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[edit]
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
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Festival Tokens
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Candy Corn Gobbler
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Unlimited
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3
|
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Random transformation or boost
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Gem Store during Halloween
|
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Snowflake Gobbler
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Unlimited
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5
|
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Wintersday Gift or Festival Gobbler Boost
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Gem Store during Wintersday
|
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Zhaitaffy Gobbler
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Unlimited
|
25
|
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Dragon Coffer or Festival Gobbler Boost
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Gem Store during Dragon Bash
|
|
Crafting Materials
|
Herta
|
1
|
250
|
|
Glowing Stone
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A Study in Gold + Where Exalted Dare
|
Heart of Thorns
|
Mawdrey II
|
5
|
50
|
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Gift from Mawdrey II
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Crafting Mawdrey
|
The Dragon's Reach: Part 1 and Part 2 (LW2, ep. 3–4)
|
Princess
|
5
|
50
|
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Gunk-Covered Pellet
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Lion's Arch Exterminator
|
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Star of Gratitude
|
5
|
50
|
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Generosity's Reward
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Grawnk Munch + For the Children!
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Active Wintersday event
|
Spearmarshal's Plea
|
3
|
25
|
|
Sunspear Redemption Wish
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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
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6 6 6 6
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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
|
|
|
Items
|
Mouth of Mordremoth Master Airship Essence Aurillium Essence Ley-Line Crystal Essence
|
Heart of Thorns
|
Portable merchants
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Portable Magnetite Shard Exchange
|
Unlimited
|
|
|
Items
|
Greeted as Liberators
|
Heart of Thorns
|
Qadim's Portable Magnetite Shard Exchange
|
Unlimited
|
|
|
Items
|
More of Qadim's Top-Tier Supplies
|
Path of Fire
|
Tarrktun Personal Delivery Portal
|
20 per item
|
|
|
Items
|
Legendary Tarrktun Supporter
|
|
Collector's Edition Sandstorm
|
20 per item
|
|
|
Items
|
Legendary Sandstorm Player
|
Path of Fire
|
Permanent Portable Provisioner
|
Unlimited
|
|
|
Items
|
World versus World Merchants
|
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- 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.[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.
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