Guild Wars 2

This has been getting on my nerves for a while. And I just ran into a ridiculous chain of circumstances that really highlights how annoying this is.

After BUYING xstones (from the gem store) to get good stats and look for my mesmer armor, I then decide it’s time to get some good runes as well. I decided on Rune of Lyssa.

They are ~3 gold on the TP. I’m not super rich, but I did have a lot of karma jugs lying around, so I opted to buy the karma armor that comes with lyssa runes instead. I then BUY (from the gem store) a black lion salvage kit (100% guarantee to salvage upgrade components) and head to the vendor. Since I’m going to salvage the runes to put on my existing armor, I just buy 6 of the same piece of equipment.

Then, to my dismay, I cannot kittening salvage the armor! Why? I have no clue, you’re just not allowed to! And since I bought 6 of the same piece of gear, I have to buy another 5 pieces just to be able to transmute the runes onto my armor. So I spend more karma, then I have to go BUY (from the gem store) more xstones to transmute them. Now I have spent a crap ton of karma and gems just to do this, and in the end I’m left with 5 karma gear that are utterly useless. They can’t be sold, traded, salvaged or even merched, I have to just destroy them.

This is ridiculous. I don’t mind spending money to support anet, but this is just enraging. I could be wrong, but it comes across as if they want to make it hard to have fun and force us to spend more money to do anything.

All armor and weapons should be salvageable.

if that was the case ppl would get karma armour and salvage it for ectos/mats
or buy the cheap cultural armour and do the same.
Same applys to the rare weapons and offhands.
but i do agree if you put on a rune/sigil,then using the kit only gives the rune/sigil back.

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if that was the case ppl would get karma armour and salvage it for ectos.
or buy the cheap cultural armour and do the same.
Same applys to the rare weapons and offhands.
but i do agree if you put on a rune/sigil,then using the kit only gives the rune/sigil back.

Who cares if people do that? It’s not a threat to the economy. First off, cultural armor is lvl 35 and 60 and won’t give ecto, so ppl would have to buy t3 for 20 gold for maybe 3 ecto.

Karma armor is still expensive, ppl would spend 42K karma for 6 ecto max.

People ALREADY do this with dungeons, they run dungeons, buy rare armor, salvage into ecto.

Since the rune from a karma purchase can be moved through the process of transmuting already, I’m not sure I see the harm in allowing a salvage kit to remove the rune (and only the rune), but making the rune soulbound to the player so it can’t be sold.

And not just karma armor, but all armor and weapons. I decided to scrap my accessories and get new ones.

I was allowed to salvage all of my accessories EXCEPT my spineguard back item. WTF, it’s only a rare item when the accessories were exotic. It just doesn’t make sense.

I learnt this issue on day 1 with karma gear (my luck), I feel bad it took so long for you to run into it.

Best i can tell, anything with a light blue flavor text attached can’t be salvaged what so ever.

We should at least be able to put 3 pieces into the mystic toilet along a 4th something that will result in some other piece of bind-on-use gear. As it is, if you mystic toilet 4 pieces of karma gear, you get another piece of gear with the same freaking restrictions.

Transmutate the rune into the gear you want.