Guild Wars 2

Is it intended for us to not be able to salvage/mystic forge exotic weapons/armor from the vendors in WvW? I’ve been looking and can’t seem to come up with any reason why this is the case. It would be nice to have the ability to recover a sigil from one of my weapons since i’ve changed my build but I can’t because it was bought from a WvW vendor

Yes it is intented. Dont think it will ever be changed.

A few patches ago they loaded all the playerbase with stockpiles of BoH from the achievement chest. Any half-decent PvE player will easily have gotten between 2000 and 3000 free badges without ever setting foot in WvW.

So to allow those exotics real value would basicly mean ANet handed everyone a dozen free exotics to salvage for Dark Matter or toss in the forge and see what happens and sell that.
That wouldnt jive well with the grind intent behind getting ascended gear.

But the only option you have is deleting it once you are done with it. Why not let us salvage or use in forge? Takes time to get badges just as much as it does getting laurels and gold… why can we not salvage and forge like all other gear?

They’re restrictive about converting one currency to another. Could be something about the in-game economy, could be their way of making sure you have to do another bit of content for that item you want and thus spend more time playing (this sounds like a lot of GW2), could be a combination of those, or however many other things.

So yeah, delete items you can’t use. Same thing I do with 99% of soulbound Living Story skins. I’m sure they’ll change that when all the planets in our system line up neatly in order from smallest to largest, but I doubt any of us will be playing GW2 then.

I think you can buy a transmutation stone from the gemstore, and transmute the item onto a salvageable item. Then extract the sigil.

Terrahero.9358:

Yes it is intented. Dont think it will ever be changed.

A few patches ago they loaded all the playerbase with stockpiles of BoH from the achievement chest. Any half-decent PvE player will easily have gotten between 2000 and 3000 free badges without ever setting foot in WvW.

So to allow those exotics real value would basicly mean ANet handed everyone a dozen free exotics to salvage for Dark Matter or toss in the forge and see what happens and sell that.
That wouldnt jive well with the grind intent behind getting ascended gear.

You could never salvage the items from wvw. My ele has a set of invader’s daggers from last year and they were never able to be salvaged. Has nothing to do with the free badges from achievement points.

Blix.8021:

Terrahero.9358:

Yes it is intented. Dont think it will ever be changed.

A few patches ago they loaded all the playerbase with stockpiles of BoH from the achievement chest. Any half-decent PvE player will easily have gotten between 2000 and 3000 free badges without ever setting foot in WvW.

So to allow those exotics real value would basicly mean ANet handed everyone a dozen free exotics to salvage for Dark Matter or toss in the forge and see what happens and sell that.
That wouldnt jive well with the grind intent behind getting ascended gear.

You could never salvage the items from wvw. My ele has a set of invader’s daggers from last year and they were never able to be salvaged. Has nothing to do with the free badges from achievement points.

Yes its intented and it wont be changed, because of badges. There. Hope that made it less confusing for you.

This is a joke. I don’t give a flying kitty about dark matter, I just want my 7g worth of sigils back. Why on earth would you give PVE’rs thousands of badges for completing content not remotely connected to WvW? Oh that’s right, PVE’rs are getting slain in the JP.

I feel you. This is ANET’s way of saying PvE are the king of this game. WvW players give PvE a buff but what does PvE do to WvW? They just inflate the prices so WvW players can’t buy decent things to be used in fighting for their server.

Terrahero.9358:

Yes it is intented. Dont think it will ever be changed.

A few patches ago they loaded all the playerbase with stockpiles of BoH from the achievement chest. Any half-decent PvE player will easily have gotten between 2000 and 3000 free badges without ever setting foot in WvW.

So to allow those exotics real value would basicly mean ANet handed everyone a dozen free exotics to salvage for Dark Matter or toss in the forge and see what happens and sell that.
That wouldnt jive well with the grind intent behind getting ascended gear.

This. This is why we never get good things for badges.

Last time I checked you could forge the soldier stat invaders gear/weapons, but not the non-soldier stat ones.

I don’t know if that’s been changed or not though.

IMO since it costs 1g plus badges for the WvW gear it should be allowed to be forged. More often than not you’ll walk away with a gold and badge loss.

Salvaging should be allowed as well because of the dual cost of these items. It’s not like I couldn’t just go buy an exotic off of the TP to salvage for around 1 gold anyways (a berzerker’s pearl shield is 1g11s at the time of this post).

Plus (the bigger deal) I can’t get my sigils/runes out of my WvW gear without using a transmute stone work around (transmute the sigil onto a blue then salvage) or a transmutation splitter (expensive as all kitten).

Yet I can go salvage a dungeon token exotic which would cost me absolutely no gold what so ever. How is this what so ever even or justified?

Thus… I really don’t see the problems that others are seeing with allowing us to forge/salvage these items.

In case someone from Anet read this post, I’ll add my name to it. I do understand why gear bought from badges and Karma aren’t salvagable crafting mats wise and I’m not complaining about that. What I would like for them is to be at least salvagable for the rune/sigil, some of them are really expensive and some updates change viablility of certain build so much that it require a total make over of gear, stats and traits. Plus some like me just like to experiment different builds for fun and and variation.
So a way to at least remove the rune/sigil from non salvagable items should be an option. I know you can use transmutation stones to do it but it cost real money and that is supposed to be for estetic purposes, not keeping an upgrade.
I hope this will be adressed soon.

Back to the front, i’d like to get a real official answer on this if possible since its an issue for quite a bit of people.

A simple “this item cannot be forged or salvageable” would have done the trick. This is more of an issue with hidden mechanics and poor communication rather than a big thing with the economy.

My gripe is not knowing what/how something works. This is equivalent to the whole Karma bonus issue when they made that change. It made a lot of people unhappy. This is the same scenario.

I threw a wvw sword into the forge with some other stuff about a month ago. If they changed it I’ll be annoyed because that was the plan for when I replace my armor with ascended too.

Yeah… I bought a full set for my thief on my warrior(first time I was buying a www gear, didn’t know). Now I’m stuck with 6 pieces of exotics that I can’t transfer to my thief, can’t use, can’t salvage and can’t throw to the mystic forge.
Awesome!