Guild Wars 2

Silk and thick leather are kitten near worthless, it’s often better to just vendor them than sell on the TP. Are there any plans to make use of these items again?

There are uses for it… That they don’t net a lot of coins seems due to a surplus of them.

Don’t really see where you are going with this.

Remove them from bag drops → let the surplus burn off → see where prices stabilize → adjust from there → profit

Problem is 1) everyone is mindlessly selling them to the TP for a loss over what they could get at an NPC merchant and 2) it’s a common salvage from armor rares. Of course players who are cracking open rares looking for gooey globs of ectoplasm and runes don’t sweat the small stuff like a 1 or 2c loss.

Of course you could help by either not selling those at the TP or buy a bunch at 8c and then sell them for 7c. Sure it’s at a loss but even if you are willing to “lose” 1g that’s 10,000 less silk or thick leather on the market.

The problem is that most people are level 80. Salvaging just about anything gives X + silk or thick leather. Consequently there is a lot of it to go around.

When dust was cheap some of the silk would be transformed into Gossamer.