Guild Wars 2

I recently started collecting mins by buying set packs from the BL market. As a result I have all these duplicate minis. I heard a guildy complaining that he sold one he wished he had kept because it was used in a recipe of some kind.

My question is, is it safe to sell the ones from sets (1, 2 & 3) or should I be keeping these to make into something else? Is there a page that discusses this in detail? I googled it but didn’t find much.

Any help with what to do with these would be great. Thanks!

I just checked the wiki and found the following:

“Many miniatures are acquired through opening Minis 3-Pack (Set 1)s, Minis 3-Pack (Set 2)s, and Minis 3-Pack (Set 3)s, which contain three randomly selected miniatures of which two are common and one is uncommon. These miniatures can also be used in the Mystic Forge by combining any four miniatures of the same rarity to create a random miniature of the same or higher rarity from any set, regardless of the set they came from. Some exceptions exist.” (bolding mine)

For reference, this is the wiki entry on minis at http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Miniature.

-Edited for accuracy as the content of Vayne’s statement proved it to be inaccurate-

Unless the minis are the Steam minis from Set 2, it appears the duplicate minis you have from sets 1, 2 and 3 are not used in forge recipes to produce a specific, unique mini and are safe to be traded away.

Before selling one, you may want to double check that it isn’t used in a recipe on its wiki page and the miniatures forge recipe page provided below.

As far as I know, the minis that are used in recipes that produce a unique mini are all are from the “Special” category, some of which can be traded, but most are account bound.

Though, be sure that they are from those sets and not the “Special” set. If they are from the “Special” set and tradeable, you can go ahead and sell them if they are able to be sold, unless you plan to forge them to get the other special minis.

Miniatures and set lists: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Miniature
Forge recipes: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Miscellaneous#Miniatures

I know for a fact, that certain minis from set two can be combined into other specific minis. Check out this page.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini_Steamrider

Now, this doesn’t count to any achievements. You don’t need special minis for those, but if you want them, the three steam minis can only be crafted by the forge or bought on the TP.

Vayne.8563:

I know for a fact, that certain minis from set two can be combined into other specific minis. Check out this page.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini_Steamrider

Now, this doesn’t count to any achievements. You don’t need special minis for those, but if you want them, the three steam minis can only be crafted by the forge or bought on the TP.

Ah, there it was. I thought there was at least one, but I was not able to find a recipe that used set 1, 2 or 3 minis to make a Special set mini.

You’re right, those Special set Steam minis are only acquirable via combining the 4 steam minis from set 2. I should have seen them while looking through the Forge Mini recipes at the link I posted earlier.

The Steam creature minis (Mini Steam Hulk, Mini Steam Minotaur, Mini Steamrider) seem to be the only ones (listed anyway) that use minis from a numbered set to make them.

I missed that wiki entry. >.< Thank you for all the responses. I will need to dig deeper and see what becomes what. The long lists tend to confuse me a bit.