Guild Wars 2

This may not be the right forum fir this question in which case I apologize.
Yet one aspect of it refers to crafting.

I would like some views on what to do with blue&green items that I cannot use as an ele.
I see either
- salvage for crafting mats
- sell on the TP
- keep and mix in the mystic forge with the hope to get something useful

I know there is no right answer, but would just be interested what the difference views here are.

Blues are usually worth about as much to vendor them or salvage them. Pick whichever.
Greens should generally be sold, after checking to see if it’s one of the random ones that’s actually worth something on the TP.
Chucking things into the MF is VERY unlikely to get anything useful or valuable unless it’s a Rare or a rune/sigil.

I do the following:

1. Do a quick check on the TP to see whether there is a demand for them. Sometimes green or even blue items are being bought up for two or three times their vendor price. I expect these are usually people who are buying up the items to throw into MF or to package them for Lyn, although occasionally you’ll get a buyer who wants that particular item’s skin.

2. I salvage Blues for the materials. Greens I will check to see whether the rune/sigil on them is valuable. If it is, I salvage the rune/sigil and sell it on the TP. If not, I merch the Green.

Note that at higher item levels (70+), you could keep green items of the same type and try to combine them in the MF to get a Rare item which you can then salvage for Ectos. It’s not a guaranteed return of a Rare item though, from what I hear. Just an option you may want to consider.

My usual rules with drops are as follows:
- Salvage: Whites
-Vendor: Blues
-Throw into MF: Greens, I do realize just vendoring them or even checking the TP and selling them there may be safer and more profitful but the chance of getting a random rare is very tempting to me, and I also like a lot more the feeling of income in bigger numbers (instead of selling 20 greens for 1-2s each) and I cba to go check the TP for every single green I get on dungeon runs/ shelt and pen farming/etc.
-With Rares: I always check their TP price first, if my net earnings would be under 28-30s (which is what 1 ecto is worth atm) I salvage it, otherwise I sell it.
- With Exotics, usually TP since I’ve yet to find an Exotic thats under 30s lol.

Zaxares.5419:

to package them for Lyn

Isn’t she broken? I get a “This content is currently unavailable. Please check again later.” (or along the lines of that) message whenever I try to talk to her. I need my 250 use Salvage kits ;_;

EDIT: the 4 greens you throw into the MF don’t have to be of the same type to get a Rare. I’m not sure how it decides what you get if you throw in 4 different greens, but I’ve gotten Rares from combinations like this. I assume it chooses one of the types you use. Need confirmation?

Lyn is currently not accepting Commendations, no. However, you could still package them in the MF. Some players have stockpiled insane quantities of Commendations in anticipation of her return (which has been confirmed to be in the January update).

However, it has also been confirmed that Lyn will NOT be offering Black Lion Keys anymore when she returns, so if that was what you were gathering Commendations for, better ease up on the collecting.

Thanks for the help.

Hey Zaxares where did you see that she was not going to offer black lion keys anymore?

It’s worth noting that it may be worth Mystic forging the sigils if they’re not valuable, as you have a shot at upgrading them into something that is valuable.