Guild Wars 2

Raising my 8th toon, replaced a level 47 rare ring with another one of a higher level. I knew I could not sell the soulbound one on the Black Lion, so expected to salvage it. No joy. No salvage kit up through Masters will touch it. Tried to sell it on the merchant, but no joy. Would not even show up on the sell list. In fact, unlike the other two soulbound rare rings the toon has, this one won’t even show a merchant value when I mouseover it.

What am I missing?

It depends on the ring’s origin. Karma bought items, for instance, cannot be sold or salvaged. I think this also applies to a number of the level-up rewards we now get. Since you’re leveling, likely you got it on one of your dings. Those give pretty sweet gear for the level now, but the tradeoff is you don’t get to profit from it other than by however more efficient it makes you at killing and looting.

Donari.5237:

It depends on the ring’s origin. Karma bought items, for instance, cannot be sold or salvaged. I think this also applies to a number of the level-up rewards we now get. Since you’re leveling, likely you got it on one of your dings. Those give pretty sweet gear for the level now, but the tradeoff is you don’t get to profit from it other than by however more efficient it makes you at killing and looting.

Actually, it was a drop from the Maw, and I replaced it with a similar drop several days later, after I’d leveled 5 levels.

I’m actually not in a hurry to level this one, as it’s the 8th, with one of each class. So I run the Maw to gear her up with the rare drops, selling the misfits. Otherwise I confine her to gathering mid level wood and ore as needed for ascended mats. She’s regularly sold her displaced gear, or salvaged it, and this is the first time she can’t.

There are so many new bugs being injected into the game (stackable items that suddenly won’t stack, etc) I tend to think it must be just another bug. However, I find that many “bugs” are simply not understanding how things work and thought to ask. This one certainly is puzzling.

You can, however, toss Karma gear into the Mystic Forge. The result occasionally is a soulbound item, but is often just a piece of gear that you can salvage, sell, or equip.

It’s not a great return, but it’s something.

Found out yesterday you CANNOT toss Badge purchased Exotics into the MF (at least weapons)….. It makes sense (tons of badges would equal FREE precursor attempts), but I was just unaware of it.

Michael.9403:

Actually, it was a drop from the Maw, and I replaced it with a similar drop several days later, after I’d leveled 5 levels.

Maw doesn’t drop anything that’s “account/soulbound on acquire”, which is what that ring you’re talking about would have been if you can’t sell or salvage it. You probably did get it either as a leveling reward (most likely), PS reward (also likely), or bought from a karma vendor (not quite as likely as you’d probably remember if you bought it).

What is the name of the ring that you are unable to salvage/sell?

It is most likely a Karma item, which can only be thrown into the Mystic Forge when you are done with it.

mtpelion.4562:

What is the name of the ring that you are unable to salvage/sell?

It is most likely a Karma item, which can only be thrown into the Mystic Forge when you are done with it.

It is a Powerful Ring, 20 Power, 28 Precision, with a Carnelian Nugget in the upgrade slot.
The descriptor in the lower left corner (4 lines) reads Rare, Ring, Required Level:47, Soulbound. There is no value on the 5th line.

It was replaced by a Strong Ring, 32 Power, 23 Precision, nothing so far in the upgrade slot. It’s descriptor reads Rare, Ring, Required Level:53, Soulbound, and a value of 2s12c

The other hand ring is a Penetrating Ring, slightly different stats as the Strong, level 48, soulbound, with a value of 1s80c.

All three share the same graphic: a plain gold ring.

When I read the ring list on the wiki, the ring is not listed.

I cannot certify where she got it other than to say if was a drop. I do not buy anything for the Nth character when I am leveling it, with either karma or gold. They subsist on drops, and each drop is compared with what they are wearing, and if better, it goes on. I merchant or salvage the displaced item. I run the Maw with her religiously, because of the automatic rare, after first running it with an 80 to harvest the bonus at level 80. Thus she eventually has a rare in every slot, some a few levels behind her and probably not the perfect stat package. However, they are plenty good enough for Veterans and below on harvesting duty. She picks fights with veterans and adds just to make sure I half way understand how to play that class. If she falls far behind in gear level, I have all 8 crafters as high as they can go, and could stop and craft something for her, but so far I’ve not. Mid level harvesting just isn’t that tough a duty.

It is certainly not a karma purchase. I have the usual zillion excess karma that everyone has that’s played the game a while, but the only karma expenditures I’ve done in my lifetime in the game are the underwater breathers (7 at 1445 each) from the guy out in Cursed Shore, before some started showing up in the game, and 300 obsidian shards (3 visits) from the karma merchant in the Temple of Bathlthazar to craft ascendeds.

Thanks for the ideas. I know it’s not a big deal, but it’s a curosity, so kinda interesting.