Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to figure out what I’m missing here. The inscriptions sell on the BLTP for ~7g. However, weapons that actually have these in them are only selling for ~2g. Why would a component sell for significantly more than the final product?

Gaviston Hawkington.9647:

I’m trying to figure out what I’m missing here. The inscriptions sell on the BLTP for ~7g. However, weapons that actually have these in them are only selling for ~2g. Why would a component sell for significantly more than the final product?

Because the inscriptions can be used to level crafting while the weapons do not necessarily have suitable stats.

Components selling for more than the final product has been a norm for the GW2 economy for a long time.

Recipes that sell for significantly more than their component parts are the exception, rather than the rule.

Due to everybody crafting exotic weapons to level their weaponcrafting, there is an oversupply of weapons right now.

which is why its smart to craft exotics whose inscriptions can be salvaged back out after crafting (IE: magi, rabid, dire, settler, sentinel, ect)

once you’re done crafting you can salvage inscriptions and resell them to recoup losses.

Warning: not all crafted exotics with those stats can drop their inscriptions.
near as I can tell, items crafted with ‘Pearl’ and ‘Quaggan’ in their name do not give inscriptions. If you’re obtained an inscription from these items, let me know and I’ll double-check it, but I’ve definitely salvaged 10 of each of those before and got 0 inscriptions.

Suserihime.1506:

which is why its smart to craft exotics whose inscriptions can be salvaged back out after crafting (IE: magi, rabid, dire, settler, sentinel, ect)

once you’re done crafting you can salvage inscriptions and resell them to recoup losses.

First of all, Sentinel Inscriptions arent salvageable at all and the others that you mentioned are only salvageable from non-crafted weapons with those stats.

Only advantage to salvaging crafted exotics is the Dark Matter potential.