Converter

Converters (commonly referred to as gobblers) are a type of gizmo that provides bonus rewards in exchange for a currency or item. Many converters have a maximum limit for uses or transactions per day. Once used up, players must wait until the server reset to obtain more rewards. Using multiple copies of the item will not allow access to additional rewards, since all copies of an item share the same limit for an account.

List of converters

Most of these converters open a vendor interface with only one option, they consume crafting materials or currencies from your inventory and material storage, producing an instant reward such as booster effects or packaged goods.

Converter	Daily uses	Consumption	Vendor interface	Reward	Acquisition	Requirement for acquisition
Festival Tokens
Candy Corn Gobbler	Unlimited	3		Random transformation or boost	Gem Store during Halloween
Snowflake Gobbler	Unlimited	5		Wintersday Gift or Festival Gobbler Boost	Gem Store during Wintersday
Zhaitaffy Gobbler	Unlimited	25		Dragon Coffer or Festival Gobbler Boost	Gem Store during Dragon Bash
Crafting Materials
Herta	1	250		Glowing Stone	A Study in Gold + Where Exalted Dare	Heart of Thorns
Mawdrey II	5	50		Gift from Mawdrey II	Crafting Mawdrey	The Dragon's Reach: Part 1 and Part 2 (LW2, ep. 3–4)
Princess	5	50		Gunk-Covered Pellet	Lion's Arch Exterminator
Star of Gratitude	5	50		Generosity's Reward	Grawnk Munch + For the Children!	Active Wintersday event
Spearmarshal's Plea	3	25		Sunspear Redemption Wish	Remains of the Last Spearmarshal	Path of Fire + Path of Fire story completion
Sentient Aberration	6	25  + 25		Fluctuating Mass	Token Collector	Heart of Thorns + Rising Flames (LW3, ep. 2)
Sentient Anomaly	6	25  + 25		Fluctuating Mass	Conspiracy of Dunces	Heart of Thorns + Out of the Shadows (LW3, ep. 1)
Sentient Oddity	6	25  + 25		Fluctuating Mass	Cin Business	Heart of Thorns + The Head of the Snake (LW3, ep. 4)
Gleam of Sentience	6 6 6 6	25  + 25  25  + 25  25  + 25  150		Fluctuating Mass	Combining Sentient Aberration, Anomaly, Oddity and Singularity.	Heart of Thorns + Living World Season 3 (episodes 1, 2, 4, 5)
Crafting materials (PvP, WvW)
Shards of Glory Converter	5	50		Timeless Bag of Items	League Vendor (SPvP)
Memory Gobbler	5	50		Timeless Bag of Items	Skirmish Supervisor (WvW)
Currencies
Sentient Singularity	6	150		Fluctuating Mass	Lessons Learned	Heart of Thorns + Flashpoint (LW3, ep. 5)
Volatile Singularity	6	150		Volatile Mass	Memorabilia	Path of Fire + A Star to Guide Us (LW4, ep. 4)
Fractal Reliquary	1	25		Items	Ascended Recycling
Karmic Converter	1	4,998		Items	Exotic Hunter
Ley-Energy Matter Converter	1 1 1 1	Free 25  25  25		Items	Mouth of Mordremoth Master Airship Essence Aurillium Essence Ley-Line Crystal Essence	Heart of Thorns
Portable Magnetite Shard Exchange	Unlimited	Amount of and Gold		Items	Greeted as Liberators	Heart of Thorns
Qadim's Portable Magnetite Shard Exchange	Unlimited	Amount of and Gold		Items	More of Qadim's Top-Tier Supplies	Path of Fire
Tarrktun Personal Delivery Portal	20 per item	Amount of and Gold		Items	Legendary Tarrktun Supporter
Collector's Edition Sandstorm	20 per item	Amount of and Gold		Items	Legendary Sandstorm Player	Path of Fire
Permanent Portable Provisioner	Unlimited	Amount of WvW Currencies or Gold		Items	World versus World Merchants

Trivia

• The first converter introduced into the game was Mawdrey II, primarily to drain the surplus of Piles of Bloodstone Dust acquired by accounts.
• Crafting material converters are called "gobblers" internally by the ArenaNet team.
• Arenanet updated many of the material converters functionality in the March 19th, 2024 update.
  • Prior to this most crafting material converters (except the Gleam of Sentience) as well as the Candy Corn Gobbler did not use the vendor interface and instead required their respective materials to be in your inventory to be used.
  • Previously the Candy Corn Gobbler could not be used more than once approximately every 5 seconds, which lead to some players resorting to using macros while AFK to accumulate boosts. Since you can now purchase multiple boosts in the vendor interface instantly this is no longer required.
  • An unintended change with the Candy Corn Gobbler after the update caused it to provide significantly less amount of the EXP buff than before. This was found to be an unintended bug fix of the old behavior, Arenanet rectified this and replicated the old behavior the following day in the March 20th, 2024 update
  • Mawdrey II, Princess and Star of Gratitude previously had a variable daily use limit of 3-6, this was standardised to 5 with the update as the vendor interface cannot provide variable usage limits. This should provide an average net positive in the amount of rewards given over time compared to before.

References

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Converters

Ascended Crafting Materials	Herta Mawdrey II Princess Star of Gratitude Gleam of Sentience Sentient Aberration Sentient Anomaly Sentient Oddity
Other Crafting Materials	Candy Corn Gobbler Snowflake Gobbler Memory Gobbler Shards of Glory Converter Zhaitaffy Gobbler
Currencies	Fractal Reliquary Karmic Converter Ley-Energy Matter Converter Tarrktun Personal Delivery Portal Collector's Edition Sandstorm Sentient Singularity Volatile Singularity