Updating Your Wallet

[Karizee]

Updating Your Wallet

by Matthew Pennebaker on June 10, 2015


Hello, everyone! Matt Pennebaker here from the rewards team, and I want to talk about upcoming changes to the wallet. Let’s jump right in.
Where Is It?

Veteran wallet users know that if you want to check out your current stockpile of wealth, you head to the Hero panel and click on the wallet tab. There you can find all of your currencies laid out in a big grid. You can also navigate there from the little + button in the bottom of your inventory, but that results in opening two windows to view one piece of information. Neither of these options make the wallet easy to find or use, so we’ve moved the wallet to the Inventory panel. Clicking the Wallet button will now toggle your inventory to the wallet view.


What Does It Look Like?

The grid view of the old wallet, while nice to look at, took up a lot of space and didn’t leave much room to expand. Since the wallet is functionally a list of numbers, that’s what we decided to visually display. It’s now much more compact, with the option to filter it, and this makes future additions much easier. At the top of the wallet is a drop-down menu that will filter the wallet to display only the currency categories you want to see.

Hover your mouse over a currency to display its details—some of which you can click for extra functionality, indicated by an icon appearing to the far right. Gems and gold will take you to the Gem Store and Currency Exchange, respectively, while dungeon currencies show you where the entrances to their dungeons are.

As an added bonus, we’ve slightly changed how currencies display in the bottom of your inventory. Your gold will always be there, but the other visible currency will change based on where you are. For example, in World vs. World you’ll see badges of honor, and while in the Fractals of the Mists you’ll see fractal relics.


Did Someone Say Additions?

We’ve added more currencies to the wallet! When you log in after the update, the following items will be converted to currencies and stored in your wallet:

• Pristine Fractal Relics
• WvW Tournament Claim Tickets
• Geodes
• Bandit Crests

These items will be automatically converted to the new versions of the currencies when the character holding them logs in, so be sure to check each of your characters’ inventories.


What about Skill Points?

Previously, we told you that endless sources of skill points will reward a different currency instead. The new wallet will house the new currency, spirit shards.

Currently, there are two sources of skill points. The first are limited sources, such as skill-point challenges and the level-up guide. The second are endlessly repeatable, such as scrolls of knowledge and leveling up after 80. Skill points also had two uses: unlocking skills, and buying materials for the Mystic Forge.

What we had were two systems that should have been using two different currencies, and now they do. Every source that used to give scrolls of knowledge will now give spirit shards, which Miyani will accept for her materials. A few things will change to accommodate this split:

• Tomes of knowledge will level you up if you are under level 80 and give one spirit shard if you’ve reached level 80.
• Writs of experience can only be used if you’re under level 80, and they can be traded in to Miyani for a tome of knowledge at a rate of 20 writs per tome.
• Leveling up after level 80 no longer grants skill points, but level 80 characters will be able to loot spirit shards off of monsters.
• Any scrolls of knowledge that you have in your possession will automatically be converted to spirit shards, and any source that used to award scrolls of knowledge will now grant spirit shards.

The conversion of skill points to spirit shards will be automatic. This will happen on a per‑character basis, so make sure to log in on each character to receive your total count! I think you’ll be surprised at just how many spirit shards you have.

Thanks for reading, and we hope you enjoy the new wallet!


https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/u...g-your-wallet/

[PACOX]

I'm not sure what I want to do with my extra tomes and scrolls at this point, add them to my current toons as skill points or let them turn into spirit shards.

[Arlee]

I'm not sure what I want to do with my extra tomes and scrolls at this point, add them to my current toons as skill points or let them turn into spirit shards.

Tomes you should hold on to if you ever want to level another toon and want to speed it along a bit. Scrolls it really doesn't matter if you use them or not at this point.

[rhandric]

Tomes you should hold on to if you ever want to level another toon and want to speed it along a bit. Scrolls it really doesn't matter if you use them or not at this point.

It depends on how they convert "extra" skill points to the spirit shards. If any skill point beyond what you've currently unlocked via levels/skill challenges is returned as shards, then it doesn't matter. If they instead hard cap how many you could get based on challenges + leveling, and then refund based on the cap (and any challenge you complete after the change gives you shards instead of skill (hero?) points, then using the scrolls now could save you some time later. Which route they'll go is still unknown; I would expect the former, but that would also be punishing to WvW heroes, who've already cried foul at the sheer mention of these changes on the official forums.

[Edge-]

Just what GW2 needs, even more currencies!

Seriously, I have no clue what 75% of the existing ones are even for. It's such a cluttered mess of awful.

[rhandric]

Well, these things already exist as currencies, just not as currencies. Getting them out of our inventory is a nice step. Currently, it's also annoying if you, for example, farm Silverwastes on multiple characters, as you'll end up with bandit crests all over the place instead of centralized in the currency tab where they should (and will) be.

[Arlee]

It depends on how they convert "extra" skill points to the spirit shards. If any skill point beyond what you've currently unlocked via levels/skill challenges is returned as shards, then it doesn't matter. If they instead hard cap how many you could get based on challenges + leveling, and then refund based on the cap (and any challenge you complete after the change gives you shards instead of skill (hero?) points, then using the scrolls now could save you some time later. Which route they'll go is still unknown; I would expect the former, but that would also be punishing to WvW heroes, who've already cried foul at the sheer mention of these changes on the official forums.

Everything will be reset. You'll have to unlock the things again and you get a number of points equal to how many you would have gotten from leveling and from the skill points around the world. After that amount all extra will be converted to the shards. So it doesn't actually matter what you do with them now.

[rhandric]

Everything will be reset. You'll have to unlock the things again and you get a number of points equal to how many you would have gotten from leveling and from the skill points around the world. After that amount all extra will be converted to the shards. So it doesn't actually matter what you do with them now.

That's what I'm expecting, too, but I haven't seen confirmation one way or the other. All I know is I've seen a lot of rage on the forums from (mostly) WvWers who don't want to have to do PvE to unlock everything.

[Arlee]

That's what I'm expecting, too, but I haven't seen confirmation one way or the other. All I know is I've seen a lot of rage on the forums from (mostly) WvWers who don't want to have to do PvE to unlock everything.

They said way back on the stream when they went over the changes everything will be refunded and you'll have go back and reunlock everything again. They even said back then that you'll get points for each level and each skill point in the world you have done, and the excess will be the new thing. People are just not remembering

[rhandric]

They said way back on the stream when they went over the changes everything will be refunded and you'll have go back and reunlock everything again. They even said back then that you'll get points for each level and each skill point in the world you have done, and the excess will be the new thing. People are just not remembering

Ah ok. I never actually watched the stream, just read summaries In that case, yeah, there's absolutely no difference between using skill scrolls now or later.

[Svifnymr]

Ah ok. I never actually watched the stream, just read summaries In that case, yeah, there's absolutely no difference between using skill scrolls now or later.

A lot less clicking to wait... :-p

[rhandric]

A lot less clicking to wait... :-p

Absolutely :P Which is why my ~2 stacks is staying until the patch