Guild Wars 2

While cleaning some character inventories I noticed that it won’t allow me to salvage Guild Weapons(the ones you buy with 3g+ guild commendations), I don’t remember trying to salvage them before so I don’t know if it always was like this, but since they don’t come with sigils it seems kinda weird(unlike karma armor that has runes and stuff).

Hope it’s a bug since I have like 2 of them with some semi expensive sigils lol.

It’s the same deal with any armor and weapons purchased from the WvW merchants (the ones that sell it for gold and badges of honor).

I imagine they’ve specifically designed it this way so that you can’t directly convert currencies like badges of honor or guild commendations into gold via salvaging (i.e. buying up items and salvaging for ectos).

With the old transmutation system is wasn’t as big an issue because you could transfer over sigils/runes while transmuting, but the new system doesn’t allow that anymore. This means any sigils/runes are stuck in these non-salvageable items, and only the upgrade extractor from the gem store can get them out. However, it’s generally better to just repurchase the sigil/rune since it’s generally cheaper than the upgrade extractor.

Unfortunately, the game does not tell you up front whether a particular item is salvageable or not, so it can “deceive” people who don’t know, making them deal with the hassle of replacing their runes and sigils after the fact.

Personally I feel like they should make such items salvageable, but they have their reasons not to. At the very least, there could be a “non-salvageable” tag on all non-salvageable items so that players were correctly informed before they irrecoverable runes and sigils into them.

I understand that they probably don’t want people converting other currencies into gold, but these weapons cost 3g AND guild commendations, they come with no sigils and with berserker stats so you can’t even get inscriptions from them.

You can’t make profit salvaging these weapons, the best you could probably get is 3 ectos + some dark matter and maybe t6 mats if you get really lucky, but even then you end up losing money. Just wan’t to know if this is a bug or intended, or if someone actually tried salvaging one of these before, because I got them months ago so maybe something changed with a recent patch.