Guild Wars 2

With the introduction of Ascended Weapons the game allows us to salvage certain weapon types (such as soldier) to gain inscriptions. This was a great way for me to level my weaponsmithing to 500.

Anyone have any insight whether I should save my dungeon tokens and exotic armor drops so I can do the same salvaging process to get insignia’s in the future?

Also will I be able to use my exotic armor sets such as Khilbron’s Armor and Armageddon’s Armor or are they considered named exotics (as you can’t salvage named weapon for inscriptions)?

I dont see a reason why they wouldnt implement this for armor as well, so save your tokens.

Are you sure, you cant salvage named exotics for inscriptions?
As far as i know, only crafted exotics dont drop inscriptions when salvaged.

I believe they will also introduce the same system for armor as they did for weapons. But as there has been no official release it is just speculation.

And you can salvage some “Named Exotics” as well, but it will only work for some designations. Berserker Gear does not drop Inscriptions, regardless if it is “Named” as it is considered Craftable.

Armageddon armor is bought with karma so that won’t be salvageable.
The last inscription I salvaged was a Shaman’s inscription from Droknar’s Hammer. Unless you have a very narrow definition of “named exotic” then that is not true either.

Like I said above. Only some Designations (Stat Categories) work. And you still only have about a 25% chance to get the Inscription if you are using Master Kits, 50% chance if you are using a Black Lion Kit. As the Inscriptions are classified as “Rare Materials” and are not considered “Upgrades”.

Khisanth.2948:

Armageddon armor is bought with karma so that won’t be salvageable.
The last inscription I salvaged was a Shaman’s inscription from Droknar’s Hammer. Unless you have a very narrow definition of “named exotic” then that is not true either.

The thing is though, I got the Armageddon armor from Fractal chests. I just tested it and it does allow me to salvage it.

I didn’t know named weapons could be salvaged as well. It seems I was misinformed about that.

Thank you all for the information. I currently have around 30 armor pieces and about 15,000 dungeon tokens ready for salvage. This will definitely help me getting my armorsmithing to 500 when ascended armor is introduced.

only some exotic weapon stat combos can give you inscriptions.
and of the stat combos that can give inscriptions, not all named exotics will.
for example: Final Curse and The Ugly Stick both have Rabid stats (cond, prec, tough). But Final Curse can give an inscription, while I’ve salvaged 10 Ugly Sticks with no inscriptions. (I’ve calculated the odds of getting 0 inscriptions from 10 exotics to be 1 in 12284)

anyways, I fully expect some exotic armor stat types to be able to drop insignia, which is why I bought 300 armors over the last couple days It’s possible some that should, won’t, but I doubt that as there are only like 20 different named sets (compared to 200+ named weapons).