weapons
Tab 3: Mods
Tab 4: Holiday stuff

I have the problem of being an armour and caster weapon addict >_<

Tab 1: reserved for storage shuffle (throwing extra armours on there for when I am farming/etc.)
Tab 2: random junk
Tab 3: shared caster weaponry (swords, axes, shields, etc)
Tab 4: more shared caster weaponry and shared minipets (each character carries a minipet on them as well)

I also have a couple mules, for stuff I'm planning to sell, extra storage for my main characters, and some guild storage. On my second account I keep all my stacks of materials.

Tab 1: Keys & Minis
Tab 2: Tomes
Tab 3: Random Stuff I have to put somewhere
Tab 4: Armors
Material Tab: Materials
Mule 1: Just gold weapons
Mule 2: Stackable stuff (dyes, materials etc...)
Mule 3: Weapon Mods
Mule 4: Runes


We dont need more storage options! ......... (that was me being sarcastic )
More storage! Less mules!

Tab 1 : weapons, tomes and scrolls
Tab 2 : Runes + insignias
Tab 3 : Holyday stuff + dye
Tab 4 : Armor

And since I don't really play withmy ranger or warrior, there inventory holds what my storage can't hold.

Anet should make Storage for Dyes and runes, like they have for materials.....lets see how long it takes them to think of that one

tab 1: miscellaneous runes, tomes, gems, quest reward items, keys, unid golds to be id'ed on my ranger later
tab 2: dyes and bows
tab 3: minipets, gold and green items i'm trying to sell
tab 4: weapon upgrades and inscriptions

let's see
Tab 1: Dyes, rewards (kournan coins, battle commendations etc) extra room for golds to be unid by my title hog. ^^;
Tab 2: Weapons and shields, some upgrades.
Tab 3: Extra armor sets, some tomes and inscribed shards XD
Tab 4: Extra stacks of materials for GW:EN

Umm just wondering ^^ but how do you get 4 Tabs in your bank? I know it sounds noob :P

Each campaign gives you one more tab

My System is by far the most complex I have ever seen:

Tab 1: Crap
Tab 2: Crap
Tab 3: More Crap
Tab 4: To be filled: With more crap..

Storage

Golds to be sold

Tab 1: Warrior + Ranger
Tab 2: Ele + Mesmer
Tab 3: Monk + Necro
Tab 4: Campaign Specific Professions

Mules:
Snack + Party Mule (Has the 10,000 Alcohol + Cake Im slowly working through along with things like Fireworks + Tonics)
Mod Mule: All those perfect mods (everyone must have one of these)
Material Mule
Minipet Mule (White in Big Bag, Green in little, and Purple and Gold in the other two)
Fashion Mule: Armour and Dye

ooo I do Love order

My storage is nuts. Really should sell some stuff.

Tab 1: All prized swords. Crystalline, oni, elemental, zodiac, golden phoenix and pretty much every sword ever created.

Tab 2: All prized axes. Stygian reaver, dwarven, serpent, chaos and tons of other axes.

Tab 3: Prized shields. Every skin in existence.

Tab 4: Random stuff for sale. Otherwise more perfect swords, axes, and shields I couldn't fit in tabs 1-3.

Then there's a pvp character for dyes/tomes/item upgrades. A ranger with just about every bow ever made. Finally another pvp mule with storage for mini pets. I manage to have space oddly enough.

Tab1: Reward Tokens (Monastery Credits, etc), Collector Items (Griffon Wings, etc) shared among characters
Tab2: Collector Items (Plague Idols, etc) shared among characters
Tab3: Collector Items (Hecket Tongues, etc) shared among characters
Tab4: Dyes, Mods, Insciptions

PvP chars double as mules (no encumbrances anyways)
Mule1: Pets, Golds, Mods, Runes, Insignias
Mule2: Holiday items, Greens, Inscriptions

Too bad GWEN does not come with any new mule slots

Account 1:
Tab 1: Elite Tomes and Normal Tomes
Tab 2: Dyes
Tab 3 and 4: Mini Pet Collection
Character 1-10: PvE to play on. Sometimes have things stored that I'm working on selling
Character 11-13: PvP: 2 are extra storage with commonly requested professions, 3rd is my rerolling slot

Account 2:
Tab 1-4: Misc Sales Items
Character 1: Sales Items
Character 2-11: Storage items for items awaiting to be sold

Account 3:
Tab 1-4: Misc Storage
Character 1: Sales items
Character 2: Collectible drops
Character 3-4: Items to be used for Account #1 PvE characters and heroes
Character 5-8: Items awaiting mods to be used for PvE

Account 4:
Tab 1-4 and Character slots 1-12: Tyrian, Canthan, Elonian Green collection
Just enough to hold every green from all 3 campaigns. New character slots (or another account purchased) will probably be added to take into account GWEN items

Account 5:
Tab 1-4: Complete Elementalist Armor Collection
Character 1 and 2: Complete Necromancer Armor Collection
Character 3 and 4: Remaining Armors (not full collections yet)

Account 6 and 7:
Tab 1-2 and Character slots 1-4: Unid Golds waiting to be sold
As Armor collection grows, spillover from Account 5 will be placed in here and I'll just keep less inventory of Unid Golds.
Also used for guild storage.

Excel spreadsheets are extremely useful to keep track of inventory. Accounts 2 and 3 are used for selling stuff while I'm playing on Account 1. All 3 are used to sell if I'm only trading atm.

For those wondering why I spent the money to pay for these accounts, it's still less than I would normally pay if I was buying games that I play for the equivalent amount of time. Console game: $30-$50 and lasts roughly 20-40 hours (or 160 hours when I stat maxed in FFX and stat maxed 120 hours in FF X-2). With roughly 2500 hours on my main account in Guild Wars now, that still comes out to less money if I was buying new games a lot. And it's still cheaper than spending $60 a month for City of Heroes (had 4 accounts for that game . ..).

tab 1-4, and somehow overflown into some chars' inventories:

measure for measure inscriptions, and there is no way i am going to get rid of those any time soon lolol packrat ftw ._.