Guild Wars 2

I just came back to the game after a small hiatus and when I try to salvage items with my Copper-fed salvage-o-matic I get an error: “This content is temporarily disabled. Please try again later.” I read the patch notes and 2 pages in this forum and couldn’t find anything about this issue, so I guess this is only happening to me? Or does anyone else have the same problem?

I just had this issue with tryingto salvage some armour on my Charr charecter

I’m not having any trouble using the item. While you wait for an answer here, create a support ticket (following the link at the upper left), so that (a) you get a response from ANet and (b) they are aware that there’s an issue for some people.

In the meantime, try the following:

• Move the kit from wherever it is now into the bank and then to a different character and try it.
• If that doesn’t work, “repair” the game’s .DAT file, instructions on the wiki — you’ll want to allow 10-40 minutes for that (depends mostly on your hard drive). That generic adjustment tends to fix a lot of odd issues that impact just a few people.

Good luck and please let us know what (if anything) ends to work for you.

Were you trying to salvage the armor you get off a newly made character? I just noticed that I could salvage normal items but got the error the OP mentioned when I tried to salvage away the three pieces of basic armor a newly created character was given.

This may be a new change in the works. Perhaps bots (hopefully not players!) have gotten so desperate they’re creating characters just to salvage the baby armor then rinse/repeat ad infinitum.

Kruhljak.2705:

Were you trying to salvage the armor you get off a newly made character?

That might be it. But then, why not simply make it unsalvageable, like the personal story rewards and karma gear?

Gudy.3607:

Kruhljak.2705:

Were you trying to salvage the armor you get off a newly made character?

That might be it. But then, why not simply make it unsalvageable, like the personal story rewards and karma gear?

Apparently there was some issue of people mass-creating>salvaging for leather and cloth that was brought up on Reddit and support initially told a player that it was an exploit.

It got the attention of some Devs over there. They likely disabled salvaging of the starter armor before the weekend until they determined whether it was an exploit or not.

They later said they did not consider it an exploit, but they’ve still not re-enabled salvaging of those items yet.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

There’s been a couple of Reddit threads discussing whether repeatedly creating a medium armor char in order to salvage the armor, delete and repeat, was an exploit. The OP made a support ticket and got a response saying it was an exploit, and posted that response.

Latest reddit thread

Dev responses

GMGus

Update from GMGus (me, saying it right now): I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that we’re not going to block anyone for this (honestly not even totally sure whether this is intended functionality or not). Blocking people for this would be really silly, one might even call it frivolous. We made the game this way, and if we don’t like how it works, we’ll change it, not block legitimate players. That said, I can think of a number of other much better (both quicker and more fun) ways to make money in Gw2 than clicking through the character select screen…

ANetCSLead

Confirmed. We’ll not be taking any action on this and the devs are looking into whether a change needs to be made.

Sorry for the heart-attacks!

I don’t think it requires a patch to get re-enabled, so it’s likely that it is still disabled due to it having been the weekend and many/all who would have power to re-enable it were out of the office, or because they’re still looking at it to see if a change needs to be made to it.

So it’ll likely get re-enabled today at some point when they get back into the office if they’ve determined that no change needs to be made to it. If they do feel a change needs to be made, who knows if/when salvaging starter armor will be re-enabled.

Gudy.3607:

Kruhljak.2705:

Were you trying to salvage the armor you get off a newly made character?

That might be it. But then, why not simply make it unsalvageable, like the personal story rewards and karma gear?

Personally I think it would be better that it produced no materials rather than it not be salvageable.

For that matter I would prefer the same for the Karma stuff too, if need be making the runes account bound on acquire.