Guild Wars 2

Can we get this bug taken care of sometime. It must be a bug since you can salvage dungeon token armors.

lets get on it please.

It’s not a bug, but an intended mechanic.

a year ago, karma was far easier to come by. People would routinely have 9 million and nothing to use it on. A while ago they nerfed it to like 1/20 as much income. Basically, right now it wouldn’t be a problem to allow karma items to be salvaged. But back then, that would be a whole LOT of ectos. Anet tends to not change things unless they need to be changed. There isn’t a huge need to let karma items be salvageable, so they don’t change it. I agree they should be, and the devs would probably agree as well, but it’s the changing it from non-salvageable that is the problem – it creates unbalance in the market and such.
as for badges, you could probably make similar arguments, but they wouldn’t be as definitive. for those, I believe it was initially just an oversight. Or they just said “well, we’re not sure, so let’s just make them non-salvageable until we know”.

If Anet is that concerned about economic impact, the easy solution is to just make karma gear salvage into karma jugs, wvw gear into badges of honor, etc instead of potential ectos/dark matter. That way we could at the very least be able to recover runes/sigils.

roamzero.9486:

If Anet is that concerned about economic impact, the easy solution is to just make karma gear salvage into karma jugs, wvw gear into badges of honor, etc instead of potential ectos/dark matter. That way we could at the very least be able to recover runes/sigils.

I doubt it’s an “easy” solution in terms of programming, but it’s intriguing. You craft gear with mats worth several gold and you only get a modest amount of them back when salvaging, but you can recover the upgrades. So why not apply the same logic to gear obtained in other ways?

I like it.

Making them salvageable might introduce a lot more Ectos into the economy (although I don’t think this is a huge issue. There’s plenty of Ecto+Dust sinks via Ascended crafting and MF boosting), but if that’s a step too far, they could at least make them Forgeable. Tossing 4 into the Forge is a horrendous return on investment, but it at least lets us get something final out of our old gear that we can’t use anymore.

EDIT: This should apply to Order gear as well.

Unrestricted gear is the way to go.

Zaxares.5419:

Making them salvageable might introduce a lot more Ectos into the economy (although I don’t think this is a huge issue. There’s plenty of Ecto+Dust sinks via Ascended crafting and MF boosting), but if that’s a step too far, they could at least make them Forgeable. Tossing 4 into the Forge is a horrendous return on investment, but it at least lets us get something final out of our old gear that we can’t use anymore.

EDIT: This should apply to Order gear as well.

Items bought with karma can in fact be Toileted. I’ve never tried throwing wubwub or order stuff in there though.

Yeah, Order gear or gear purchased with badges can’t be thrown into the Forge. I know normal karma gear can, but these are the notable exceptions.

Which doesn’t make much sense, since this stuff is WAY more expensive than just buying cheap Rares off the TP and throwing them in. No sane player would waste his money buying Order/WvW gear to mystic forge.