Guild Wars 2

will there ever be a way for people to salvage ascendant gear or trade it out or some thing ?

i have a full set of ascendant zerk gear and i am just stuck with it
it will cost so much just to change build :S

Do you not like PvE?

One of the reasons I hate ascended gear.

But here’s something that others will most likely say (along the lines):
“But you don’t need ascended gear to do stuff in this game.”

I would recommend you keep your Berserker set regardless, it’s a good statistical set to carry around for when you want to be a damage dealer. Min-maxing is an expensive endeavour for sure, but you can get by with Exotics in most cases too. I prefer absolute min-maxing however, so my goals will always be the best, which is Ascended. I do however wish we could salvage or even sell our unused Ascended trinkets/armor we get as rewards, on the Trading Post. After so many hundreds of Fractal runs, you start to get a wee bit too many rings, and it sort of hurts to vendor them for just a couple Silver. I have no real reason to carry two Berserker sets, two Sentinel sets, two Soldier sets, so these boxes I’ve gotten in WvW/PvE aren’t exactly that useful to me. I’d rather give them away/salvage/sell them.

Most builds are revolving around a select few stats anyways. Berserker, Rabid, Soldier (and/or Sentinel) and Cleric. The main two statistical combinations you should aim for would probably be Berserker and Rabid, physical- and condition damage. Then either Soldier, Sentinel or Cleric for your “bunker” build (which is a bit less useful in PvE, since we can’t really tank and hold enemy focus on ourselves, but still an option. Cleric can also be good for a support build that does healing spread out to other players). Still, 3 sets aren’t cheap, especially if you’re a Light armor wearer as myself. There’s also other favorites like Valkyrie to consider.

Ultimately, I hope they get around to adding Legendary armor sets soon. If nothing else, expenses involved in making all these sets aside, these sets of armors are taking up so much inventory space, it’s really frustrating, even when you got Permanent Bank, Trading Post, Merchant, Mystic Forge and salvage kit consumable items. Now the cost for that would probably be rather worse, but you know, I’d be alright with that.. if it means I could free up some inventory space. But then I need to be able to retire my old sets I guess. Salvaging would be nice..