Guild Wars 2

Is there any option in the future that will allow us to salvage ascended rings for ecots or tier 5/6 ingredients/Rare materials.

e.g. 3-5 ectos or Charged Lodestone.

Or an option that allow to put 4 ascended rings in to MF, so we can get exotic weapon or armor piece.

Yeah, I wish I could do SOMETHING with my excess rings.

If you think I’m going to just vendor Ascended-tier gear, you’d be insane.

nice collection…too bad you cant sell them, if you had the one i want, i would buy it, insteand of ten days of daily

Yeah I’d love to give them to a friend or something, because they are completely worthless to me. It’s not fair that I get blessed with RNG and they get nothing.

That screenshot and Auesis’s anecdote are evidence enough that the “RNG” system is not as random as it seems.

One or two extra over the course of many FOTM compared to friends is expected in RNG, but the law of averages says the quantity of drops should even out.

This is clearly not the case.

Their drop algorithms (particularly DR) are broken.

This is so easily solved by just making them buy/sellable on the Trading Post.

“But we don’t want power being bought and sold”, you say? I would point out the devs have already confirmed that Legendaries are supposed to be sellable on the Trading Post, so it’s pretty clear they don’t care if power is bought and sold in this game. So why not just allow Ascended gear to be bought and sold, too?

critickitten.1498:

This is so easily solved by just making them buy/sellable on the Trading Post.

“But we don’t want power being bought and sold”, you say? I would point out the devs have already confirmed that Legendaries are supposed to be sellable on the Trading Post, so it’s pretty clear they don’t care if power is bought and sold in this game. So why not just allow Ascended gear to be bought and sold, too?

Because players would obtain the items faster meaning there would be less for them to do in the long run

I would appreciate Rings being salvageable for Ectoplasm and Vials/Globs/Shards of Condensed Mist Essence.

critickitten.1498:

This is so easily solved by just making them buy/sellable on the Trading Post.

“But we don’t want power being bought and sold”, you say? I would point out the devs have already confirmed that Legendaries are supposed to be sellable on the Trading Post, so it’s pretty clear they don’t care if power is bought and sold in this game. So why not just allow Ascended gear to be bought and sold, too?

While I don’t agree with Legendaries being available on the TP, your point is moot because Legendaries aren’t power. You can buy the exact same power as the Juggernaut for 2 or 3 gold. Aside from being convertible to a higher tier when they become available, you don’t gain power by owning a Legendary. You gain a sign of respect for your hard work/wealth but not for your power.

its not about selling them, it’s about the capacity to do anything but vendor.

No items should be unsalvageable without good reason.

I wish you could trade them to an NPC for the one you want. Even if its an X:1 ratio of some value.

RoRo.8270:

Because players would obtain the items faster meaning there would be less for them to do in the long run

You mean like how Legendaries are bought and sold right now?

The devs clearly don’t care about that, so that’s not much of an excuse.

GoZero.9708:

While I don’t agree with Legendaries being available on the TP, your point is moot because Legendaries aren’t power. You can buy the exact same power as the Juggernaut for 2 or 3 gold. Aside from being convertible to a higher tier when they become available, you don’t gain power by owning a Legendary. You gain a sign of respect for your hard work/wealth but not for your power.

Your point has already been proven false before, so rather than re-posting that same argument (again) I’m going to post the simplified version:

An item that infinitely scales up every time the level cap and best tiers of items come out? That is a power. It’s an intangible one, certainly, but in the long term (which is what people should be looking at, instead of saying “oh, but X is so far out that it’s not worth worrying about”) it’s the best possible power in the game.

critickitten, yeah, but you know, i could go spend 2000 gold and never have to worry about buying another weapon ever again, or i could drop 3g for a new weapon every expansion and get the exact same stats+a new skin i might like. so, how many expansions would they have to release before you start saving time and money? about 600?

plasmacutter.2709:

its not about selling them, it’s about the capacity to do anything but vendor.

No items should be unsalvageable without good reason.

No item should be unsalvageable period, full stop, end of story. The bauble is mine, if I want to decon it, that’s my bizz, period. Never mind ascended. I’m sick of not being able to salvage soulbound stuff cause I had the temerity to use it. And no, not all soulbound. Can’t even sell the crap to trash vendors, have to just throw it out to clear space. Heaven forbid I should decon the gear I outgrew.

Can I just trade mine to an NPC for Destroyer Lodestones?

critickitten.1498:

RoRo.8270:

Because players would obtain the items faster meaning there would be less for them to do in the long run

You mean like how Legendaries are bought and sold right now?

The devs clearly don’t care about that, so that’s not much of an excuse.

GoZero.9708:

While I don’t agree with Legendaries being available on the TP, your point is moot because Legendaries aren’t power. You can buy the exact same power as the Juggernaut for 2 or 3 gold. Aside from being convertible to a higher tier when they become available, you don’t gain power by owning a Legendary. You gain a sign of respect for your hard work/wealth but not for your power.

Your point has already been proven false before, so rather than re-posting that same argument (again) I’m going to post the simplified version:

An item that infinitely scales up every time the level cap and best tiers of items come out? That is a power. It’s an intangible one, certainly, but in the long term (which is what people should be looking at, instead of saying “oh, but X is so far out that it’s not worth worrying about”) it’s the best possible power in the game.

Legendaries aren’t something you just go out and buy unless you’re a power trader. They obviously want players to keep replaying fractals

Ascended rings = vendor trash.

Great design!

LOCO.1785:

Ascended rings = vendor trash.

Great design!

It’s endgame.

should let us salvage them and turn them into mist essences.

Zlociutki.9165:

LOCO.1785:

Ascended rings = vendor trash.

Great design!

It’s endgame.

Oh, well that explains everything.

So, did anything change in the topic?

Nope, still can’t salvage them

What about future changes, any Dev said anything anywhere? :]

Please add salvaging to them!

I’ve literally vendored hundreds of them. Or just toss them out I’d I’m not near a vendor. Kind of doubt this will change unfortunately.

Yes please, I am now at 419 ascended rings on my account.

Let us put 4 of any sort into the forge and spit out 30 pristine fractal relics, at least we could turn them into other rings with stats we want, fractal items etc.