Guild Wars 2

It’s now the last thing to do for my monthly September achievement but after trying it out.. i’m losing more than 50% cash from selling the salvaged items on the trading post than if i were to just vendor the gear. is there something that i’m missing here or am i really to lose money out on 1,000 pieces of equipment (let alone buying the salvage kits) for this? is the reward worth it?

Salvaging requirement is a joke. I stopped doing it once I realised I needed 500 salvages.
Not going to waste all that money for a rubbish reward.

Depends on how bad you need the mats.

You can get the achievment buy just salvaging salvage-items, you don’t need to destroy gear you could otherwise sell.

lol ~ Globs of Ectoplasem.. are a lv80 exotic crafting mat that is “acquired” by salvaging rare/exotic gear and weapons .Each one sells for 20-30 silver one the Trading Post.*btw, just salvaging all the whites/greens/blues from the starting areas+ will net you TONS of money via Jute scraps and Copper ore. *(each sells for bout 17-28 copper on the TP).So yea.. not sure you’re looking at this from every angle

Really? Maybe on some tiers the items vendor for more than the mats sell on TP, but I think salvaging whites and salvage items always nets a profit. Especially in Copper/Jute tiers, in which a 9 copper item can be salvaged for 20-60 copper on the TP. You only need to use Crude kits, too, which are about 2 copper per salvage.

The point is to get materials for crafting. If you want to reduce the money you lose when going for the achievement only use the basic kits on whites and dedicated salvage items and vendor blues and put greens and up in tp if you don’t need em. That is how i do it and still make pretty decent money while still getting mats for crafting.

I’m level 50 atm so the only ore I’m getting from salvaging items my level is iron which goes for 10c a piece on the TP. even if i sometimes get 2 pieces of iron that’s a big loss when the items i’m salvaging vendor for 30+. I’ll sometimes break even if i get 3 pieces of cotton or something similar.

Ecto’s aren’t 100% chance to be salvaged, but also have a chance to get up to 3. The current minimum price to sell a rare 70+ for is 17s, there are only 2 others below 20s. The current price for ecto’s is 20s. It currently isn’t known what the average number of ecto’s salvaged per rare is (no one has assembled a sample size large enough to confirm their averages). In my experience though (with my limited sample size), it’s more profitable to sell a rare on the AH or throw it into the mystic forge (if it’s 80) than to salavage with ectos in mind. It could be that i’m just unlucky when it comes to ectos though.

Fende.1950:

Ecto’s aren’t 100% chance to be salvaged, but also have a chance to get up to 3. The current minimum price to sell a rare 70+ for is 17s, there are only 2 others below 20s. The current price for ecto’s is 20s. It currently isn’t known what the average number of ecto’s salvaged per rare is (no one has assembled a sample size large enough to confirm their averages). In my experience though (with my limited sample size), it’s more profitable to sell a rare on the AH or throw it into the mystic forge (if it’s 80) than to salavage with ectos in mind. It could be that i’m just unlucky when it comes to ectos though.

Hmm, then only salvage “cloth” epics/exotics.
You get Gossamere scraps, which sells for 5 silver each on the AH/TP.

There are some items that you can buy on the TC that you can salvage and resell those mats for a net gain. I love doing it and it leads to a pretty hefty return. Some items aren’t worth salvaging, naturally.

Well, ecto’s ori ore and gossomar scraps