Guild Wars 2

Junk items waste inventory space. This post is to serve as a list of which items should no longer drop because they serve no purpose in game. Junk items whose value is mere copper only serve to detract from the gaming experience by forcing a player to return to a vendor repeatedly.

Glob of Globby Goop
Stone
Cogs
Chipped Fang
Shocking Crystals
Spike
Barb
Unidentified Object
Broken Lockpicks
Gear
Porous Bone
Dark Stained Claws
Sprockets
Crumbling Bones

Junk items whose value is mere copper only serve to detract from the gaming experience by forcing a player to return to a vendor repeatedly.

or you could… you know…. just delete them from your bag instead of visiting that vendor. problem solved without removing them from the game

I figure I get a couple of gold/week from ‘junk’ such as you describe. And I don’t “return to a vendor repeatedly” — just once at the end of a session for that toon (or less often if it’s a toon parked at a JP).

There are a couple of reasons to dish out liquid rewards via ‘junk’ instead of coin:

• People don’t notice coin drops. As you say, they go directly to the wallet and most of us don’t realize the value.
• Most people like getting a lot of junk more than they like getting an occasional single item worth the sum of the junk.
• It’s a way of standardizing loot table values and making Magic Find count — low MF gets more junk; high MF get more stuff. (On average, over long periods of time; past performance is no predictor of future earnings; your mileage will vary; don’t bend, spindle, or mutilate.)

Plus, ANet can put some of the items into collections and it adds some color to otherwise same-old/same-old drops.