Guild Wars 2

Prior to a recent patch whenever you would go to an armorsmith to purchase white quality armor it would scale to your current level and the next 5 levels above your level. Now it seems multiple armorsmiths in exploreable regions (Non city or WvW) have thier armor levels set at their local level region.

Is this change intended? How about characters who want to buy armor anywhere in the game?

Seems like its not as widespread as I thought. Only around 33% of all open world armorsmith merchants are affected by this issue.

Also it looks like its possible to obtain EVERY 5 level from 5 to 70. Only level 75 is missing out and requires a visit to a scaling merchant.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Armorsmith_

There is not a single formula for any of the merchants on what level gear they offer and never has been. Some offer the local content level, some offer player level and some offer ALL of it. Salvage kits from Merchants are the same way.

I don’t think this is a bug, but your misunderstanding of how gear level at a merchants has always been varied at different merchants.

I agree with BG. It’s always been this way. I know because I was confused for some time about why I could not buy low-level gathering tools in low-level maps from some merchants for a time.

Some merchants are map-level appropriate. Some are player-level appropriate. And some merchants offer all levels of, say, gathering tools.

To be fair to the OP, it would be better if there was some consistency in names used:

• Personal Armorsmith: offers gear appropriate to your level.
• Town Armorsmith: offers gear appropriate to the area.

Be also good if you could tell if such armor was or was not salvageable, especially if it can be sold on the TP.

Ok, at least one merchant scaled with level at least 6 months ago, but now doesn’t.

That was Finna in Halrunting Plains. I was checking if it was worth it to salvage whites for ori then discovered that the whites sold were not salvageable.

Its not possible to salvage any armor directly from a karma or money vendor.

Thanks for the labels, it helps to separate them so that we all know which npcs we are actually talking about.

I’m not interested in how the armorsmith vendors always have been, I’m interested in whether or not it is intended, and which ones are broken. For all we know the “Town Armorsmith” is how it should be and the “Personal Armorsmith” is completely bugged.