Guild Wars 2

How can there be items on the TP which you can’t salvage?
Is there a list of items you have to take care of buying them?

Can you try to reword that in a way that makes sense? I want to help but I have no idea what you’re asking.

you have the same item on the tp twice. one is salvageable – the other not. and i wondered how this is happening.

Uh, can you give an example?

Medium Chest Armor Lvl 20 Basic

You’ll find them in just the white armor. The salvgagable ones come from drops while the others are sold from armor vendors. The vendor ones aren’t salvageable just like your karma or badge gear. I wish they were soulbound on acqire that way they wouldn’t show up on the TP.

Basically gear is divided into three basic types, note I said types not rarities:

(i) General gear equipable at stated levels or below, fully tradable/sellable and salvageable at any level with any type of salvage kit.

(ii) Accountbound gear equipable at stated levels or below, fully tradable between characters on the same account and sellable to ‘local’ merchants/vendors but not at Black Lion. Salvageable at any level with any type of salvage kit.

(iii) Soulbound gear equipable at stated levels or below by the ‘owning’ character, not sellable to vendors/merchants or at Black Lion and not tradable between characters on an account. Salvageable only by the ‘owning’ character with any type of salvage kit.

Where it gets a little complicated is when you factor in ‘reward’ gear, meaning items received from completing personal story segments, leveling up rewards and ‘karma bought’ items. All of these can be any of (ii) or (iii) above and while some accountbound rewards can be sold to vendors/merchants others can’t be, none of these can be sold at Black Lion. Some of these reward items also can’t be salvaged, only destroyed to remove from inventory if unwanted.

None of this however should enable the sale of account or soulbound gear on Black Lion, meaning any gear you buy there can be salvaged – Unless after buying it you equip and by doing so ‘convert’ it into accountbound or soulbound gear.

The obvious answers if you buy two identical items from Black Lion and find you can only salvage one of them are either that your client is bugged in some way, you accidentally bound one by unlocking its skin to your wardrobe, or you equipped it and changed its ‘type’.

Personally I’ve never heard of this particular problem before, could you confirm you actually bought two of exactly the same item and without unlocking skins or equipping either found you couldn’t salvage both?

If the answer is yes, report it as bug by submitting a ticket to support. Screenshots showing both items, with one highlighted red to show its not salvageable would be helpful – particularly if the shot of your inventory also showed you had salvage kit(s) in inventory. The reference to ‘highlighted red’ reflects that non-salvageable items appear red in inventory when you activate a salvage kit – just in case you didn’t know.

Bbear.7830:

The obvious answers if you buy two identical items from Black Lion and find you can only salvage one of them are either that your client is bugged in some way, you accidentally bound one by unlocking its skin to your wardrobe, or you equipped it and changed its ‘type’.

Personally I’ve never heard of this particular problem before, could you confirm you actually bought two of exactly the same item and without unlocking skins or equipping either found you couldn’t salvage both?

If the answer is yes, report it as bug by submitting a ticket to support. Screenshots showing both items, with one highlighted red to show its not salvageable would be helpful – particularly if the shot of your inventory also showed you had salvage kit(s) in inventory. The reference to ‘highlighted red’ reflects that non-salvageable items appear red in inventory when you activate a salvage kit – just in case you didn’t know.

These are the items he is talking about. The gear can’t be salvaged because that would screw up the crafting market, but you are able to sell the gear on the TP to get some money back. There is also a version that drops from mobs which is salvageable. You can usually tell which one is the unsalvageable by looking at the by order. The Unsalvageable one will usually be a lot lower.

Also changing the binding does not change whether it can be salvaged or not. Anything blue and lower doesn’t soulbind ether.

Thanks Bbear for the effort und thanks simplesimon for the helpful answer.
So you have to take care of items with Basic rarity with levels of multiples of 5. They really should be accountbound on acquire.