Guild Wars 2

Not really a bug but I can’t seem to post this anywhere else

kitten me, really

Bought Melandru gear at temple with the idea of salvaging it for the runes but jk, not salvageable.

Can you at least put a freaking “not salvageable” on these items, please? Just so kittens like me don’t go wasting 240k karma on utterly useless armor with random stats that are not even good to recycle (because you can’t recycle them, lol)?

Either that, or make them salvageable. It’d be 42k karma per rune which seems overpriced anyways, but at least I could make some use out of them.

Thanks for your attention, in the hope you’ll stop trolling your players with this kitten. But I’m sure this will sink together with the other billions complaints because no one really gives a flying bird.

You could use Fine Transmutation stones to move the upgrades.
Of course that will destroy the karma armor.

Or use Upgrade Extractors from gemstore.
…then again those are 250 gems each.

It’s pretty unfortunate nothing warns about that.
Karma items used to be salvageable but were changed a long time ago to prevent Karma converting to materials so efficiently.

Have you never bought any weapons or armor with karma prior to trying this? As combative as that sentence may seem in response to you, I actually am surprised if that’s the case. I learned that karma gear didn’t salvage almost immediately in a starting area. It sucks that you’ve learned that on end-game exotics.

They removed salvaging from karma very quickly after release, as LastDay noted.

LastDay.3524:

You could use Fine Transmutation stones to move the upgrades.
Of course that will destroy the karma armor.

Or use Upgrade Extractors from gemstore.
…then again those are 250 gems each.

It’s pretty unfortunate nothing warns about that.
Karma items used to be salvageable but were changed a long time ago to prevent Karma converting to materials so efficiently.

250 gems each that, with the current gold-to-gems ratio would be way more than what I would spend on melandru runes themselves. It would defeat the whole purpose of saving up on gold and spend karma for those.

I ended up throwing them in the MF for a total gain of 98s. A good deal (jkjkjkjkjk)

Yeah, the same happens with cultural gears. I have bought a cultural weapon and then I wanted to replace it with an exotic that has exactly the same appearance, so the cultural one would become useless. Then I went and tried to salvage the cultural one and meh.. not salvageable. I didn’t feel really destroying it for good as it felt it was going to be a waste. I wouldn’t lose much as I had a better exotic to use in its place but simply trashing it would be a waste. The solution was to use it on Mystic Forge with other 2 yellows and a Mystic Stone.. Luckily the result was an exotic

But yeah, I understand why they aren’t salvageable but putting it on the description would be really nice and wouldn’t lead players to error.

P.S.: for those curious, the cultural was an Warden Trident and the exotic I was going to use in its place was a Venon, exactly the same skin.