Guild Wars 2

So, everyone know’s in WvW you get badges of honor and then use those badges on stuff. Mostly armor sets for new toons and what not. We also know that you cant salvage this armor bought from badges + gold. I hope to see this changed. I didn’t understand why I couldn’t salvage them in the first place because you dont make good gold in WvW anyways and often times I have a excess of 1000’s of badges so this would make WvW more profitable but its not like you get badges super quickly so it wouldn’t be super amazing.

Anyway’s Runes if my main worry. Some runes I have are 8g+ each and i cant get them back (dont say use an extractor cause do the math and i can buy gold with gems to buy back the runes i lost for a fraction of price of extractors) and with all the changes to professions coming builds will change. My runes will most likely change with them aswell. Im wondering if it’s possible to have equipment bought with badges be able to be salvaged. I wouldnt care if it gave no mats back but just runes. Anyways feedback from dev would be nice.

This is a real problem, it basically makes putting runes in level 80 exotic BoH (and karma) armor uneconomical. Those of us who play WvW know that good WvW runes, e.g. travelers, cost several times as much as level 80 exotic armor from the BLTP. Before the wardrobe changes it was possible to transfer the runes while losing the armor, but now that is not possible. I agree with salvaging BoH and karma armor and only getting the runes back. The current situation makes my 12000+ BoHs useless for buying armor.

Another option would be to be able to buy account bound runes for badges as well, though that would have a strong impact on the TP prices for a lot of runes.

Indeed, part of the reason everyone has a huge stack of Badges of Honor are exactly because the armor and weapons can’t be salvaged so players are getting crafted armor instead.

Maybe Anet should add some sort of salvage/extractor kit that can be purchased with Badges that works only on WvW armor and only is for recovering the rune/sigil.

Chaba.5410:

Indeed, part of the reason everyone has a huge stack of Badges of Honor are exactly because the armor and weapons can’t be salvaged so players are getting crafted armor instead.

Maybe Anet should add some sort of salvage/extractor kit that can be purchased with Badges that works only on WvW armor and only is for recovering the rune/sigil.

This makes a Ton of sense. I have some of this armor and weapons in bank just hoping for something like this to eventually happen. Just want the rune or sigil – even if it remains account bound…….

Make them salvagable only to give the runes/sigils back which become account bound.

well im glad I’ve gotten alot of feedback and I honestly hope a Dev will see this thread. Im going to be posting in the HoT forums to try to attract a dev because this is honestly just a fix for them but its seriously punishing to WvW players. I hope they show us some love.
HoT thread link: please comment in it to keep it up higher on the list.

Link to new thread please comment to keep it up on the list for a dev to answer: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Dev-WvW-question-suggestion/first#post4728461