Salvaging unid gold armor - Guild Wars Forums

KartMan · Sep 26, 2007, 08:27 AM // 08:27

Hi all,

I've been noticing this strange thing for a while, I don't know if it was a stealth update or if it's working as intended :

when you try to expert salvage a unid gold armor, instead of getting an unid rune or insignia and having a chance to keep the original unid armor, now the armor breaks all the time.

I have rank 6 treasure hunter and wisdom and I have tested this on around 20 unid armor (not bought, I don't buy unid, all were selfdropped), every one of them broke, whereas I used to break like 1 or 2 on 20 a few weeks before.

maybe it's just a (very) big coincidence ...

I don't know if it's this topic should be moved to bug or not, mods please advise if needed

immortius · Sep 26, 2007, 08:38 AM // 08:38

From memory that was added a while ago to prevent people getting multiple identifys from a single item.

KartMan · Sep 26, 2007, 08:47 AM // 08:47

ok thanks for the info, I found out it was during the 23th august update :

Quote:

Originally Posted by gamewiki

Salvaging unidentified armors will produce a rune or insignia and always break the armor, eliminating the possibility of getting an unidentified armor with no rune on it. This prevents selling those unidentified gold armors to others as if they have runes, it also prevents players going after the Wisdom title track from getting double IDs from one item.

oh well, I wish they made that more apparent
edit : I mean it was only a footnote on gamewiki and nothing was said on the official site or wiki ...

take_me · Sep 26, 2007, 08:56 AM // 08:56

"eliminating the possibility of getting an unidentified armor with no rune on it"

There were lots of scams, where people bought Unid Armor that has already been salvaged.

Lycan Nibbler · Sep 26, 2007, 08:56 AM // 08:56

I am not sure if anyone ever tried to use one of the perfect salvage kits from GW:EN though - I know there was a previous thread about this but I lost track of it...

Sep 26, 2007, 08:27 AM // 08:27	#1
KartMan Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Grand Line Guild: Plz Use R Instead of Q for [req]	Salvaging unid gold armor Hi all, I've been noticing this strange thing for a while, I don't know if it was a stealth update or if it's working as intended : when you try to expert salvage a unid gold armor, instead of getting an unid rune or insignia and having a chance to keep the original unid armor, now the armor breaks all the time. I have rank 6 treasure hunter and wisdom and I have tested this on around 20 unid armor (not bought, I don't buy unid, all were selfdropped), every one of them broke, whereas I used to break like 1 or 2 on 20 a few weeks before. maybe it's just a (very) big coincidence ... I don't know if it's this topic should be moved to bug or not, mods please advise if needed

Sep 26, 2007, 08:38 AM // 08:38	#2
immortius Krytan Explorer Join Date: Aug 2005 Guild: Black Cats Profession: E/Mo	From memory that was added a while ago to prevent people getting multiple identifys from a single item.

Sep 26, 2007, 08:56 AM // 08:56	#4
take_me Furnace Stoker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Europe Guild: Country Roads [HOME]	"eliminating the possibility of getting an unidentified armor with no rune on it" There were lots of scams, where people bought Unid Armor that has already been salvaged.

Sep 26, 2007, 08:56 AM // 08:56	#5
Lycan Nibbler Forge Runner Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: AZ	I am not sure if anyone ever tried to use one of the perfect salvage kits from GW:EN though - I know there was a previous thread about this but I lost track of it...