A QUICK & EASY Guide to Unidentified Gear in Guild Wars 2
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- One of the most common questions asked in Guild Wars 2 is what to do with unidentified gear and what salvage kits are best for different types of gear. Knowing how to salvage gear correctly is very important for gold-making in Guild Wars 2. This video will provide you with a simple and concrete guide to salvaging different types of gear, so you can get a good yield from your gear without going through an extremely complicated process. After using this system for a little bit, you’ll have it memorized and it will become second nature.
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Unidentified Gear Salvaging Guide
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VIDEO CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
0:21 Always Open First
0:42 Common (Blue) Gear & Salvage Items
1:10 Masterwork (Green) Gear
2:04 Rare (Yellow) Gear
2:49 Exotic (Orange) Gear
3:54 Conclusion
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Very good. No pointless yapping, no bullshit.
To the point.
I'm happy you mention that selling masterwork gear to vendors is an option. People have bashed me in the past for mentioning that. And while it does take extra effort, given you ought to identify gear before you sell it and that is inventory intensive, it's generally the best economic outcome. With the current tier 5 prices, I think it's more profitable to vendor masterwork gear and then buy materials off the trading post, but most people are just too lazy to do it. (With that said you also do occasionally get tier 6 materials and charms from salvaging).
But I think new players who may be searching for this video, may be obliged to go through the extra work for the best economic outcome.
Hey Abree, I recently came back to GW2 and first thing I did was to get some help with my bags since I no longer remembered how to sort the good from bad. The player who taught me actually showed me this exact method so I just want to thank you for making it so clear and easy to watch. Subscribed and please continue to put up content like this. Even if it already exists, I like your style. :) Peace!
Excellent video. Took me a lot to understand this as a new player, wish I had a video like this.
Really appreciate the gold guides. It helps a lot. Been working on things like this. Very high quality thank you for the effort, means a lot to people like me looking to have large amounts of gold to help enjoy parts of the game.
Best video of the decade. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Thanks as always for the great video, Abree! I’d love to see an example of the more complex methods you mentioned in the future, if possible :)
Thanks for the helpful guide! I just realized I've been using the wrong salvaging kits this whole time :D
Like the channel, good quality, quick.
Thanks a ton for this guide! I always used the copper-fed salvage kit on my green gear and had no idea about the runecrafter's kit. Now that you've opened my eyes to that, I'll be sure to invest my next gem purchase into getting one. I've also been wasting my BL salvage kits on those exotics too. Thanks for those tips on how to properly make bank on them!
Great video as always. :)
Just started playing, I was proud of my 15 Gold. Then I saw how much you have :')
Everyone starts with 0. Give it time and it will come.
great video, to the point!
Just one addition, you can get green amulets and rings which arent worse to use the runecrafter kit on em. For rare (yellow) gear its the same and with elonian gear too, it doesnt have runes so i using on amulets rings and elonian the mystic kit and on anything else the runecrafter.
Its me or u has 150k gold ?? Its insane !!?
Thank you. I miss your videos.
TY!
I've been doing it all wrong haha! Thank you for the video :)
I follow this with one key difference. I use my mystic forgestones and cheap exotic weapons to try to get the Mystic Infusion and random precursors, after 40 or so I got the precursor for an underwater weapon ~15g. I already have good gold inflow from fractal cms, tier 4's and recs as well as alts though so the loss in gold of 30-40 s/ exotic weapon doesn't hurt much at all.
You got very lucky then, in general this is absolutely unreliable, you can burn hundreds of exotics and not see any worthwhile return, or even still have a net loss even when you finally get an expensive drop. If you want to do that, keep that in mind.
best guide
TY
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why do you salvage the blues? from my experience the mats sell for less compared to selling the item at a vendor.
you can also buy the salvage kits with karma if you have plenty
Black Lions salvage kit for exotic if you're needing dark matter for ascended gear, (this is the only way to get DM for crafting ascended), if you're hurting for gold then, yes, list on the trading post.
First of all, thanks for answering comments too. Your insight on this has been super helpful.
On to my question.
The advice I was given was “if you can only buy one, buy runic” as far as spending on gems. Then just using Runic for rares. Is this accurate? Is using Runic on rares considerably worse than a Silver-fed if I don’t have one? I still receive exit and even receive multiple sometimes. Does the 5% difference apply to the ectoplasm or just the chance to get a better ingredient (getting an orichalcum instead of mythril)? I tried to find out but couldn’t.
If by runic you mean runecrafter's, then no you shouldn't be using that on rares. That's pretty much just going to delete potential gold.
Runecrafter's has a 20% higher chance to salvage the runes and sigils inside gear, so you will get slightly more charms and symbols, but it's worse for everything else. The loss of the 5% chance to get rarer materials applies to T5/6 materials, decreasing your chances to receive orichalcum instead of mithril as you said. That's not the biggest deal in and of itself. The problem is that ecto drops seem to follow their own calculation that isn't tied to that number. At least, if it is I can't figure it out from the data I've looked at. When you salvage rares with silverfed, you have a decent chance to get 0 or 1 ecto, with a small chance to get 2 or 3. I can't tell you offhand how much each number's likelihood changes when you use a runecrafter's kit, but I can tell you there's a decent decrease from the 0.85 ecto average you'd get with silver-fed. Because ectos contain the majority of the value from rares, it's better to pay the extra 30c and forego a small number of T6 drops for a decent increase to ecto drop rates. The extra ectos will definitely give you more in value than the 35c or so you give up for using the silver-fed kit.
Now I do agree with the advice to prioritize buying runecrafter's over the others, because, as you can see in the diagram in the video, there's equivalents for the other kits and not for runecrafter's. Copperfed is the same as basic kits, and although it's a pain in the ass if you farm a lot, you can buy 10 of those every time you need to salvage blues. Mystic salvage kits last quite a while and for a lot of players will make getting silver-fed unnecessary. If you farm a lot or have run out of Mystic Forge stones, you can still buy master's salvage kits you use instead of silver-fed if you want. You don't get as many rares anyway, so 1-2 master's salvage kits would be all you'd need to carry. Runecrafter's adds a new capability to your account; copper-fed and silver-fed add convenience.
My recommended order would be
Runecrafter's>Copper-Fed>>>Silver-Fed
(Unless you have a ton of Mystic Forge stones, then forget silver-fed altogether)
Hi! If I dont craft anything that uses the materials obtained after salvaging greens and blue (Like only crafting gen 3 leggys) do i refine the mats and sell them or just sell the unidentified gear? Nice video btw!!
That will depend on the prices and how youre selling it, but if you're talking about just selling stuff on the TP, blues and rares should always be worth salvaging. Greens are a little bit more inconsistent, so I guess you could list them. If you ever need charms and symbols for crafting though, it's worth salvaging for them generally.
Hi Abree! ty for this guid! once u get all the mats from scrapping wich is the best way to swap those mats to gold?
Crafting items with them to either use yourself (best option) or to sell on the trading post (second option) is what you'd want to do if you could. At least refine them before selling on the trading post if you can't come up with something to craft out of them. Good specific options that come to mind are lumps of mithrillium which can be crafted into deldrimor steel ingots for profit and drizzlewood coast material donations, which use the unrefined materials you get from gear. It's included in my daily gold video.
@@abree107 ty so much! i'll watch the video and try ;)
I was wondering if you were planning on doing a video on fractal farms for new and old players?
I'd like to eventually do a video on fractal farms, but that's been put on hold because the people I was going to record with have not been playing in quite some time. It's something I'll revisit whenever it becomes more easily feasible.
@@abree107 awesome! and dont hold back on asmr content while youre waiting ;)
I started just the game and have the copper/runecrafter/silver kits. Does this rule also count for low level items and what is with green weapons and no sigil in it do i use also the runecrafter kit?
Anything under level 68 gets copperfed salvage. You can vendor the greens or use copperfed.
Is there a way to stop the warning that disrupts the 'salvage all rares' operation?
Those should only pop up if you salvage rares individually as far as I am aware.
IMO it depends. If your goal is to make only gold then you can salvage those rare or exotic gear by selling those t6 materials on the trading post but if you are focusing on making legendary weapons, tier 6 materials are really expensive and you need 250 each of those. What I do is sell the green and blue straight and occasionally open rare one to salvage then rest I sell.
Currently, greens are wildly worth salvaging on their own because of the price of symbols and charms. Prices fluctuate, but it you want the most it's almost always worth opening and salvaging stuff yourself
Great video, thanks :)
I'm still such a noob in this game. Never knew you should use different salvage kits, I've used the copper fed almost every time I've salvaged anything. I've also sold every single rare item too, which average at around 15s on my server.
Btw, at least on my server, instant-sell or "right side" doesn't mean much, since the difference in price is usually extremely low.
EU and NA share a trading post so unless you're in China it's all the same.
@@abree107 Thanks for the info, wasn't aware of that :)
hey, Is It still still worth my time salvaging green unids without rune crafter? and do you list all of your mats?
In all honesty, usually it's not.
I rarely list materials. In most cases it's better to craft with them. It ends up being cheaper when you source your own materials, which translates to more profit when you sell the product.
What is the most profitable thing to do with Unidentified Dye? Great guide btw
There really isn't much. You can use them to make Bifrost. For most players, it's probably easiest to just sell them.
Watched similar guides before but this one is very clear and includes exotic gear, great stuff.
Is there a good breakpoint for cash values for salvage vs sell? I know it'll vary based on material market prices, but I've been going with:
Blue: always salvage copperfed
Green: always salvage silverfed
Yellow: salvage mystic if >24s, if >24s sell on TP
Orange: salvage mystic if >50s, if >50s sell on TP
I always check blues and greens on TP before I salvage because I've seen some have crazy prices on the TP before but it usually feels like a waste of time, at most I'll see like a 4s green.
Also do you have recommendations for ascended gear?
First off, never use silverfed for greens, you'll just be deleting gold at that point.
For rares, the price of the ecto is what matters, not a particular silver value. The rule that most people use is if the piece of gear is worth significantly more than 1 ecto, then list it. Nowadays, that basically boils down to just listing greatswords and salvaging everything else.
For exotics, the value of the rune/sigil is what's important, not a particular silver value. For example, an exotic that costs 60s is worth salvaging if the rune inside is worth 65s. Another exotic that costs 40s would not be worth salvaging if the rune inside is worth 3s. When you use a black lion kit, you basically want to add the value of an ecto and the rune/sigil together to determine what's worth salvaging. Or just salvage armor with black lion kits and list weapons and you'll generally do okay.
If the ascended gear comes from chests and is in the form of a craftable ascended item (i.e. anything called "zojja's" is a craftable zerker item), then disassembling them for research notes is a really cheap way to get research notes if you need them for a legendary. If you don't need research notes, then I'd say just hold onto your ascended salvage kits for rings. It's kind of weird but salvaging most ascended gear doesn't really give any more value than the 1g you'd get for vendoring it. So it's research notes or just throw it on an alt for gearing in the future.
@@abree107 Oop, I'd meant to reply to this when you responded, was looking for videos on gold farming from unidentified gear (buying gear on TP and processing for gold) and came across this again so I'll respond now. First just wanted to say thanks for the detailed response. Silverfed was a mistake, I meant runecrafter's. That rare sell price was actually based on relative ecto value I had just forgotten that's why I'd settled on that number. Exotic advice was new to me and really helpful :) thanks again for all the great guides.
I'm sure you have more ideas than time but if you are looking for ideas, here are some methods of gold making that I'd be interested to see you cover in the future (I've done some data collection myself but am very novice at it and not an Excel wizard):
- Gear processing on the TP (I think you mentioned this before as a great gold making tool but everyone guards their secrets and data so maybe you don't wanna share the secret sauce, which is fine haha)
- Crafting (this is what I'm most interested in as it's a more 'RP friendly' gold making process as compared to flipping things on the TP that just feels like taking advantage of people
- Rewards tracks in PvP and WvW. The PvP is more interesting to me because it's the game mode I play most besides open world, but I know WvW is more popular.
- Box/bag opening characters (ideal level, how magic find affects or doesn't affect things, etc.)
Anyway, mostly just wanted to say thank you :)
@@battlebots1 Regrettably, I'll have to decline most of those.
I don't really support people that process gear on that level. It's not a very healthy thing integrity wise and it's more carpal tunnel inducing than 3-ticking in runescape. I much more support methods that can be fun or at least fit into fun ways of playing the game. I know multiple people that have lost interest in the game as a direct result of getting into gear processing and I just can't bring myself to do anything more than acknowledge it exists.
I'm not sure what you mean by "RP friendly". If anything, buying an item instead of crafting it yourself results in you overpaying way more often than instabuying a random uncraftable item does. And flipping actually decreases margins and volatility in prices, due to competition. Even that said, if someone wants to instabuy something instead of buy order, that's really their problem and not yours. In the real world, express shipping costs more, there's fees to transfer money electronically if you want to get it faster than your standard ACH transfer, and people who don't price compare multiple retailers end up paying more for the same item than people that do. Impatience costs you, and it actually tends to cost you more if the item was craftable than if it wasn't. But I might end up dedicating a short video to crafting in the future...
Reward tracks are pretty easy. Do all the nonrepeatable ones first and then you can reference a site like [fast] farming to see the values of the repeatable ones. I'd typically say gift of Battle is best for repeating in WvW, but for PvP I have no idea. They're not good ways to make gold, but they're not bad either. There's not much to say. Slap on festival and xp booster if you want to, then play the game.
And finally, the bag opening thing really only applies to a handful of bags. Unless you're farming silverwastes, I'd say it's not worth worrying about. The vast majority of bags give level 80 loot no matter what character you open them on. And the only bags affected by magic find are ones that have it explicitly stated in the text when you hover over it.
That's not to say the rest of those topics are pointless, there's just not enough substance for me to make a video about them that's actionable. They might end up being little parts of future videos or maybe they'll be covered if I end up doing more discussion-themed videos like Teapot does.
@@abree107 Well thank you again for the detailed response. Appreciate all the info.
Fair enough on the gear processing. I think I was mostly interested in it since I started hitting a point in the game where unlocks required gold, you'd mentioned it was one of the best gold acquisition methods, and to me the "labor" of processing items felt more authentic than the "labor" of providing convenience through flipping on the TP. The "RP friendly" thing you're right about, that's just a me problem. Just felt like I was playing stock market and didn't vibe, but either way I'm certainly not judging anyone who does flip. End of the day I'm still just trying to figure out the ways that are most fun for me to make gold while still being relatively - or maybe just loosely - efficient. Thanks again!
Silverfed and Mystic have the same effective rate. So why the different usage?
Hi i need ask this question bcs i dont understand. I have runecrafter and copper fed salvage kits. But why we use more expensive runecrafter for green and less expensive copperfed for blue?
Green gear has runes and sigils in it, which the runecrafter gives a much better chance of giving you materials from. You'll get very few charms and symbols from using a copperfed kit on greens. Blues don't have runes and sigils so you might as well go with the cheapest option.
@@abree107 Thank you
Holy shi this guy has 150k gold. His guides must be on point
I sell my first 250 rare unindentified gear on black lion trade for 30G.
Is it worth? Or it can make more profit for other way?
If you right-click a stack and identify them all, what happens if your inventory fills before the identifying is done? Similarly if you start salvaging without any inventory space, do you risk losing some of the returns on your first few salvages since they might have nowhere to go?
It does the same thing as when you get too much loot, you need to delete/deposit etc. stuff before you can keep opening or salvaging. If you have a small inventory, you can hit [esc] to close your inventory and that will cancel opening or salvaging. Then you can reopen your inventory and swap to doing the other one.
@@abree107 Thanks. I was never bold enough to test it. XD
How i do it is empty my inventory and put all unid items in bank. Then based on my inventory space, i drag (hold Alt key) and put the same number of inventory space -5 or so. This way works best for me.
You can close the inventory to interrupt the opening of boxes too.
what if the exotic weapons or armor can't be listed on TP?
That only leaves salvaging. Many of the untradable ones will readily drop insignias and inscriptions as well, which add a little value.
I have a question please
When u salvage items what do u do with the materials ?
I find profitable crafting recipes and make those to further propagate the profit.
@@abree107 i see thank u
I don’t understand why you wouldn’t use the rune crafter salvage kit on yellow items. Don’t you want the better chance for those sigils more than greens? Am I missing something?
You'd lose out on a lot of ectos. You want to always use silverfed because the ectos are the most valuable part.
sir,
izzit worth to just sell the Piece of Unidentified Gear on tp without salvage it?
If you're in the position where you don't have a runecrafter kit, it can be for greens. That'll depend on TP prices and what you're doing with the materials. For blues and yellows, it won't be.
@@abree107 tysm
How can I salvage rare gear without the little window popping up asking me if I'm sure? I just want to salvage everything simultaneously like in this video (and others) but I have to do one by one. It is so annoying. Also, I see in everyone's videos that their Inventory window is massive. Mine is tiny. How can I size it up?
The confirmation will always pop up if you salvage one by one. If you right click your salvage kit and click to salvage all rares, there will only be 1 confirmation window for all of them.
If you mean resizing the window, you should be able to just click on the edge and drag it out to stretch it. If you're asking about getting a larger inventory then I'd recommend (in this order) going for 20 slot bags, looking up the 2 achievements that give free 32 slot bags, buying bag slot expansions and filling them with 20 slot bags, then crafting 28/32 slot boreal bags. That's the most cost effective ordef of options.
@@abree107 Thanks for answering so promptly. I swear I tried so many times and it didn't work before, until now. Thanks!
@@abree107 He can also get 3 free 20 slot bags as rewards by finishing each of the LWS1 chapters which doesn't take too much time to complete
I always knew you should open them for better outcome.
But it's such a pain in the @ss when they fill your inv and you can't salvage all to make room cause they will also salvage. They just frustrate me so much with all the space opening them takes. I even tried storing them in my bank to do them in bulk when I was ready. But even that was a pain having to get to a bank just to make room when I could salvage otherwise.
I'm really awful with inv management and have always just sold them so they are out of the way and I can salvage the gear in my inv.
My impatience with inv mngmnt is so bad that I have max bank space and it's all full and I have like 246? bag space on 2 chars and half of it is also just full of junk including stacks and stacks of unopened loot bags. Like once or twice a year I'll just sit down and spend all my time opening all my loot bags but it takes quite a bit of time but it is really nice with all the extra space.
I would love to have a person sit me down and go over cleaning up all my inventories with me XD Tell me what I do and don't need and such.
I just checked today and I have over 10k hours played in the past 9-10 years.
I know your pain..i think we all do, well at least the poorer players on the spectrum..
What i do for management is use the Invisibility bag and put that bag on the bottom.
Then make stacks of 1 for blue,green,yellow unidentifieds inside it so when you get them they always stacks up there.
Put them in the bank when you almost have a stack of any.
Log in on a mule character and just grab them out of the bank and keep doing that untill you want to open them.
I have the opposite problem. I obsessively compulsively clear my inventory. Open all bags, id all gear, slavage, and deposit almost as soon as I get a chance to, then sell all junk items to the next npc on the way. I also insta sell/buy and collect all from tp because I can't stand the red icon on the top of my screen. The up side is that I never need to buy bag slots and can get away with cheap, low capacity bags. The downside is that it's not gold or time efficient at all.
I have opened a couple of stacks of this, so far, i would have been better off insta selling it.
guys... after you salvage weapons, do u sell all the mats?
Crafting items with them to either use yourself (best option) or to sell on the trading post (second option) is what you'd want to do if you could. At least refine them before selling on the trading post if you can't come up with something to craft out of them. Good specific options that come to mind are lumps of mithrillium which can be crafted into deldrimor steel ingots for profit and drizzlewood coast material donations, which use the unrefined materials you get from gear. It's included in my daily gold video.
What do I do with the Ectoplasm?
Ectos are used in a lot of important crafting recipes. You can also salvage them with mystic/silverfed kits and get crystalline dust, which is used in material promotion recipes and for crafting as well. Salvaging the ectos is also a really fast way to get luck.
If you're already max luck and have all the legendaries you want, you can always find profitable items to craft that use ectos as an ingredient, which will further propagate your profit.
@@abree107 Is it also good to sell them?
@ThunderFart I'd only sell them through player to player trading, in which case you'd probably need a few stacks go make it worth your while.
If you're putting your ectos on the TP, you may as well not be salvaging your gear to begin with in all honesty. You could just list the unids, take the loss up front, and call it a day. The whole point behind processing the gear yourself is to use some of what comes out if it, rather than sell the gear, get taxed, and buy materials post-tax with that gold.
@@abree107 Hey, I'm thinking of selling all my Mystic coins because I have 150 Mystic Coins, where or how could I trade them trough players?
@@ThunderFarter I have a video on player to player trading, but the short answer is the Overflow Trading Company Discord.
Can I Ask? Why is it wrong to use Mystic Salvage Kit on Common and UnCommon?
It's more expensive per use and you get very little additional profit from the gear.
150k gold ???? Omg didn't think ita was even close to possible
Can't you just use a silveromatic on rare and lower ?
You'll lose gold doing that, as it costs 60c per use.
150k gold my god
wait, YOU CAN IDENTIFY THEM?
In short, salvage gear with the salvage kit of the same frame color...
Almost. Ignore the Journeyman's salvage kit. That thing is garbage.
I dunno how everyone says you get more gold for opening and salvaging everything. Selling green ones outright nets 2.5 silver, and ive never gotten a piece of gear or material from salvaging it that sells for that much. Unless you get really lucky and get a rare from opening which doesnt make up for it
Currently, selling a green unid nets 2s exactly, not 2.5. People rarely pay attention to charms and symbols that come from greens, which are worth quite a bit. Some are around 1g each. That's probably what you're missing. Obviously the occasional rare contributes too.
@@abree107 to be honest you need to present more fact-based evidence instead of relying on your word about this. For example, demonstrate that your theory is correct by opening 250 unidentified gear, salvaging, and adding up the total amount of gold then compare to both selling outright on TP and opening unidentified gear with selling greens options per OP.
@@gamingfanforlife290 You would need a lot more then 250 to prove this. You maybe could get a decent ideal at around 50k-100k unids. The other issue is with price fluctuating. Sometimes it will be better to sell, others better to open. You can check websites like fast or the wiki to get a general overview of the value of each open.
@@abree107 nah, im sorry but you are wrong. It was 2.5 last night when i wrote this, and it is 2.4 now. I think that your method USED to give the most gold. But not anymore. Ive tested it many times over. It is far more profitable to just sell them unopened.
@@zombiegodsire Go ahead and sell them unopened mate
150k golds omg
*checks watch* only took 2 hours this time
@@abree107 would you mine if i ask how many alt accounts do you have
im planning to do alt account 🥳
@@name9niw326 you'd have to buy gw2 accounts right?
@@ceshadow i have 3 account wait for next discount for another alt
@@name9niw326 I got a lot of alt codes given to me by friends from Twitch Prime so I have quite a few from that, but don't know the number off the top of my head. At least 10. I can tell you that I stopped logging into them consistently after 2 months or so and I made more gold from EoD investments with them than with their login rewards. With MCs as low as they are now, alt accounts aren't really as much of a gold mine as they may have been in the past. I'm a few days off 3 months since I last logged into any of mine.
The amount of gold I've made off alt accounts is pretty negligible compared to all the other sources and while alt accounts can be nice to have, you definitely don't need them to make gold. I know people have spread rumors that rich players make their money from alt accounts and all I can really say is that's simply not the case. I know 2 rich players that made a significant portion of their wealth off alts and the rest of the rich players I know used mostly other methods.
150000 gold, christ almighty
150k Gold, you fkn wot m8?
Name of video suggested it's about new steroids 😂
good production value on the video but there isn't sufficent evidence provided to back up your statements
Feel free to validate stuff using 3rd party data sites like [Fast] or collecting your own data. You don't have to take this at face value if you don't want to, but this video is oriented mostly to people that don't want to put a lot of effort into it or whip out a spreadsheet to figure it out for themselves.
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