Guild Wars 2

Hello all, as we harbour a salvaging culture here in Guild Wars 2, we undoubtedly receive many useless sigils, runes, crests and more when trying to get some materials.
So, the annoying part is, we cannot bank sigils. They have to be destroyed or sold by an NPC. What I’m suggesting is simple…

Allow us to salvage sigils, runes and crests for new types of materials.
These new materials received by them will be used to make ascended jewels by the level 500 Jewelcrafter.

• Sigils will drop Magnificent dust (or something, the names are irrevelant). These will be akin to Bloodstone dust.

• Runes will drop Adamantine shards. These will be akin to Dragonite ore.

• Crests, medallions, seals, talismans and marks will drop Elusive coating. These will be akin to Empyreal fragments.

Salvaging them will not always yield the new mats, but if you get one, you get only 1 piece (because there are TOO many of these useless items in-game).

Making them into useable mats requires 100 pieces like the bricks, ingots and stars.

I’m expecting them to be slightly less difficult to get as they are with Fractals at the moment. The amulets and accessories of course will require a lot more effort since they are laurel-locked.

Also, perhaps we could get a refund by returning out laurel-bought ascendeds?

Give me some feedback on how you’d like this!

Hmm, can we drop sigils/runes in the mystic forge? Would be kind of nice to be able to at least try to upgrade weak sigils/runes/seals/etc into better ones.

Although salvaging them into materials could be good too…or perhaps both?

Leo G.4501:

Hmm, can we drop sigils/runes in the mystic forge? Would be kind of nice to be able to at least try to upgrade weak sigils/runes/seals/etc into better ones.

You already can do that. You can’t do that with exotic ones though.

Well, you CAN bank sigils, and they do stack, so you can hold onto ones you want. I generally keep hold of any superior sigils I find (even the “useless” ones), although it would obviously be a real pain to do that for people who have tight bank space.

I would like to be able to throw 4 superior sigils in the forge to get another random superior sigil, much like you can throw 4 exotics in to get another guaranteed exotic. This way, the “useless” sigils could have the possibility of being transformed into a more valuable sigil, thus there would be a point to hold onto them.

Of course, I still have at least one entire bank tab dedicated to holding all the excess ascended rings I have, and those are even worse than sigils since they don’t stack and can’t be tossed in the forge.

We still haven’t seen electrum or crystalline ingots enter the game, though it seems like they at least geared the former towards ascended jewel crafting. Rather than implementing new materials, they’d probably focus on using the ones they’ve already created but haven’t put in the game.

Though with the way ascended trinkets currently work in the game, I’m not even sure how they would implement ascended jewel crafting in the first place. It’s quite likely we might see that stuff get used in the expansion though, and maybe they’ll have more plans for these “useless” sigils (and hopefully something to do with ascended rings other than vendoring them).

Leo G.4501:

Hmm, can we drop sigils/runes in the mystic forge? Would be kind of nice to be able to at least try to upgrade weak sigils/runes/seals/etc into better ones.

Although salvaging them into materials could be good too…or perhaps both?

Well we can upgrade them through the mystic well, but I tested it a week ago, and it’s a useless undertaking…

Hmm doesn’t seem like this would be very popular among players.

I always throw runes and sigils into the Mystic Forge. Sometimes, I get lucky and make a few gold coins out of it. Most of the time, I don’t.

Derigar.7810:

Hmm doesn’t seem like this would be very popular among players.

Well it is more clicking that nobody really needs more of in GW2.

Instead of adding (yet another) crafting material, they could just make Sigils/Runes salvage into varying tiers of the already existing Dust (Masterworks -> Tiers 1-2, Rares -> 3-4, Exotics -> 5-6).

Alternately, they could salvage into the Essence/Fragment/Shard/Core/Lodestone family of materials, since many Runes and Sigils require those ingredients in the first place. That would probably even out the prices of many Runes and Sigils, since the dirt-cheap/‘useless’ ones become more valuable as people buy them for salvaging, while increasing the potential supply of Essences-Lodestones, so I imagine there’d be a lot of gnashing of teeth regarding such a change. Just food for thought though.

Otherwise yeah I agree. I chuck piles of salvaged Rare Sigils and Runes in the Mystic Forge. Sometimes something good comes of it. I do support the idea of being able to re-Forge the Exotic ones though. It would probably help them gain some value in a similar way as stated above.

I really like that idea.
I myself have a guild bank slot just for runes and sigils. Though I only safe the exotic ones, I sometimes sell the rares on the tp for a bit more coins, and the masterwork ones just… thank god the merchants have unlimited amounts of 16 copper

dadoppelny.7945:

I really like that idea.
I myself have a guild bank slot just for runes and sigils. Though I only safe the exotic ones, I sometimes sell the rares on the tp for a bit more coins, and the masterwork ones just… thank god the merchants have unlimited amounts of 16 copper

Hahaha, yeah I myself to tend to sell them. I’m just happy there are many a merchant strewn around the world. I just feel that we could have a better use for them but salvaging them doesn’t seem the answer.

Derigar.7810:

Hello all, as we harbour a salvaging culture here in Guild Wars 2, we undoubtedly receive many useless sigils, runes, crests and more when trying to get some materials.
So, the annoying part is, we cannot bank sigils. They have to be destroyed or sold by an NPC. What I’m suggesting is simple…

Allow us to salvage sigils, runes and crests for new types of materials.
These new materials received by them will be used to make ascended jewels by the level 500 Jewelcrafter.

• Sigils will drop Magnificent dust (or something, the names are irrevelant). These will be akin to Bloodstone dust.

• Runes will drop Adamantine shards. These will be akin to Dragonite ore.

• Crests, medallions, seals, talismans and marks will drop Elusive coating. These will be akin to Empyreal fragments.

Salvaging them will not always yield the new mats, but if you get one, you get only 1 piece (because there are TOO many of these useless items in-game).

Making them into useable mats requires 100 pieces like the bricks, ingots and stars.

I’m expecting them to be slightly less difficult to get as they are with Fractals at the moment. The amulets and accessories of course will require a lot more effort since they are laurel-locked.

Also, perhaps we could get a refund by returning out laurel-bought ascendeds?

Give me some feedback on how you’d like this!

Actually, you can bank sigils, by putting them in one of your main item bank tabs. I think what you meant is that you can’t automatically send them to crafting mats storage, or there’s no category for runes and sigils available in that storage, which I grant is a problem. I almost always sell them on the TP or merch them, except for the odd superior sigil or rune here or there (I save high-value things like superior Bloodlust, Force or Traveler) since generally all the major or minor runes I might need are available on TP for low cost (there seems to be a bit of a run on minor Bloodlust sigils lately though).

I don’t care about salvaging them.
I just want an auto delete option in my bags.
I’m addicted to salvaging and I spend more time deleting sigils/runes than I do salvaging :I

I was actually going to come on to the forums and suggest this xD

i usually loot out\salvage my stuffs near a vendor and just sell off the sigils and runes…cept its an exotic thats notable more worth on the TP then what the vendor would give me for it. I got no real issue with them…though i do have a sort of idea\suggestion that might be neat to have arround. A tab in the bank for sigils and runes…i mean we can store gemstones there too and you can slap em onto equipment…why not the same for sigils and runes?

Unloveableone.6082:

I don’t care about salvaging them.
I just want an auto delete option in my bags.
I’m addicted to salvaging and I spend more time deleting sigils/runes than I do salvaging :I

I was actually going to come on to the forums and suggest this xD

Haha, great minds think alike?

No, but on a serious note, I’d love to see Ascended jewellery enter the game at some point. I think this solves 2 problems if we could salvage sigils and runes.