Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone. I’m sure I’m not the only one out there who’s disappointed that you can’t salvage any ascended items right now. Even though it’s only trinkets, it does take a good bit of time (10+ days) to earn rings or amulets through pristine relics or laurels, so time-wise they are quite valuable. Anet allows us to earn these as potential drops as well, but they are still pretty rare. And unfortunately, you rarely get the stats you WANT.

So here’s how I’d propose to make ascended trinkets salvagable, so you don’t fill the bank with useless ones or let them go to waste entirely. We already know that you can get mists essences by playing at different levels. So to follow with the idea of keeping any ascended-related items account bound, and therefore must still be earned and are impervious to trade fluctuations, how about we allow trinkets to be salvaged for mists essences?

This would let us get SOMETHING out of the unwanted stat rings we keep getting, going towards infusing other ones we do like. They could require you to use either a mystic, master, or even black lion salvage kit to retain anything, which they might find enticing since people might end up buying gems in the long run. And to balance it, you could use about the same setup that rares > ectos has right now:

Lets say for non-infused rings, you could get between 1-3 viles of condensed mists essence, while infused ones would grant 1-3 globs of coagulated mists essence. This way, if you get lucky and get 3, it has the same value as 1 of the higher rarity (3 globs = 1 shard). In addition to the mists essences, they could also salvage for some regular fractal relics as well, or even add a very rare chance to get a pristine relic instead.

I feel this is a reasonable way to make use of items we’re already getting but not using, while keeping it balanced and not boosting the reward dramatically. It still might take you ten days to salvage enough to infuse an item, but right now it’s pure luck if any mists essence drop, and I happen to be really unlucky in general.

What do you guys think? Do you have a better way you’d do something like this?