New player question about Housing.

[DaniTheHero]

Heya guys! I'm fairly new, around level 25 and I was thinking about getting my first house.
I like Everfall and my faction also owns it, was thinking of buying a house there but i'm conflicted if I should just buy the cheapest one, or save up 10k and use the discount for the most expensive one.
What is usually agreed upon to be the best one c:?

[Talamarie]

Use the discount on most expensive one so you can put the max number of chests inside and max up the amount of storage you can have in the city.

[RiotProof]

Well.
- The faction thing is constantly changing so don't worry about that.
- As far as house size, it used to be a bigger deal because of the larger storage capacity by placing more storage chests. That was before you could access any town storage from any other town so it's not so much a concern anymore.
- Taxes aren't really an issue anymore either so the once downside of BIG houses getting huge tax bills isn't a problem either.
- If you really like the house decorating aspect by all means do get a BIG house. If you just want the fast travel and trophy slots a small one will do.
- I find it helpful to have houses where in places that you frequent anyway. Your preferred crafting town, access to gypsum forge, bonus resources from faction control ( such as daily food cart in Reekwater )
- In the end it doesn't matter because with the almost free fast travel these days once you travel to house you can bounce to any other town at any time. So it comes down to which town and house in that town you like the most.

[forcecomdr]

What are the taxes nowadays? Back at launch i found them almost too much to bother with.

[Wampum Biskit]

Originally posted by forcecomdr:

What are the taxes nowadays? Back at launch i found them almost too much to bother with.

i think my biggest house is like 220gc a week , it's really nothing to worry about.

[kwendal]

Originally posted by RiotProof:

Well.
- The faction thing is constantly changing so don't worry about that.
- As far as house size, it used to be a bigger deal because of the larger storage capacity by placing more storage chests. That was before you could access any town storage from any other town so it's not so much a concern anymore.
- Taxes aren't really an issue anymore either so the once downside of BIG houses getting huge tax bills isn't a problem either.
- If you really like the house decorating aspect by all means do get a BIG house. If you just want the fast travel and trophy slots a small one will do.
- I find it helpful to have houses where in places that you frequent anyway. Your preferred crafting town, access to gypsum forge, bonus resources from faction control ( such as daily food cart in Reekwater )
- In the end it doesn't matter because with the almost free fast travel these days once you travel to house you can bounce to any other town at any time. So it comes down to which town and house in that town you like the most.

Great answer! I just want to add a few things. Get the Big one IMO, that will maximize your 50% discount. Controlling faction is not really an issue currently.

I think they will have more changes in the future as to how factions can control areas. In any case having the Large House at 50% discount seems the best move.

[Commend4Commed Report4Report]

If you want one now buy the cheapest and with 50% off it will be only 2.5k. Or save your gold and buy the 20k house for 10k.

This probably seems like a lot of gold but as you progress you will gain gold more easily.

Later on, especially if you want to make large amounts of gold you will need three of the largest houses.

The 20k Everfall house is IMO the best house in the game. It's location is directly across from the trading post in the heart of the town.

Being close to the trading post means you wouldn't need to walk encumbered very far to sell things on the TP.