Guild Wars 2

I know that karma and wvw gear are not salvageable to not give players the option to convert currency into mats/gold, but we could salvage them for the sigils/runes.

I don’t need mats from it, only be able to retrieve the upgrade would be enough.

Upgrade Extractors are available in the gem store.

Wanze.8410:

Upgrade Extractors are available in the gem store.

It is only worth if you need to get a Divinity/Traveler from a T3 armor.

You where able to for Karma when the game first came out and ppl made a lot of gold to the level of exploitation so they took it out.

FLiP.7680:

Wanze.8410:

Upgrade Extractors are available in the gem store.

It is only worth if you need to get a Divinity/Traveler from a T3 armor.

Well, what would you call buying karma gear at the temple of melandru and then being able to salvage a rune worth 4g off it, if not converting other currency into gold?

Wanze.8410:

FLiP.7680:

Wanze.8410:

Upgrade Extractors are available in the gem store.

It is only worth if you need to get a Divinity/Traveler from a T3 armor.

Well, what would you call buying karma gear at the temple of melandru and then being able to salvage a rune worth 4g off it, if not converting other currency into gold?

At a minimum cost of 200 gems (when you spend 5,000 on 25)…
You’d be much better off just converting gems to gold.

It’s like 100 gems for 6g right now.

12g > 4g.

Minos.5168:

Wanze.8410:

FLiP.7680:

Wanze.8410:

Upgrade Extractors are available in the gem store.

It is only worth if you need to get a Divinity/Traveler from a T3 armor.

Well, what would you call buying karma gear at the temple of melandru and then being able to salvage a rune worth 4g off it, if not converting other currency into gold?

At a minimum cost of 200 gems (when you spend 5,000 on 25)…
You’d be much better off just converting gems to gold.

It’s like 100 gems for 6g right now.

12g > 4g.

The last time i checked, Lightbringer Surefoot was offering Exotic Armor with Melandru Runes for 42k karma and not 200 gems.

The OP proposed to make runes/sigils on gear obtained with karma and badges of honor extractable with salvage kits, without getting common mats, ectos of globs of dark matter.

If you dont bother to read the OP, dont bother to reply.

And dont start with these gold/gems conversions.

If there was an item available with an upgrade substantially worth more than the 12g for 200 gems you just stated, people would just convert gold to gems to buy upgrade extractors until the gold to gem conversion rate would rise so high that it wasnt worth it anymore while the profitable item would loose value due to oversupply.

You also can’t salvage weapons with that zenith skins that we got with ap chests, also those wvw skins make your weapon non-salvageable.

IMO, with the Karma nerf there is NO REASON for this to be an issue.

I still salvage stuff and invitably run into something I cannot salvage. I dont know if it is because it is from personal story, some random karma purchase, or some other issue.

Quite frankly, a number of systems in GW2 have many exceptions that just make it hard to understand. I dont think I’ll ever understand Mystic Forge crafting. Some items you throw away, others you can always count on recipes converting things (ie, making ascended stuff via guarenteed upgrades).

This is one of those things that is confusing as hell and should be pulled out, or the game should warn you on it when purchasing that “NO SALVAGE AVAILABLE”. There is no reason to not inform your playerbase, especially with exceptions.

Or they could just make the karma merchants sell their runes for karma and make them account bound.

Problem solved