Guild Wars 2

I was wondering if there might be a way to put not only the vendor sell price but the current price an item is going for on the trading post on items. I think this would help players a lot in determining whether to vendor an item, salvage it, or try to sell it on the trading post without having to look up each individual item on the Trading Post first to see what it is currently selling for.

Press O. Open the sell items section. There you have the TP prices of all the items in your inventory in a nice list. Hover over them to see the vendor price.

Theoretically if an item is worth salvaging, then there will be someone buying it to salvage for nearly as much as you’d get from salvaging (they have to make a profit). In practice:
– Souldbound items can’t be sold.
– Some people are buying items to salvage them, even when they are making a loss compared to just buying the end result. So for some items you would get more TPing them than salvaging because of other players being stupid.
– There are other uses for items that get people buying them. Same effect as the previous point, but this time it’s done by players who understand how things work. Maybe you know what they are doing with the item, maybe not. Either way, I don’t see why you would care.

So, what I do is:
– Salvage items get salvaged.
– Soulbound items with valuable runes get salvaged.
– If it can be sold on the TP for more than vendor (after listing fee and sales tax) then it gets sold there.
Everything else gets vendored.