Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I have been leveling up through crafting and this has gone wonderfully well, but I have run into a small inventory problem. I am a leatherworker and I have crafted some high level backpacks, but I can’t sell them anywhere. Neither the vendors nor the Black Lion Trading Company will buy them from me. In fact, when I open the BLTC screen (either from a random place or from a trading post) it says I have no items that I can sell.

Can anyone tell me if there if and how I can sell these backpacks so that I may continue crafting with a clear inventory? Please do not try to answer this question by suggesting that I buy more bank storage or bigger inventory, I really just want to know if and how I can sell these self crafted items.

Thank you in advance.

The crafted backpacks are account bound, meaning you can’t sell them. If I remember correctly they were introduced to address the severe lack of low and mid level back items otherwise available. They’re not intended to be things you make huge numbers of copies of to level crafting.

Although nothing in GW2 is designed that way, since most crafting experience comes from Discovery rather than making repeats of known recipes.

Are we talking about these backpacks which are, unfortunately, account bound and do not have a value assigned?

You cannot put items that are soulbound or account-bound onto the trading post. All crafted backpacks are account-bound.

If the item does not have a vendor value, the merchant won’t take it either.

Either equip the backpacks on your characters, find space for them, or throw them away.

Thank you very much for your timely answers, all three of you. You answered my question splendidly, although it wasn’t quite the answer I was hoping for. The backpacks have to be thrown away, it seems.

Can you salvage them? I find that in leveling crafting it’s nice to recycle the things I make that I don’t want to use so I can eke out the mats a bit longer.

Sadly, no, you can’t salvage them. And you can’t forge them. What I did with mine (I made them all just to unlock all the skins) was put a couple in the bank to save for alts. That way my alts have an exotic back item with stats of my choosing when they hit level 78.

Donari.5237:

Can you salvage them? I find that in leveling crafting it’s nice to recycle the things I make that I don’t want to use so I can eke out the mats a bit longer.

You can’t salvage these ones either. I’m not sure why.

I got a bit over-enthusiastic when they first came out and made the full set and now I have about 4 or 5 sitting in my bank waiting for alts to level up enough to use them. In addition to the ones I’m already using.