Guild Wars 2

I have a big problem. Before ascended gear was released I invested into the best sigils and runes for my exotic gear, that I got from WvW. But now I have full Ascended gear and all the sigils and runes I have on my old armor/weaps are simply “stuck” there – and they are worth ~90 gold, not a small amount for a WvW player. Atm one extractor costs ~31 gold and is of no use at all (none of the sigils I have is worth more then 31g individually).

Don’t you think that with the new ascended gear released it would have been fair to “unlock” the ability to salvage exotic WvW gear ?

Do you think its worth to storage my WvW gear in the bank in hope that one day they decide to give us an option or ‘save’ the sigils and runes from them ? :/

It’s wvw related, so it’s not gonna happen. We’ve all given up hope of this ever being changed as it has been requested since just shortly after release and 2 years later nothing has been done about it- probably because they are worried that we will use our badges to buy armor/weapons and then salvage them for mats..which would lose gold but hey, can’t be too careful, right?

I hate to give you the bad news, but by default, no ascended gear can be salvaged. So your problem will persist once you want to remove the sigils and runes from your new gear =\

Aiuris.9861:

I hate to give you the bad news, but by default, no ascended gear can be salvaged. So your problem will persist once you want to remove the sigils and runes from your new gear =\

Considering that Ascended is and will always be the top tier of gear, there is really no reason to remove runes/sigils from your Ascended gear. Well, unless you want to try an entirely different build using the same runes/sigils.

As for the WvW gear not being salvageable: I don’t think it ever should be truly salvageable. At best, I would hope that you were able to use a salvage kit, but only had the chance of getting the rune/sigil back, with the armor disappearing without giving you any mats.

The only reason this is a problem, at all, for anyone, is because of the removal of transmutation with the inclusion of the Wardrobe system. The system was meant to stop us from destroying gear in order to preserve stats, but in the process they made it so we would lose access to our potentially even more valuable runes/sigils.