Guild Wars 2

Can we salvage these insignias from dung armors for armor crafting now? Didn’t see it in the patch notes…

Whoops! Made a thread about this as well. I checked the Ascended Weapon crafting patch notes and it wasn’t mentioned in there as well. I can’t remember where I read the info about weapons dropping inscriptions.

I salvaged them from the named rabid gear available on TP, so guessing any dungeon piece that is salvageable will have chance to drop the insignia

Answered here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Exotic-Armor-Salvaging/

(Yes)

Has anyone tried to get insignia’s from crafted armor?

Let’s say you salvage an exotic dire armor and receive an insignia. Then you use the insignia to craft an armor piece. Can you then salvage it again and retrieve a dire insignia from it?

“Exotic armor pieces with the stat combos Rabid, Dire, Magi’s, Soldier’s, Cavalier’s, and Shaman’s now have a chance to salvage their insignia.” – it was in the patch notes

you couldn’t get inscriptions from crafted weapons, so I’m guessing you can’t get insignias from crafted armors. that would lead to a loop that you could max your armor crafting for much less cost.

Mystic.5934:

“Exotic armor pieces with the stat combos Rabid, Dire, Magi’s, Soldier’s, Cavalier’s, and Shaman’s now have a chance to salvage their insignia.” – it was in the patch notes

you couldn’t get inscriptions from crafted weapons, so I’m guessing you can’t get insignias from crafted armors. that would lead to a loop that you could max your armor crafting for much less cost.

That’s what I also think. But they didn’t add that into the notes, so it’s somewhat a grey area. Rather not waste my salvage kits on it until someone can confirm it actually works.

You cannot get them from the crafted armor, unfortunately. Once you finish making your Soldier’s armors for leveling best bet is to just sell them.

I hope the insignia returns are the same as inscriptions. I’ll confirm that tonight, as well as everything else to do with this topic (I’ve been preparing for this for the last like 2 months)

I did about 50 gloves of various types and it was about the same as weapons from what I could tell (but that’s a very limited sample).

And what is the return rate?

I salvaged the 20 pieces of exotic armor I used to get to 500 using BL kit and I got no insignias. It’s far from being a good sample size though.

I salvaged 20 of the named Dire armors (e.g. Jatoro), and received 13 insignias. I used a black lion salvage kit.

Fade.7658:

I salvaged 20 of the named Dire armors (e.g. Jatoro), and received 13 insignias. I used a black lion salvage kit.

That’s not too bad….

LadyRhonwyn:
MSK gives 0.4235 insignia/inscription per exotic that can drop it.
BLSK gives 0.6121 insignia/inscription per exotic that can drop it.
I’ve tested this with 425 and 593 exotics, respectively, on both kits before todays patch, and confirmed that the numbers are close enough to those to be considered the same for insignia as inscriptions. (salvaged 502 exotic armors last night and got 0.4183 insignia per exotic with MSK)
I have yet to find a single non-crafted armor that should give an insignia that doesn’t (whereas not all exotic weapons gave inscriptions when they should of)

nyaonyao: crafted armors do not give insignia, regardless of their stats. same as weapons and inscriptions.
on the contrary, 20 would of been a very good sample size to determine if it were possible or not. If they could give insignia but didn’t after 20, the odds of that happening are 1 in 168,114,203

Fade: slightly higher than expected but not even a full insignia off. very average!

on a related note, I think they decreased the Dark Matter drop rate.
607 exotic armors salvaged and only around 270 Dark Matter obtained.
I never paid close attention to that, but it always seemed like it was closer to 1:1 before yesterday

The only reason I actually salvaged so many, was I needed 6 for my ascended armor, and at the time, Dire Insignias were going for 7 gold. I was able to get those Jatoro armor pieces for 3.5 gold each, so made a little profit. I had the spare BL kits sitting anyways.

On that related note: I salvaged 79 exotic armors with BLSK, got 75 dark matter. (And 49 insignias, which is right in line with your .6121.)

Also got 139 ecto, which is more than I was expecting, though maybe I’m confused about that rate.

Problem is, the insignia I want is only available in dungeon armour… (soldier) (and karma, but you can’t salvage that). I might as well get the karma armour and transmute it…
(oh and a helmet from a dungeon as that’s not available as karma armour)

You can farm the gold and buy the insignias str8 off the tp… or there should be a few crafted ones other people have made that you can buy for less if you just want exotic.

I can’t find any soldier stuff on the TP, only the weapons.

Soldier insignias have been up on the tp since the patch. Search soldier insignia?

So… is it dropping the insignias themselves, or the recipe to make them?

From yesterdays patch notes:

•Exotic armor pieces with the stat combos Rabid, Dire, Magi’s, Soldier’s, Cavalier’s, and Shaman’s now have a chance to salvage their insignia.