Guild Wars 2

Hey, one thing I like about MMO games is crafting. But like many crafting enthusiast most of the time I craft more pieces than I need so I’m forced to either sell them or delete.

But why don’t we just have the option to salvage materials that we craft? Like ‘Wool Vestments Lining’ or ‘’Mithril plated dowel’‘? I’m not saying we should get 100% of ingredients used in the crafting of the materials but maybe 50% or even 30%.

For example;
‘’Wool Vestments Lining’’ ingredient: 1x Bolt of Wool
1x ‘’Bolt of Wool’’ ingredient: 2x Wool Scrap
Salvaged ‘’Wool Vestments Lining’’ gives you: 1x Wool Scrap

Example 2:
‘’Mithril Plated Dowel’’ ingredients: 2x Mithril Ingot, 2x Elder Wood Plank
1x ‘’Mithril Ingot’’ ingredients: 2x Mithril Ore
1x ‘’Elder Wood Plank’’ ingredients: 3x Elder Wood Log
Salvaged ‘’Mithril Plated Dowel’’ gives you: 1x ‘’Mithril Ingot’’ or 1x ‘’Mithril Ore’‘, also, 1 ’’Elder Wood Plank’’ or 2x ‘’Elder Wood Log’’

Comments and other suggestions will be much appreciated.

This seems like it would be a large-ish amount of work to go in and add salvage options to so many crafted mats, and frankly I don’t see a need for all of them to be salvageable. How about just some of them, something like:

• “Expensive” mats like patches that require a fair amount of refined mats compared to other crafted mats of the same tier

• Level 80 insignias

• Ascended mats (ideally it would be nice to be able to salvage the refined ascended mats as well, being able to store thousands of extra bloodstone dust in bricks is hella useful, especially since the dust has many more uses than the bricks do)

• Salvage Charged quartz back into ~20 quartz crystals

Possibly a few more. But I don’t think that all crafted mats need to be made salvageable

I can sort of understand where this request is coming from, but I find it highly unnecessary. For one thing, the complete assembled item can be salvaged for these base components. If you assembled one of the component items, then suddenly needed it back, you’ve got to go all the way through. A little forethought goes a long way in these things. For another, every crafting component sells for a high price on the trading post, and has for as long as I can remember. Now, I didn’t start crafting items until long after I got my first level 80 character, but that was back in October 2012, so I think I can reliably say that crafting components always sell for a good price, far more than the parts like wool scraps or even bolts. So if you do desperately need the base material, you could easily sell it and buy more materials from the sale price than you ever could from just salvaging it. Plus, I don’t think they are exactly flooding the market like fine or masterwork items were before luck became an item.