Guild Wars 2

I rushed early to get up to 295%. Now I have hit max magic find from essence of luck. So how are we dealing with this to avoid regret when Anet get around to providing some other modes of use for these? Sell all blues and greens? Or continue salvaging and stockpile essences? Anyone come up with a decent method/process?

For me, putting all blues and greens on the tp or in the forge takes too much time, so i would keep on salvaging and refine/store the exotic essences.

I dont’ think it even take too much space. Just keep refining it to exotic.

Almost everyone got to 300 magic find by buying stock hold of items on the trading post to salvage anyway.

Unless you buy blue and green on the TP regularly to salvage for money it shouldnt’ affect you.

OK will do this. Originally I was thinking about selling blues and green. But quite frankly, in most cases I think I would be losing alot of gold in the long run not salvaging it since the majority of blues/greens sell too low for what they yield from salvaging. My biggest problem is my bank full of bloodstone dust and no karma leaving me with not much storage space :p

It would be nice to have another use for them for the people that don’t care about MF or have maxed it (other than maudry).

Well I do think it an issue. Anet’s practice of controlling the economy by inserting new currencies seems to have worked. Except it causes orphaned currencies that in most cases the players disregard.

Essences of Luck is not connected to a Living World event and I think Anet needs to step up and find a secondary use for them. AND please don’t make it a lame vendor that sells basic salvage kits.

Maybe add a vendor that buys 1 luck for 1c? (10c for fine luck, 50c for master, 1s for rare, 2s for exotic, 5s for legendary) it’s not much, certainly not game-breaking, but it’s at least an outlet for them. Zet’s collection would be worth 275g. but that’s an impressive collection; 2,750,000 luck would get you from from 0 to 247% mf, or from 206 to 300% mf.
this would increase the apparent value of blue items by about 11c, and greens by 30c. not much.
and PLEASE do not make it time-gated. never time-gate. time-gate bad. very bad. if you do time-gate, remove it after a few weeks, never leave it. bad.

What are you doing that karma is an issue? I can’t seem to get mine lower than 8mil before I get bored of clicking and next thing I know it’s back up to 9mil.

Just my opinion , but I think they need to sort ascended mats 1st before considering EoL’s.

I used to have 6 million karma. One complete collection of all T3 Cultural Weapons later, it’s down to 1.5 million.

Essence Snow.3194:

What are you doing that karma is an issue? I can’t seem to get mine lower than 8mil before I get bored of clicking and next thing I know it’s back up to 9mil.

Just my opinion , but I think they need to sort ascended mats 1st before considering EoL’s.

At one stage I was above 20 million karma. Shortly after the karma rework/nerf I probably did a stupid thing and started blowing my karma on karma armor to throw in the forge to convert to linen scrap etc. Then I made a few more legendaries etc and it started to add up.

I usually forge greens that aren’t light armour.

Zomaarwat.3912:

I usually forge greens that aren’t light armour.

This. All blue and green gear is either silk or rares. When you look at them like this, you realize that there is no “junk”.

mtpelion.4562:

Zomaarwat.3912:

I usually forge greens that aren’t light armour.

This. All blue and green gear is either silk or rares. When you look at them like this, you realize that there is no “junk”.

I salvage everything lately. With the price of silk, and other mats needed for Ascended gear, it’s all useful.

Sephas.8793:

mtpelion.4562:

Zomaarwat.3912:

I usually forge greens that aren’t light armour.

This. All blue and green gear is either silk or rares. When you look at them like this, you realize that there is no “junk”.

I salvage everything lately. With the price of silk, and other mats needed for Ascended gear, it’s all useful.

I’m sitting on several thousand Mithril Ingots and Elder Wood Planks right now, so I’m not salvaging anything that gives those ores or logs.

To answer the OP’s question, you should do whatever you did with blues and greens before luck essences were introduced with a few adjustments based on the market.

With the current prices of ectos all greens are worth throwing in the forge, except light armour which should be salvaged for silk. Personally I try and skew my results towards weapons because rare greatswords, swords, stave etc. have a higher value.

Salvage blue light armour and use the tp for everything else that can be sold straight away, vendor ink the rest.

I’d buy those essences of luck stacks off you. I only have like 98% luck. I wish I had 300.