Portable exchanger

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Portable exchangers (commonly referred to as gobblers, or converters) 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 portable exchangers[edit]

Most of these portable exchangers 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.

Unique exchangers[edit]

The functionality of these portable exchangers is unique, and that's the reason why these are commonly referred to as gobblers, or converters.

Portable exchangers Daily
uses
Consumption Vendor
interface
Reward Acquisition Requirement for acquisition
Festival Tokens
Candy Corn Gobbler Pack.pngCandy Corn Gobbler Unlimited
Pieces of Candy Corn
Tick green.png Random transformation or boost Gem Store during Halloween
Snowflake Gobbler.pngSnowflake Gobbler Unlimited
Snowflake.png
Tick green.png Wintersday Gift.pngWintersday Gift or
Dragon's Rage.pngFestival Gobbler Boost
Gem Store during Wintersday
Zhaitaffy Gobbler.pngZhaitaffy Gobbler Unlimited
25 Pieces of Zhaitaffy
Tick green.png Dragon Coffer.pngDragon Coffer or
Dragon's Rage.pngFestival Gobbler Boost
Gem Store during Dragon Bash
Crafting Materials
Herta.pngHerta 1
250 Pile of Bloodstone Dust.png
Tick green.png Mists Stone.pngGlowing Stone A Study in Gold + Where Exalted Dare Heart of Thorns
Mawdrey II.pngMawdrey II 5
50 Pile of Bloodstone Dust.png
Tick green.png Gift from Mawdrey II.pngGift from Mawdrey II Crafting Mawdrey The Dragon's Reach: Part 1 and Part 2 (LW2, ep. 3–4)
Princess.pngPrincess 5
50 Dragonite Ore.png
Tick green.png Gift from Mawdrey II.pngGunk-Covered Pellet Lion's Arch Exterminator
Star of Gratitude.pngStar of Gratitude 5
50 Empyreal Fragment.png
Tick green.png Generosity's Reward.pngGenerosity's Reward Grawnk Munch + For the Children! Active Wintersday event
Spearmarshal's Plea.pngSpearmarshal's Plea 3
25 Eye of Kormir.png
Tick green.png Divine Reliquary.pngSunspear Redemption Wish Remains of the Last Spearmarshal Path of Fire + Path of Fire story completion
Sentient Aberration.pngSentient Aberration 6
25 Dragonite Ore.png + 25 Empyreal Fragment.png
Tick green.png Fluctuating Mass.pngFluctuating Mass Token Collector Heart of Thorns + Rising Flames (LW3, ep. 2)
Sentient Anomaly.pngSentient Anomaly 6
25 Dragonite Ore.png + 25 Pile of Bloodstone Dust.png
Tick green.png Fluctuating Mass.pngFluctuating Mass Conspiracy of Dunces Heart of Thorns + Out of the Shadows (LW3, ep. 1)
Sentient Oddity.pngSentient Oddity 6
25 Empyreal Fragment.png + 25 Pile of Bloodstone Dust.png
Tick green.png Fluctuating Mass.pngFluctuating Mass Cin Business Heart of Thorns + The Head of the Snake (LW3, ep. 4)
Sentient Singularity.pngGleam of Sentience 6
6
6
6
25 Dragonite Ore.png + 25 Pile of Bloodstone Dust.png
25 Empyreal Fragment.png + 25 Pile of Bloodstone Dust.png
25 Dragonite Ore.png + 25 Empyreal Fragment.png
150 Unbound Magic.png
Tick green.png Fluctuating Mass.pngFluctuating 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.pngShards of Glory Converter 5
50 Shard of Glory.png
Tick green.png Timeless Bag of Items.pngTimeless Bag of Items League Vendor (SPvP)
Memory Gobbler.pngMemory Gobbler 5
50 Memory of Battle.png
Tick green.png Timeless Bag of Items.pngTimeless Bag of Items Skirmish Supervisor (WvW)
Currencies
Sentient Singularity.pngSentient Singularity 6
150 Unbound Magic.png
Talk end option tango.png Fluctuating Mass.pngFluctuating Mass Lessons Learned Heart of Thorns + Flashpoint (LW3, ep. 5)
Sentient Singularity.pngVolatile Singularity 6
150 Volatile Magic.png
Talk end option tango.png Fluctuating Mass.pngVolatile Mass Memorabilia Path of Fire + A Star to Guide Us (LW4, ep. 4)
Fractal Reliquary.pngFractal Reliquary 1
25 Fractal Relics
Tick green.png Items Ascended Recycling
Karmic Converter.pngKarmic Converter 1 4,998 Karma Tick green.png Items Exotic Hunter
Ley-Energy Matter Converter.pngLey-Energy Matter Converter 1
1
1
1
Free
25 Airship Part
25 Lump of Aurillium
25 Ley Line Crystal
Tick green.png Items Mouth of Mordremoth Master
Airship Essence.pngAirship Essence
Aurillium Essence.pngAurillium Essence
Ley-Line Crystal Essence.pngLey-Line Crystal Essence
Heart of Thorns

Non-unique portable exchangers[edit]

Unlike how other portable exchangers work, these are always available from the game through interacting with the originated merchant of those items.

Portable exchangers Daily
uses
Consumption Vendor
interface
Reward Acquisition Requirement for acquisition
Portable Magnetite Shard Exchange.pngPortable Magnetite Shard Exchange Unlimited
Amount of Magnetite Shard.png and Gold
Tick green.png Items Greeted as Liberators Heart of Thorns
Portable Magnetite Shard Exchange.pngQadim's Portable Magnetite Shard Exchange Unlimited
Amount of Magnetite Shard.png and Gold
Tick green.png Items More of Qadim's Top-Tier Supplies Path of Fire
Mechanical Golem Eye.pngTarrktun Personal Delivery Portal 20 per item
Amount of Glob of Ectoplasm and Gold
Tick green.png Items Legendary Tarrktun Supporter
Collector's Edition Sandstorm.pngCollector's Edition Sandstorm 20 per item
Amount of Glob of Ectoplasm and Gold
Tick green.png Items Legendary Sandstorm Player Path of Fire
Permanent Portable Provisioner.pngPermanent Portable Provisioner Unlimited
Amount of WvW Currencies or Gold
Tick green.png Items World versus World Merchants
Portable Wizard's Tower Exchange.pngPortable Wizard's Tower Exchange Unlimited
Amount of Map Currencies
Tick green.png Items Gharr Leadclaw Secrets of the Obscure

Trivia[edit]

  • The first portable exchangers 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.[1]
  • 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 [2]
    • 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[edit]

  1. ^ Comment by Dev, Reddit
  2. ^ Comment by Dev, Forums