Guild Wars 2

I’ve only been playing for a few days, so I’ll admit I’m probably missing something obvious. Salvaging seems to no longer work on my used gear, although I’m sure I’ve used it on some old gear before. It still seems to work on drops, but I want to salvage my used gear, particularly to try to get the upgrade items back. Right now, my bags are starting to fill up with used gear that I can’t seem to break down into salvage.

When I try to salvage it, it doesn’t get the green arrows, and nothing happens at all. Is there some criteria of what can be salvaged that I’m missing?

If it’s been bought with karma you can not salvage or sell it. All you can do is toss it out.

Thanks! That is most likely my problem.

All gear bought with karma was nerfed in the first weeks of September and since then it can’t be sold or salvaged – important to know that all upgrades you put in any gear bought with karma are lost forever.

However there’s one thing you can do with karma gear – MYSTIC FORGE them!

Yawg.1294:

important to know that all upgrades you put in any gear bought with karma are lost forever.

Not entirely true, you can still use a transmutation stone to move an upgrade from your karma gear to another item!

You do know that you have access to more storage at the bank, yes?
You can access it from your crafting stations, or the charr standing in front of the bank in LA.

Also, if your inventory bags are full, you cannot salvage since the salvage items have no place to go …

I tend to save the can’t sell/can’t salvage items until I have 4 of them (4 blue or 4 green) and use them at the mystic forge.

Paradox.5498:

Yawg.1294:

important to know that all upgrades you put in any gear bought with karma are lost forever.

Not entirely true, you can still use a transmutation stone to move an upgrade from your karma gear to another item!

Yes, before you toss your expensive Sigil/Rune away! Transmute it into another item, then break it down. It saved me my Superior Fire Sigil in a Karma GS… granted it cost a fine Transmutation stone.

Since you can’t sell or salvage your karma purchased gear, you might consider saving them until you have enough to throw into the Mystic Forge. At least this way, you have the chance to get something you CAN salvage or sell… and maybe something great to actually use!

Ok, this is probably another really stupid noob question, but what’s the Mystic Forge? I already threw away the stuff I was carrying, but this would be good to know in the near future.

(And the problem was not the storage space, only that the storage space was being used for no longer useful items.)

The mystic forge is the fountain-like thing that stands between the bank and the Trading Post in Lion’s Arch. If you go to the Traders Forum Waypoint, you’ll be standing right next to it. There’s one for pvp stuff, too, in the heart of the mists.

When you approach the forge, you’ll see an option to “use” pop up. If you click it, four boxes will appear into which you can place the items you want to “forge”. At the same time, a window will appear showing you which items in your bags are eligible to be placed into the forge. You can read more about it in the wiki.

Yawg.1294:

However there’s one thing you can do with karma gear – MYSTIC FORGE them!

I completely forgot about that. As I level, I pick up some Karma gear to fill needed slots here and there. I end up destroying tons of gear along the way, and completely spaced using the Mystic Forge (probably cause I hate the concept of it in the first place).

But since the item is going to be destroyed anyways, might as well use the Mystic Forge for them. Thanks.