Guild Wars 2

Bought a “Sam” trinket to go on about my treasure hunter achievement. Salvaged it and obtained the salvage materials, but didn’t receive the unlock in the achievement tab.
Is pretty annoying cause the value of that item.
Submitted a support ticket at the moment of the problem with attached image, but i’m posting it here for good measure.
Hope that something can be done.

Make sure you reported the issue via the ‘Support’ link above/below and ‘Submit a Request’, rather than the in-game Bug Report feature which, as indicated on the Bug Report window, will garner no response.

Good luck.

Yeah, items that aren’t skins won’t unlock in Collections if you salvage them. Instead, you have to right click on them, and choose Unlock or Item Collection or something. If you contact support (using the link Inculpatus mentioned above; in-game Bug Reports won’t get responses), they may be able to send you a new Sam.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Yeah, items that aren’t skins won’t unlock in Collections if you salvage them. Instead, you have to right click on them, and choose Unlock or Item Collection or something. If you contact support (using the link Inculpatus mentioned above; in-game Bug Reports won’t get responses), they may be able to send you a new Sam.

My rule of thumb is now: right-click to add to wardrobe (or collection) before salvaging, forging, or whatever. It’s the only way to be sure, since the mechanics are consistently inconsistent:

• Armor & weapon outfits unlock to collections and the wardrobe by removing them from the economy: salvage, account-/soul-bind, or forge.
• Minis only unlock to wardrobe and collections by adding directly to wardrobe; they do not unlock on forging (and and cannot be salvaged or bound, unless bound-on-acquisition.)
• Trinkets aren’t in wardrobe. They only unlock to collections by adding them to the collection directly.

That third one is a “gotcha” for a lot of people. I hope ANet revisits it soon, to prevent more situations like the OP’s.