Guild Wars 2

Hi! I noticed that some Blue – Green items worth for 3-4 silvers. Is it better to sell them on TP to have fast profit or try to salvage them and obtain materials and sell them later? Especially even for items that worth for 1 or 2 silver on TP. Thank you for replies.

My preference (since magic find is not anywhere close to being maxed) is to salvage them for the luck that I get. If you’re going for short-term profit, you’re probably better off selling them (I have heard of people vendoring them rather than selling on TP, but haven’t checked the numbers on most items for that myself).

I’m going for the long-term gain from better loot chance, so that’s why I salvage.

Sell all light armor on the TP at the very least.

I usually just salvage it. It just take too much time(effort), you are better of not wasting time doing it. There are faster way to make money, instead of worrying about selling blue/green.

Unless the blue/green just happened to be popular(for example lvl35 green armor), you are better of just salvaging it.

Their are faster ways to make money but if you have the time sell blues/greens. 1hands, shields, and focus tend to sell for 50-100% more than vendor value. Light armor is highly priced because of cloth only coming from salvage/loot bags. I salvage any light armor because of that.

Then, salvage light armor and sell the other things is the “right” way to make money?

I only sell rares and exotics of 50 silver value or higher.
I salvage everything else for the chance at magic find, dark matter, and ectos. :]

Fade to Shadow.4579:

Then, salvage light armor and sell the other things is the “right” way to make money?

There is no ‘right or wrong’ way to make money, it’s all on personal preference. Maybe you’ve found a better, faster way to make money.

For me, every week or so, I go through my tier 6 materials, and my common materials and sell all my jute, all my wood, and all my tier 6 fines except for my crystalline dust, nets me about 3 or 4 gold on a slow week. :]
Never thought I’d see the day when 100 jute scraps sold for 1 gold… xD

AngelDiscarnate.5489:

Never thought I’d see the day when 100 jute scraps sold for 1 gold… xD

Or, you could wait until you have 250, upgrade it to wool, and most times make more than you would for selling the jute.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Sell-Salvage-or-Forge/first#post4295041

This has a few other people’s thoughts too

Depends on what you want (or are satisfied with) in terms of your Magic Find.

If you are doing everything you can to boost MF (I’d say every player should be doing this until MF is +100 or so), salvage it.

If you are in pursuit of pure gold, then sell them. However, NEVER sell to the lowest Buy order and be careful matching the highest sell order. Never sell any item without looking at the Buy order list first. Looking at the recent average buy orders on a 3rd party site is not a bad idea if the BUY / SELL order spread is large, is not a bad idea.

Going thru all of them for pricing on the TP (or GW2spidy) can pay off in the long run (sell those that are worth X silver, for example), but is a bit tedious and time consuming.

Ayrilana.1396:

Sell all light armor on the TP at the very least.

Not smart. Just SALVAGE all light armor. Much better. The silk can be sold for equal money as the single armor sales BUT you keep a lot of luck to yourself. average is 2 silk per armor, so 2×2 silver = 4. I salvaged a lot so i’m pretty sure. tp is about 4 silver to, a bit more perhaps, but if you recon tp fees, it’s not that good.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Ayrilana.1396:

Sell all light armor on the TP at the very least.

Not smart. Just SALVAGE all light armor. Much better. The silk can be sold for equal money as the single armor sales BUT you keep a lot of luck to yourself. average is 2 silk per armor, so 2×2 silver = 4. I salvaged a lot so i’m pretty sure. tp is about 4 silver to, a bit more perhaps, but if you recon tp fees, it’s not that good.

Not really.

3,6 silver for most piece 6silver for coat. and that’s list price, buy price is lower. I don’t see your point. I salvaged ovre 6k silk pieces. 2 is the average. that’s 4 silver. Wich means you must sell at 4,6 silver to break even. That is if you need silk for yourself also (bolt of damask is needed in lot of stuff). And i quite need it. Wich means the own value is the same. I’m not selling the silk so i’m not loosing another tp fee on it. Selling to tp is only usefull if you are heavy armor or skipping totally any backpiece/ascended armor.

And congratz for the most usefull post ever (/sarcasm).

The rate is little under 2 from all of the data that I had previously read and you’re discounting the salvage kit costs per use in your post. Most of the light armor pieces are priced around the break even point of getting the silk and selling.

The OP made no reference as to whether they cared about MF. They were speaking from pricing standpoint so I provided what I do. That post was my opinion and not stated to be a fact. I tend to not care about MF nor to deal with the hassle of carrying enough salvage kits. Perhaps I could have been a little clearer in that initial post.

Salvage-o-matic ftw. I sure wouldnt do it, with normal kits tbh. To much hassle. But after a dungeon run, wathever, there’s plenty light armors, wich i know by icon know, so i instantly salvage all of them. 3 copper per salvage is barley something to worry about (3,52 with basic kit). 6 copper. But yeah. Purely money wise, selling is better. But since i want both, the loss on money is so small, the magic find is totally worth it.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Salvage-o-matic ftw. I sure wouldnt do it, with normal kits tbh. To much hassle. But after a dungeon run, wathever, there’s plenty light armors, wich i know by icon know, so i instantly salvage all of them. 3 copper per salvage is barley something to worry about (3,52 with basic kit). 6 copper. But yeah. Purely money wise, selling is better. But since i want both, the loss on money is so small, the magic find is totally worth it.

Don’t forget the cost of that kit off the TP or the gold you could have gotten with the gems if you had bought with cash. I don’t really pay attention to the per salvage costs to know if there is even a break even point with the salvage o matic.

I know they’re planning to release one that’s at the level of the mystic kit but uses silver. I’m sure you can figure out the savings that kit would bring.

But yeah. If you want luck and don’t mind the hassle of kits, then it’d be in your interest to salvage.

Sell everything that’s not profitable to salvage or at least break even. If you want to try to max out your MF there are things you can order to specifically salvage for MF + small profit. That’s how I maxed mine out and made a large profit.

I salvaged mostly cloth in between when ascended weapons and ascended armor and held onto the cloth. Some other things were profitable to salvage as well since wood/metal prices were also up at the time, but the large bulk of the profit came from that. Ascended JC-ing should come out eventually.

You might want to look into salvaging things that yield gold/platinum for longer term investments/chance at much higher profits.

This is old, but the general idea and information is still valid. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/How-to-profit-while-gaining-MF/first

Aberrant.6749:

Sell everything that’s not profitable to salvage or at least break even.

The thing to me is always if you care about money that much. Take a mining pick and farm rich iron or platinum node(especailly if you have watchwork mining pick), or try one of the fast farming methods.

I just think manual checking every single item to decide if it is better to salvage or sell just take too much time, you are better of just salvage everything and spend time doing other methods of farming.

laokoko.7403:

Aberrant.6749:

Sell everything that’s not profitable to salvage or at least break even.

The thing to me is always if you care about money that much. Take a mining pick and farm rich iron or platinum node(especailly if you have watchwork mining pick), or try one of the fast farming methods.

I just think manual checking every single item to decide if it is better to salvage or sell just take too much time, you are better of just salvage everything and spend time doing other methods of farming.

When I was maxing my mf I quickly got a sense of what to keep and what to sell. At most it would be checking the tp once every few days to see if the mat prices changed. It wasn’t like I was checking every single item every single time. Most of the “work” was finding out aprox how many mats came out of what on average (which is in the link to the other post).

Even the most basic knowledge of not salvaging t5/6 leather or t5/6 wood (due to the foxfire) will go a long way if you’re trying to up your MF.

The profits I came out of doing this at the right time and doing it well were far more than farming a few rich nodes…

It’s more efficient to know what you’re getting and put in orders for things specifically to salvage for a profit + MF in addition to that. The buy orders do the work while you’re off doing other things and you can get far more items to salvage that way Vs. whatever you can farm yourself. If you’re going to be going for MF, you’re going to be salvaging a lot of things. So yes the OP should sell the greens that are worth substantially more than their salvage worth.

This is most likely what I will end up doing when the time comes for me to craft my Ascended armor. Even with my hoarding and my karma stockpile, I do not have enough to craft sets for my 5 characters. Buying up armor to salvage will get me the mats plus more Luck; may as well get as much benefit out of the cloth acquisition process while I’m at it.

While Bolts of Damask are used for ALL Ascended armor that is the ONLY place in the game it is uses.

For those of us that have no plans to craft Ascended Armor, it’s been a nice little income generator, however.

It’s also used for the dwayna backpiece.