Guild Wars 2

Oh boy, so when I was waiting for my group in the fractal frozen I wanted to salvage the rare I picked up. I forgot that I switched out my Sunrise for the staff earlier and wasn’t paying attention … so puff. Sunrise salvaged … for one Mithril Ore.

I submit a ticket so hopefully Anet can restore it. But just throwing it out there, don’t be the other guy like me. Don’t even touch your salvage kit when your legendary is in your bag T_T

Good advice, but most likely didn’t happen.

Oh and if you did actually salvage it, you won’t get it back through a ticket. Sorry.

That has to hurt… Was there the usual ‘are you sure you want to salvage this’ popup or not? If there wasn’t, it seriously needs to be added to help avoid this…

I sincerely hope support can do something, although their general responses fall along the lines of “we can’t restore lost items”. Hopefully you get lucky and something can be done :/

Well, I did Salvaged it, and it took me 3 months to craft it … so thanks for the support Wesley :P

And ExTribble to be perfectly honest I can’t remember if there was a pop up warning or not since I wasn’t paying much attention (I mean I wasn’t paying attention enough to realize I was salvaging my legendary). But I think I’m about 90% sure there wasn’t a pop up warning, not even the one when you salvage an exotic or rare. I pretty much realize the deed 1 millisecond after I did it.

And well, I just hope for the best. I think lately Anet have upgraded their support so they can track people account/item (I know a few people with hacked account got their stuff back). I think the game can track what legendary you have equiped on the account before since there are achievement for the 15 legendary (or so I heard) and I doubt anyone sane would be vendoring their legendary. So here finger crossing.

wow this is crazy! i really hope you get it back.

Abriel.4103:

Well, I did Salvaged it, and it took me 3 months to craft it … so thanks for the support Wesley :P

And ExTribble to be perfectly honest I can’t remember if there was a pop up warning or not since I wasn’t paying much attention (I mean I wasn’t paying attention enough to realize I was salvaging my legendary). But I think I’m about 90% sure there wasn’t a pop up warning, not even the one when you salvage an exotic or rare. I pretty much realize the deed 1 millisecond after I did it.

And well, I just hope for the best. I think lately Anet have upgraded their support so they can track people account/item (I know a few people with hacked account got their stuff back). I think the game can track what legendary you have equiped on the account before since there are achievement for the 15 legendary (or so I heard) and I doubt anyone sane would be vendoring their legendary. So here finger crossing.

They can rollback accounts but they will only do it for compromised accounts but not for mistakes like that. Vendoring would actually be less of an issue since there is a buyback option.

Thats a shame. The price of mithril has gone down recently too.

When i tried to destroy some Obi Shards (Legendary Quality) I had to type the whole name of the item. If that didnt happen when salvaging your sunrise you should send a ticket.

they should probably remove the option to salvage a legendary item… I’m pretty sure no one wants to salvage their legendary items, ever.

That weapon is 1800 gold right, and worth over 1000 dollars? They should do something about that.

Aralon.7501:

When i tried to destroy some Obi Shards (Legendary Quality) I had to type the whole name of the item. If that didnt happen when salvaging your sunrise you should send a ticket.

Same thing for legendary quality PvP items, but then again this vid shows a confirmation(without having to type the name of the legendary item):

It would be better if they just required you to type the name of the item for confirmation though.

This is why I use a safe equipment box at the bottom slots so I dont in a mistake salvage or sell to vender.

I love my sunrise and know how much time and effort it takes to create a legendary.

I hope you get it back.

Good luck mate.

Should’ve made at least a youtube vid.
Can anyone say 3m views?

BOSSMAN.2647:

This is why I use a safe equipment box at the bottom slots so I dont in a mistake salvage or sell to vender.
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How does that prevent you from salvaging it though? The only thing a safe bag does is keep it from showing up in the vendor list.

Aralon.7501:

When i tried to destroy some Obi Shards (Legendary Quality) I had to type the whole name of the item. If that didnt happen when salvaging your sunrise you should send a ticket.

AjoraOaks.3659:

they should probably remove the option to salvage a legendary item… I’m pretty sure no one wants to salvage their legendary items, ever.

Two solid suggestions.

And, OP, I hope they make an exception and give it back to you. Clearly that was not intentional.

AFAIK you don’t have to type the name in when salvaging Legendary Items – Vid on youtube of a guy salvaging his ‘Flameseeker Prophecies’ and also ‘Frostfang’.

Some Frenchie dude who said he had to leave the game for personal reasons – he got a prompt, but didnt have to type the name in.

Also, another Vid on youtube of a guy salvaging Twilight – Same again, he got a prompt – but nothing more.

You get a prompt with the name of the item described in its color of rarity. Unless you are in the habit of salvaging anything above yellows (i.e., routinely), this just doesn’t make sense, I’m afraid.

trust me kiwi, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me myself either. And yeah I hope they can do something, not everyday you see someone salvage a legendary … right?

Abriel.4103:

trust me kiwi, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me myself either. And yeah I hope they can do something, not everyday you see someone salvage a legendary … right?

Sorry for your loss…
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For me it’s just begging for attention…
“Oh guys i just chopped my hand off, maybe they will grow a new one for me.”

sostronk.8167:

Thats a shame. The price of mithril has gone down recently too.

This made me laugh

Should have told them your account was hacked.

The reality is that you did it… For science!!

Abriel.4103:

Well, I did Salvaged it, and it took me 3 months to craft it

to be perfectly honest I can’t remember if there was a pop up warning or not since I wasn’t paying much attention

This is exactly why they should not fix this. It’s time for people to pay attention to what they are doing and stop trying to have others fix problems for them.

This goes for society as a whole, not just in games.

im pretty sure they will give you it back, but it will cost you 1 mithril ore

With the very unique, colorful and flashy icon for Legendary Weapons, you thought it was the rare weapon and clicked it for salvaging?!?!

Luchifer.8026:

im pretty sure they will give you it back, but it will cost you 1 mithril ore

This post made my day ^^

And I hope you get your sunrise back :/

I do think this games needs some features for item protection.

1. You should be able to lock items and characters with a permanent or semi permanent lock and to override it requires 24-48 hours.

2. You should be able to lock individual items – at least exotic, legendary and ascended level items so that they cannot be lost this way. Even putting a 5-60 minute delay on this would prevent accidents and UI errors as well as make ravaging hacked accounts more of a pain.

If nothing else, you should (as an option) be required to enter a captcha or even a secondary security phrase when performing an action to destroy the highest level item or items you have locked down.

I have 2 Exotic equipment bags from FotM because I carry a lot of gear and still, when my bags get full and I start swapping items, my Juggernaut can start floating around in my general inventory.

It makes me nervous that I’m often 2 errant clicks away from losing it.

Anet, why not create an Asuran Recycling Center and a new law in Tyria:

To stem the tide of mystic pollution, you can no longer salvage legendary and ascended items or exotic items containing a (potentially toxic) Eldritch Scroll. These items must be taken to an Asuran Recycling Center where forms must be filled out and after a 24 hour long “mystical dissipation ritual”, the items will then be salvaged and the resultant material returned to the original owner.

Too much work but still…

Should just make legendaries undestroyable, unsellable etc.

There’s never going to be a situation where you want to get rid of them.

Is anyone ever going to say “Boy I wish I could free up bank space by getting rid of all these legendaries!” or “Don’t care for this incinerator but it sure would be nice to get that sigil of bloodlust back”

If you’re in the unique situation of wanting to outright delete a character that has a legendary (they’re soulbound after all), well deleting them would take the legendary with it. Even then it’d be silly to get rid of it, as they might be made account bound in the future.

Some things should just not be salvageable. There are other items in game that can not be salvaged or sold so perhaps something so rare and valuable shouldn’t be also.

Hahahaha Pics or it didnt happen