Guild Wars 2

I have an old WvW exotic light chest piece out of which I would like to salvage the rune.

On another post regarding invader’s weapons and karma armor it was mentioned that a possible solution is to use a transmutation stone and a blue weapon in the mystic forge, but I believe that does not apply anymore.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Why-we-can-t-salvage-Invader-weapons/first#post3608834

Another article mentions the use of an upgrade extractor (200 to 250 gems), but the price of the extractor seems rather unreasonable for a rune. I believe it makes more sense to use a extractor for agony infusions of level +10 and above.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/25clxa/level_80_karmawvworder_armor_not_salvagable/

Is there any particular technique I can use to extract runes from WvW armor pieces ?

Thanks for your time and help.

No, there isn’t any way to extract any runes/sigils from non-salvageable items except for using an upgrade extractor.

The best solution to this is to allow APPLIED runes/sigils on WvW/Karma equipment to be salvaged regularly. No crafting materials would be produced, and neither the equipment nor salvage products can be put into the mystic forge. These runes/sigils that have been applied and salvaged would be account bound.

The runes that come with Karma armor should not be able to be salvaged, but runes that have overwritten the existing rune should be able to be salvaged.

It might be hard to program this change, though, as an individual rune/sigil would have to be tracked as “account bound only”. Meaning, no matter how many times you apply and salvage this rune, it should always be account bound.

this matter has been ignored to death by ANet since the beginning. their worry is that by allowing us to salvage WvW armor, it would disrupt the economy, not sure how, but they forgot that WvW also cost gold to buy…

azizul.8469:

this matter has been ignored to death by ANet since the beginning. their worry is that by allowing us to salvage WvW armor, it would disrupt the economy, not sure how, but they forgot that WvW also cost gold to buy…

If they’re really worried about the economic impact, just make it so that it salvages to nothing except upgrade items like runes. Too much effort for Anet to bother, I guess.

Thanks all for your replies.

azizul.8469:

their worry is that by allowing us to salvage WvW armor, it would disrupt the economy, not sure how

wvw>armor/weaps cost gold what means that there is less gold in game when somebody buy it.

pve>ac>2g *3 per account per day +some tokens (enough for exo part). But its not normal 2g. its NEW gold that increase total amout of coins in whole game. weaps/armor cost ONLY tokens, can be salvaged for mats/runes

and… srsly you can buy more exo after 1day in pve than after 1day in wvw and i dont even count that pve have better drop rate

THAT is what is disrupting the economy
making wvw gear not salvageable is just one of many anet’s ways to say “if you’re not pve you’re kitten”

It’s really quite stupid, some runes are repulsively priced and we should be able to remove them with spending gems.

Or, you could allow players to purchase Runes with Badges of Honor then just make them account bound once purchased so players can’t resell if that’s your worry.

Personally I just wish they made a own rune slot, similar to the pvp system, so we could swap them out without having to stick them to armors and all that.

gold sink be kittened, it is just plain annoying to manage multiple armors with multiple runes and stuff.

Note: I’m one of those that wouldn’t mind at all to use PVP’s system for the rest of the game. I know others doesn’t like it because of lack of mixing multiple armor pieces for stats, foods etc. But I just wouldn’t mind that to get rid of all the inconveniences around managing all those runes, sigils, different armor sets, and trinkets, and weapons stowed around in inventory and bank.