Guild Wars 2

Hello all, lately I’m searching all over the internet trying to find a salvage guide of what and why to salvage. I’m looking for something like a list of salvage results and what would be the benefits of using better quality of salvage kits. Anyway I would appreciate if someone has found a really nice guide or at least if you guys have an opinion of what items to salvage and when to sell them straight to the vendor. Cheers!

The best way is to just set personal limits to what YOU find ok to salvage.

Always salvage whites. It is a good way to get resources and at 80 you have chance of ori, ancient logs and gossamer.

Set yourself a value limit on blue and green itemsfor salvaging and selling. I see everything worth more than 75 copper. Rest I salvage.

I salvage all rares and exotics with Mystic Salvage Kit IF the BLT price isnt higher than the worth of two ectoplasms

This nets me a good amount of money while levelling and especially in Orr farming etc. Again, you should have your own set of “rules” around salvaging like I have mine

Rookni.2469:

The best way is to just set personal limits to what YOU find ok to salvage.

Always salvage whites. It is a good way to get resources and at 80 you have chance of ori, ancient logs and gossamer.

Set yourself a value limit on blue and green itemsfor salvaging and selling. I see everything worth more than 75 copper. Rest I salvage.

I salvage all rares and exotics with Mystic Salvage Kit IF the BLT price isnt higher than the worth of two ectoplasms

This nets me a good amount of money while levelling and especially in Orr farming etc. Again, you should have your own set of “rules” around salvaging like I have mine

Thank you for your answer. I think I’ll start using your system but I also will start making a spreadsheet with the results because I like to “gamble” (salvaging is gambling anyway) more safely.

When I first started playing I salvaged everything but now, when I got a fair amount of mats in the bank, I only salvage things that will give me cloth and leather. Metal and wood is easy to come by so heavy armor and weapons I tend to vendor for that extra cash. But – of course – I always check what I would get on TP before vendoring it.

My list of salvage results this week: 9 exotics – 1 gave 3 globs the rest gave nothing… Got to love RNG systems!

The basic is sell to npc merchant all white, blue and green items. salvage yellow and orange with master salvage kit. However, not all yellow and orange is worth salvaging especially if their worth a lot.

Salvage all whites of heavy/light armor or weapons of any type. You can sell medium armored whites for more than what you could salvage for on average.

Blues and greens, just vendor

Yellows depend on you. Keep in mind ecto’s have a separate roll compared to rare crafting materials and are therefore unaffected by master salvage kit for increased ecto chance. Masters would just help you recover the upgrade more reliably as well as higher chance at ori/gossamer/ancient. I’d use master on rare armor, and basic on rare weapon since most major runes are at least 4.5-6 silver whereas most major sigils are 1.5 silver tops. Otherwise you just sell it on TP if you don’t want to take the risk. On average though, you will get 1 ecto per salvage, from my experiences.

For exotic, completely depends on its worth on TP. Vast majority of times its better to sell on TP than salvage.