Guild Wars 2

I just begun playing yesterday. I am around level 4.

I bought gathering materials as soon as possible, because I read it was a good thing to do on this forum.

But what should I do with equipment I dont use/can use?
Should I sell it for money, or is it better to disasemble them?
I am not really planning to start crafting soon after all I read on the forums here.

Can anyone give me a good advice about it?
Sorry if this has been asked before

you cannot sell partially used gathering equipment, they are also soulbound.
so use them, and when you move into a level where they are less functional, either destroy them or put them in your bank and pull them out when you need to go back and farm the lower level mats.

I’d recommend salvaging the “salvage materials” that aren’t metal looking (sell those on TP or whatnot. I’d also recommend salvaging the light or medium (white) gear you pick up (for cloth and leather later on).

Other than that, just sell it, so blues you don’t need and things, get the copper you’d get out of it and rock on. Weapons the same, just sell them for the money if you don’t need them.

Just my thoughts.

A word of advice: keep an extra of each gathering item on you, including those from one level/tier down (I always have a copper/iron set on me, and an extra set of what I’m gathering the most – at this rate iron, but that’s about to change). That’ll be easier to do once you craft 8slot bags (and higher, later on). And if you’re in a higher level area and find the lower tier node, switch really quick to save a bit of coin. You’ve probably read about “Deposit all collectables”, and never forget to use that to your advantage. Also, I recommend always keeping salvage kits on hand – I personally just use crude for salvage junk and basic for all the armor/weapons/etc.

As far as what to sell – at your level you’ll want to gain gold, too. Don’t sell any crafting materials, since you’ll probably use them later. Now as far as actual items go, it depends on your level. Up until very recently I’d only sell items if I could put them on the TP for around 50copper or more – for you, you might want to start at about 30 copper items until you have a bit more flexibility with money. Once you’ve got ~20-30 silver you can raise that, and keep raising it as you gather more. I’m lingering at ~2g and change right now, and I only sell if it’s worth ~2silver+. Anything not in that value range, salvage. I salvaged pretty much everything I couldn’t use very early on since before I started the game I read an excellent crafting guide, and it helped once I started crafting – which I did as soon as I found the crafting stations, which was ~ level 5-6.

However, I would not hold off to start crafting. You should start right away to take advantage of the levels you can gain. Start with just refining everything (it’s not advised to take on an armor and a weapon craft at once since they use the same FCMs, but that’s what I do and I just manage what I’m using – something like cook or jeweler, which uses entirely different stuff, is usually more recommended). You’ll gain easy EXP, and if you’ve been reading the forums then you should known how to do discoveries best. Those couple of extra levels for your character from crafting will definitely help make the early game a bit easier (especially if you like to do what I do: stupidly run into higher level areas just to map waypoints for nodes and easier travel later lol).

Good luck! Also, later on it’ll be good to be familiar with which nodes require which types of tools. You can type /wiki in the game to look that stuff up – that way you’re never wasting more expensive tools on lesser nodes.

My friends and I do the following: Salvage all whites; sell unwanted blues and greens.

The reason for this is that, unless you have another income stream (such as selling crafting mats), you will need the money at 20/40/60 to buy your trait books.

Salvaging blues and greens does not actually net you much in the way of mats. For example, one piece of cloth/leather/wood/metal. Even you don’t plan to craft and don’t need the mats, what you get by vendoring the gear is more than the meager amount of mats you get from salvaging it.

If you’re going to take up tailoring or leather working, you might want to modify this behavior given that cloth and leather scrap drops are pathetic. e.g. salvage the light or medium armor pieces.