Guild Wars 2

Hello all. I am curious about salvaging exotic equipment, particularly this: If I salvage a weapon with, say, a Knight’s Orichalcum Imbued Inscription on it, and I salvage it using a Black Lion Salvage Kit, will I get that inscription off the weapon?

I searched through the wiki, but I wasn’t convinced yay or nay.

Thanks,

Shane

Short answer: no, not in the specific example.

Inscriptions aren’t ‘upgrades’, which are guaranteed to drop using a BLSK (and only probably to drop using a mystic kit).

Inscriptions & insignias are crafting components. And there are two conditions:

• They drop randomly — I think there’s an 80% chance using BLSK.
• Craftable never drop; only the ones that can’t be crafted do. So Knight’s Inscriptions won’t drop, but Magi’s ones will.

I didn’t see the information on the wiki either, not at Salvage Kits or Salvage. The inscriptions article and the insignia article mention the restriction, but without specifying which are affected.
(In addition, Insignia phrases it as if it’s only discoverable recipes that don’t drop, whereas I’m pretty sure that the only ones that drop don’t have any recipe, purchasable nor discoverable.

^I’m confused (must be old age). What’s the difference between “non-craftable” and “can’t be crafted”?

Sorry, I’m not much into builds and such.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

^I’m confused (must be old age). What’s the difference between “non-craftable” and “can’t be crafted”?

Sorry, I’m not much into builds and such.

Oops. Change my mind about the order of presentation, but forgot to change one of the negations. Fixed.
(Thanks for pointing it out.)

Thanks. I was trying to save a little money, but it will not work.