Guild Wars 2

As unfortunate as it is, I suspect the only viable suggestion you’ll get is to invest in upgrade extractors despite the fact that the runes/sigils aren’t going to cover that cost.

The reason why a lot of armour isn’t salvageable is to avoid undermining the economy.

For instance, there’s a lot of armour that could be bought with karma, salvaged and the materials sold for huge profit. Karma is so easy to obtain on a per-hour basis that materials price would crash.

Sure, you can throw 4 pieces of karma armour into the forge to get a salvageable item, but ultimately this means that you’d have to pay 4x as much karma to obtain a salvageable item than you would otherwise.

They can’t balance karma gain by lowering karma rewards or increasing karma vendor items in price, either. The price is balanced for new/levelling players meaning that they can gear themselves out with the karma achieved by completing the associated tasks.

What they should have done is make that kind of items salvage for barely nothing in mats.

It would crash the market of the “nearly impossible to drop” runes and sigils one can buy socket in items from the karma vendors.