Example:
Prior to this update I bought two staffs on my guardian. Put a sup. sigil of stamina on one of them and a sup. sigil of bloodlust on the other(stacking weapon). Both have knight stats. With the new update stacking weapons are useless and I don’t need two staffs anymore. So I tried to salvage one of them with a Black Lion Kit… and just remebered again that you can’t salvage the weapons/armor you buy for badges + gold. So now I’m stuck with 2 staffs and I only need one of them but I can’t remove the sigil from the other one. And I got the same porblem on at least 1-2 other characters. One solution would be to buy upgrade extractors but that would be quite costly(250gems per extractor) and Í actually don’t WANT to keep the staff I would use it on so I would just like to use my black lion kit to only get the sigil back. Another solution would be to buy another sigil but that would still leave me with one useless staff with only one sigil.
I write this here because I think this effects esp. us wvw-players as we’re most likely the main customers of this merchant and are more likely to encounter this problem. Is there any other solution than
a) buying a costly upgrade extractor or
b) buying one of the sigils again but leaving me with a useless staff with a good sigil in it?(not that big of a deal with a stamina sigil but on my other character it would be either a useless staff with bloodlust or with sigil of fire and both aren’t that cheap)
a) 250 gems which is 26 gold as of right now
b. 6 gold bloodlust or 10 silver for sigil of stamina…
you can put two sigils in a two handed weapon now … if its about aesthetics you should just transmute the other staff with the crappy version (but same skin) from the trading post … I think it costs 50s?
As I said it wouldn’t be a big problem between stamina and bloodlust… but on my other character it would be the decision between a sigil of fire and a sigil of bloodlust. So let’s say I buy a now sigil of fire because it’s cheaper than buying a new bloodlust and put in on the staff with the bloodlust sigil. Actually because it was the stacking weapon it just had a boring skin because after having full stacks I would just switch to the normal staff with the fire sigil. So I would have to waste a transmutation and a new sigil on a staff while already having the desired sigil and the staffskin on another staff. And even when I do it: After that I still would have a staff with a sigil that is worth ~3 gold and all I can do with it is trash it… It’s really not a smooth solution.
It would be way easier to just use the black lion kit(and it is intended for this stuff) to destroy the (bad looking) stacking staff while getting my bloodlust sigil back and putting it on my normal staff(with the good skin) that already has a fire sigil.
eh I’d understand if you were losing copious amounts of gold but 3~ isn’t a big deal by any standards and if it honestly is an issue I can easily send you that via in game mail
I don’t habe a problem with buying stuff I need for gold and I have no problem throwing away stuff that I don’t need anymore. But I really don’t want to throw away a sigil that I have to buy again at the same time. With the old transmutation system I could’ve switched the sigil over to a withe or blue weapon I can salvage. I just really don’t like the idea of having to throw away stuff that I actually still want to use just because I can’t get it off my weapon unless I would pay an even higher amount of gold for an upgrade extractor. I think it’s just not a good and smooth solution.
I have a similar problem. I just noticed that I only had a Rare Staff instead of a Exotic One. No problem I will just salvage the other to recover my Sigil. But I can’t since this this is WvW weapon. The Sigil in question I found and is the Sigil of Generosity (The most expensive one at 49Gold). This is lot of gold to throw away (That I don’t have). We really need to be able to salvage these weapons.
Well it was a bug when you use it with a stacking sigil. But what about having 2 weapons with 2 different sigils? For example let’s say someone had one greatsword with a fire sigil(~3-4g) and one with a sigil of energy(~6-7g) for different situations now you could use both sigils on one greatsword but actually you would now have to first trash one of them just to buy it again to put it on the other weapon just because you can’t salvage the weapon.
I have the same problem, especially with 2 handed weapons.
I have old trinkets with expensive upgrades that I can’t do anything with because now I have ascended trinkets and weapons that are useless because I can’t get the sigils off weapons to combine.
The item can still get destroyed, and give no materials, but the upgrade should be accessible.
Yes, this is basically all I would want. I guess you can’t salvage the items because it would allow to transfrom badges+gold into ectos(though actually the conversion rate would be bad if I remember the prices correctly) or easy dark matter for ascended stuff which they maybe don’t want(at least that’s the reason why we can’t salvage stuff we bought for karma iirc). But all I need is the sigil.
We normally have the black lion kit to destroy things while keeping the upgrade and we have the upgrade extractor to keep the weapon and the upgrade. But I think it’s bad to only be able to use an upgrade extractor although we only want to keep your upgrade and not the weapon.
I have two wasted traveler runes after crafting some ascended armor. Can’t remove them from my Exotics because they were from WvW. GG another 18 gold down the drain thanks Anet.
They need to lower the amount of gems the extractor costs. Lets see, 9g=100 gems then you would need 22.5g to get 250 gems. Is there any upgrade out there besides agony resistance that costs more than 22.5gold? Same goes if you buy gems, you can get more gold by converting those 250gems into gold, buy the upgrade off the tradepost and still have some leftover money.
