Guild Wars 2

Look up the price of Rune of Melandru.

14 gold at the time of this post.

The reason for this is that Runes of Melandru can only be gotten either by Mystic Forge or by taking them from gear from the Temple of Melandru.

Thanks to the new Wardrobe system, Melandru Runes cannot be extracted from armor from the Temple of Melandru any longer. You cannot use Transmutation Crystals to move them around like you used to be able to. It is almost impossible to take Melandru runes out of these pieces of gear now if bought with Karma, which has skyrocketed the price of Melandru runes tremendously.

Personally, I don’t use Melandru runes. I’m in a predicament where several of my characters have gear that was originally bought with Karma or WvW badges, and I now cannot remove the runes or move them around. I’ve got a ton of gold locked up in armor with no way to get them out.

There IS one way, of course – the Upgrade Extractor. But those are incredibly expensive.

There NEEDS to be a way to get Runes out of gear that was bought via karma or WvW badges. Even if it destroys the gear with no other pieces left other than the upgrades put inside, the effect this is having on the price of certain rune sets is crazy. And it’s locking a lot of us out of our own money if we put expensive runes into Karma/WvW gear.

At the very least, Badge of Honor gear.

Dungeon gear is salvageable, why isn’t BoH gear?

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I see the reason for karma not being salvageable, as there were exploits at the beginning of the game, but why not just make all level 80 exotic gear salvageable? I would understand not making karma level 80 exotics salvageable, but BoH gear? So PvE nerds can salvage their old gear to get their runes/sigils out, but WvWers cant?

ANet is just driving players from the game, especially WvWers. Between the crit damage nerf, blantant ingorance of WvW players and their simple requests, and obvious favor of the condition meta (which, by the way, is an incredibly passive playstyle, meaning you play the game less and let your build play the game for you, resulting in unskilled players still winning in PvP), I having a hard time coming up with any reason to continue playing this game. The one thing that has me clinging on is the Blackgate QQ tears, but that will only last through the end of the season. While the finale of QQ will be glorious, I’m not going to continue to play the game based on simply past memories of glory.

ANet, your next steps are extremely important. If you aren’t careful, you are going to lose a very large playerbase in WvW. Then again, ANet has shown that they give 0 kittens about WvW players. There is however, one silver lining to all of this: ESO. The AvA is fantastic, and the PvE is actually incredibly entertaining. ANet needs to stop forcing PvE down our throats. ANet, your PvE is kitten. Rewards are the only thing players play it for. If you want us to play and enjoy your PvE content, you seriously need to overhaul the mechanics and layouts of dungeons and monsters inside said dungeons, rather than causing enormous meta shifts in WvW because you want to make dungeons harder by nerfing crit damage. How about you actually add mechanics to the PvE requiring builds other than full zerk, you kitten kittens?

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This needs to be done. +1 The upgrade extractor is heck expensive considering that it only works on one piece of gear.

I second this.
In my bank dusts away a ton useless BoH- & Karmagear that i will never use anyway but takes up a lot of space. I would even be glad if i could at least throw it into the forge.

That last patch did more harm than good. My time spent in this game went from roughly six to two hours anyway, so i am seriously considering changing the game.

This needs to be addressed, we need a way to salvage the runes out of Karma or BoH gear. If being able to salvage it has a bad influence on the economy, give us an option to destroy it and save the rune, it would be perfect!

agree,
both karma gear and WWW badge gear.
we have to have a way to save our runes and sigils.

if Anet worried about the economy (karma/badges to gold) just make the runes/sigils obtained from account bound gear to account bound.

Boy, makes me glad I grabbed my set of Melandru runes at around 6g 30s when I realized this would happen… though now I’m tempted to salvage my armor just to sell the runes if they hit the 25~28g range I expect them to.

I agree with the OP. I foolishly forgot to give my Mesmer his new rare breather before the patch. Although the rare breather has better stats than the current one, it does not have the superior sigil (worth 4G) the current breather has. And the current breather cannot be salvaged as it is a karma item. At the moment my Mesmer is better of with his old breather with the far superior rune (pun not intended).

+1
the extractor was always a joke with it’s price, and now our other options of transmuting our expensive runes from our exotics to our ascendeds is completely gone.