Guild Wars 2

So I wanted to replace my Sylvari necro with an Asura necro because that Witch Hat looks so much better on Asurans! However, I noticed that I would be unable to salvage my necro’s WvW gear when HoT comes out because I am unable to put his gear into other character’s inventories to salvage. Curious why this restriction is a thing and if there is a way around it?

Nope you cant salvage karma and wvw badge armors

You can wait till HoT and then salvage armor and remake your necro.
Or buy a character slot and make a 2nd necro.

ArenaNet has indicated that they intend to allow you to salvage WvW gear in an upcoming patch. It will salvage into the upgrades and WvW Badges (not materials).

Better to keep an old char than delete. Birthday gifts, and birthday titles that will take longer to get if that’s your oldest char. Use it for storage and park it at a node or chest for a daily harvest.

I think people misunderstand the question. OP is stating that the WvW armor soulbound to (I assume now deleted) sylvari necro cannot be salvaged by any character (now or in the future) because it cannot be moved from the bank to inventory as it is soulbound to a character that has since been deleted.

As far as the answer is concerned, I am not sure as to why that restriction (on moving/salvaging soulbound items by other characters) is in place.

Yeah, this is more of the issue ^

Ah. Well, since its soulbound to a deleted char, you’ll probably have to delete the armor since you can’t move it from your bank to a char in order to salvage it.

Wait.. witch hat is available again?

This won’t help this time around, but in general you want to avoid deleting a character (especially old ones) in guild wars and guild wars 2.

Primary reason is that birthday gifts are based on character age. Deleting that 2 year old veteran character you had might throw you back a long stretch of birthday gifts.

On topic, wait until the HoT upgrade and see if the items are salvagable then. Otherwise delete.

you may THINK it looks better on Asura………. until you enter combat mode, and notice your ears sticking straight up, clipping through the brim… I personally am very bothered by the change of Asuran ears in combat mode.. clips through anything with a brim.

You could try re creating the old character name. I know the soulbound items indicate who they are soulbound to. Highly doubt this will work but if you have an extra slot it would only take 1 min to test.

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You could try re creating the old character name. I know the soulbound items indicate who they are soulbound to. Highly doubt this will work but if you have an extra slot it would only take 1 min to test.

Does not work. I try it one time. Once delete character all item soul bound in bank lost forever. Can only delete them.