Guild Wars 2

Back when transmutation stones were a thing it cost around 50 gems to get each stone and we could use it to transmute the properties on to a different set of armor, therefore allowing us to salvage that after. But now we need to use upgrade extractors which is 250 gems each. And if you have runes that you put in WvW gear before this swap from transmutation stones to extractor then you’re potentially out a lot of gold with no way to recover them (i.e. things like runes of strength, scholar, etc).

I don’t know if anyone has found a workaround to this or not, but Anet should really bring down the price of the upgrade extractor to something more reasonable. At this time 250 gems is approx 32g x 6 = 192; whereas if you put runes of strength in then you’re out approx 60g. It’s a lose/lose situation, and it’s pretty annoying.

I’ve heard some people put armor in their banks and delete their characters to remove the soulbound on it and move the armor to another character that could potentially use it, but that wouldnt really make a difference in my case.

Is there anyway around this salvage lock?

Alchemist.3692:

I’ve heard some people put armor in their banks and delete their characters to remove the soulbound on it and move the armor to another character that could potentially use it, but that wouldnt really make a difference in my case.

Putting a soul bound item in a bank and then deleting the character does not remove the soul bind. It will remain soul bound in the bank and can only be deleted at that point.

Of all the quality of life stuff they could put into the game, I wish they would put in something to address this. It seems pretty simple, if the worry is about a flood of ectos/mats into the market, just make WvW gear salvage into Badges of Honor, and make Karma gear salvage into a bit of Karma instead of mats.

The only issue would be making crafted/dropped gear slightly less desirable, but would it really be that big of a problem? Do people really make money off of crafted gear? Would it really be that bad if Vials of Powerful blood went down in price a little?

Did you every think that this was done intentionally. There is no way to remove upgrades from any armor or weapon right now other than with an extractor or destroying any that are salvageable with a BLSK. Now since they don’t want to flood the market with mats and runes from items bought with alternative currency, they aren’t salvageable. So you are SOL. Chalk it up as a learning experience and don’t put upgrades in any item that isn’t bought with just gold from the TP.

Wvw armor costs 1g plus badges to make exotic, I see no plausible reason you shouldn’t be able to salvage rune out of it. You can buy regular exotic gear for under a gold to salvage for ecto, so what’s so special about wvw gear? (I understand for normal gear salvage spamming, but for exotic gear its kind of rediculous to not be able to)