Guild Wars 2

Hello,

so here’s what I concluded:

It is not worth it to farm dungeon tokens for exotic gear. For first, it looks ok as you make money while you complete a dungeon and additionally you get tokens to buy gear. If you dont plan to have ascended gear this attitude is perfectly sound, however if you plan on upgrading for ascended, the picture changes.

Reasons:

- You cannot sell/salvage/pass it to an alt or anything. So you lose the rune/sigil that you’ve put in it.

- You get no T6/T7 mats either. (no essence of luck)

If you use cheap sigil/runes or orbs then it still may be worth it. But if you use scholar/divinity/traveler runes or other expensive sigils the loss will be much greater than the cost of buying exotic pieces off the TP. Not to mention that it takes next to no time if you have the money. If you dont you can still farm dungeons and spend tokens on rare gear and salvage ectos.

I dont know if this idea stands its ground or not, but kind of seems to me it does.

I hope I’ve helped some of you who is getting his/her exotics.

I’m pretty sure you can salvage dungeon equipment. Also if you want a rune back use a high level salvage kit (black lion is your best bet). I know you can salvage the weapons and I’m pretty sure I’ve salvaged armor before. You can’t salvage Karma armor though so be careful of that.

Essences of luck only come from fine or masterwork items so salvaging exotics won’t give you any.

You can’t salvage karma items BUT you can toss 4 of them into Mystic Toilet and get a piece you CAN salvage, or sell.

It might not be worth the effort, but it is a way to at least get something back if you have useless karma gear stuffing up your inventory.

AdaephonDelat.3890:

I’m pretty sure you can salvage dungeon equipment. Also if you want a rune back use a high level salvage kit (black lion is your best bet). I know you can salvage the weapons and I’m pretty sure I’ve salvaged armor before. You can’t salvage Karma armor though so be careful of that.

Essences of luck only come from fine or masterwork items so salvaging exotics won’t give you any.

Hi,

your second point is totally on spot, I forgot that.

But the first… Its not just a guess, but direct experience. I’m starting to gear my thief with ascended stuff, and as I’m changing exotic gear I can see that those items that I bought from the TP can be salvaged, while duongeon gear cant be. (Not the drops, but the ones you buy with tokens.)

zwierz.9012:

You can’t salvage karma items BUT you can toss 4 of them into Mystic Toilet and get a piece you CAN salvage, or sell.

It might not be worth the effort, but it is a way to at least get something back if you have useless karma gear stuffing up your inventory.

I didnt mean karma gear, but I should have lol. Dungeon gear can be salvaged, jst tried it.

I apologize for my ignorance. Pls admins delete this topic as it is misleading and useless. (Well never too late for enlightenment.)

Nimrud.5642:

AdaephonDelat.3890:

I’m pretty sure you can salvage dungeon equipment. Also if you want a rune back use a high level salvage kit (black lion is your best bet). I know you can salvage the weapons and I’m pretty sure I’ve salvaged armor before. You can’t salvage Karma armor though so be careful of that.

Essences of luck only come from fine or masterwork items so salvaging exotics won’t give you any.

Hi,

your second point is totally on spot, I forgot that.

But the first… Its not just a guess, but direct experience. I’m starting to gear my thief with ascended stuff, and as I’m changing exotic gear I can see that those items that I bought from the TP can be salvaged, while duongeon gear cant be. (Not the drops, but the ones you buy with tokens.)

Token gear can be salvaged too.

Once upon a time Ascended gear didn’t exist, and exotic was the highest tier. This is a leftover from that time.

I’m pretty sure most people who get dungeon armor are getting it mainly for the skins. either that or they’re running dungeons for gold and use the ‘spare’ tokens as a cheap way to get exotics.

Either way it’s not supposed to be a financial investment.

Just transmute it

Danikat.8537:

I’m pretty sure most people who get dungeon armor are getting it mainly for the skins. either that or they’re running dungeons for gold and use the ‘spare’ tokens as a cheap way to get exotics.

Either way it’s not supposed to be a financial investment.

That or it’s a cheap way to get the stats without crafting or buying from TP