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Blue (Rare) items....what to do with them now?

lostgunmanlostgunman Member Posts: 3 Arc User
in Player Feedback (PC)
Basically, L70 standard blue items...before I was sacrificing them to certain artifact equipment for refining points. Now, I have no clue what to do with them...except sell them, but that seems like such a waste. Did they forget to add them into the refining process or was this on purpose?

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  • rafaeldarafaelda Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 666 Arc User
    lostgunman said:

    Basically, L70 standard blue items...before I was sacrificing them to certain artifact equipment for refining points. Now, I have no clue what to do with them...except sell them, but that seems like such a waste. Did they forget to add them into the refining process or was this on purpose?

    Best option would be allow salvage on them, since turning on RP could break other salvageable items...

    Every blue or purple equipment should be salvageable...
  • pitshadepitshade Member Posts: 5,665 Arc User
    They can also be fed to a guild coffer as Surplus Equipment for a decent return.
    "We have always been at war with Dread Vault" ~ Little Brother
  • joehighland1joehighland1 Member Posts: 10 Arc User
    This has been asked a few times already, i have seen 0 replies from dvs or anyone of importance
  • plasticbatplasticbat Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 12,452 Arc User
    edited November 2017
    joehighland1 said:

    This has been asked a few times already, i have seen 0 replies from dvs or anyone of importance

    There were a few replies from Cryptic. However, there was no real answer regarding if they will change anything or not.

    https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1236017/cant-turn-blue-equipment-into-rp
    *** The game can read your mind. If you want it, you won't get it. If you don't expect to get it, you will. ***
  • wintersmokewintersmoke Member Posts: 1,641 Arc User
    plasticbat said:

    joehighland1 said:

    This has been asked a few times already, i have seen 0 replies from dvs or anyone of importance

    There were a few replies from Cryptic. However, there was no real answer regarding if they will change anything or not.

    https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1236017/cant-turn-blue-equipment-into-rp
    That tread is closed, so I will reply here. The dev stated that players (it was assumed) would rather have the AD than the RP. Which may be true. But, since these items cannot be salvaged... the answer is inadequate, @noworries#8859
  • callumf#9018 callumf
    callumf#9018
         Member Posts: 1,710 Arc User
    wintersmoke said:

    plasticbat said:

    joehighland1 said:

    This has been asked a few times already, i have seen 0 replies from dvs or anyone of importance

    There were a few replies from Cryptic. However, there was no real answer regarding if they will change anything or not.

    https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1236017/cant-turn-blue-equipment-into-rp
    That tread is closed, so I will reply here. The dev stated that players (it was assumed) would rather have the AD than the RP. Which may be true. But, since these items cannot be salvaged... the answer is inadequate, @noworries#8859
    Sorry maybe I am being stupid but how do you get AD from blue equipment? Via selling on the AH?
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  • plasticbatplasticbat Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 12,452 Arc User
    edited November 2017
    callumf#9018 said:

    wintersmoke said:

    plasticbat said:

    joehighland1 said:

    This has been asked a few times already, i have seen 0 replies from dvs or anyone of importance

    There were a few replies from Cryptic. However, there was no real answer regarding if they will change anything or not.

    https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1236017/cant-turn-blue-equipment-into-rp
    That tread is closed, so I will reply here. The dev stated that players (it was assumed) would rather have the AD than the RP. Which may be true. But, since these items cannot be salvaged... the answer is inadequate, @noworries#8859
    Sorry maybe I am being stupid but how do you get AD from blue equipment? Via selling on the AH?
    It appears Dev cannot (but should) easily separate salvageable and non-salvageable.

    Since there are blue salvageable and no green salvageable, they expected people would rather salvage "blue" for AD instead of converting to RP. That is correct but it is misleading. There are blue non-salvageable. They know there are blue non-salvageable but did not do anything about that. A poor excuse in my opinion.
    *** The game can read your mind. If you want it, you won't get it. If you don't expect to get it, you will. ***
  • therealprotextherealprotex Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 526 Arc User
    Why not make both? Rare and higher quality items (incl. artifacts and artifact equipment) should be salvagable for both, ADs and refinement points. Let the player choose for what he/she wants to salvage the items.
  • pitshadepitshade Member Posts: 5,665 Arc User
    Before 12.5, non salvageable blue gear mostly only came from a few sources at level 70: MotH, Dread Legion, Dread Ring lairs, earlier week Tiamat. At that point, rate items which were not salvage were outliers. Under these circumstances, the Dev response makes sense.

    Now with people running sub level 70 content more, these blue non salvageable items are much more common. If they are coded the same, that needs to adjusted to match the refining changes. Either make them RP or make them salvage.
    "We have always been at war with Dread Vault" ~ Little Brother
  • dafrca#4810 dafrca
    dafrca#4810
         Member Posts: 469 Arc User
    pitshade said:

    Before 12.5, non salvageable blue gear mostly only came from a few sources at level 70: MotH, Dread Legion, Dread Ring lairs, earlier week Tiamat. At that point, rate items which were not salvage were outliers. Under these circumstances, the Dev response makes sense.



    Now with people running sub level 70 content more, these blue non salvageable items are much more common. If they are coded the same, that needs to adjusted to match the refining changes. Either make them RP or make them salvage.

    As someone playing a lower level character I can tell you both pre and post 12b there were a lot of blue items dropping that could not be salvaged. I loved when it happened at first because often they were better then the green gear I had on my characters. Seems the easy answer is make all blue items salvageable and just make the lower end blue stuff not a lot of AD.

  • plasticbatplasticbat Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 12,452 Arc User
    edited November 2017
    I think a lot of level 70 players do not know fully what is changed in mod 12b.
    Green/Blue means green/blue equipment that is not Artifact or Artifact Equipment/weapon or salvageable.
    In a nut shell, green junk and blue junk.

    Before mod 12b:
    Green/Blue: 70 can be used for RP, served to mimic and exchange for gold.
    Green/Blue: 60 to 69 can be used for RP of level 60 AE (nobody has it now I think), serve to mimic and exchange for gold.
    Green/Blue: 1 to 59: exchange for gold.

    After mod 12b:
    Green: 1 to 70 can be converted to RP and exchange for gold.
    Green 60 to 70 can be served to mimic.

    Blue: 60 to 70 can be served to mimic.
    Blue: 1 to 70 can be exchanged to gold.


    For me, the current situation of Green is good (note that my 'Green' does not include Artifact and AE and salvageable).
    Blue should be treated the same way like Green.

    What should be done is to have both green and blue to be converted to RP and exclude Artifact, Artifact Equipment and salvageable in that particular filter.
    *** The game can read your mind. If you want it, you won't get it. If you don't expect to get it, you will. ***
  • wintersmokewintersmoke Member Posts: 1,641 Arc User
    callumf#9018 said:

    wintersmoke said:

    plasticbat said:

    joehighland1 said:

    This has been asked a few times already, i have seen 0 replies from dvs or anyone of importance

    There were a few replies from Cryptic. However, there was no real answer regarding if they will change anything or not.

    https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1236017/cant-turn-blue-equipment-into-rp
    That tread is closed, so I will reply here. The dev stated that players (it was assumed) would rather have the AD than the RP. Which may be true. But, since these items cannot be salvaged... the answer is inadequate, @noworries#8859
    Sorry maybe I am being stupid but how do you get AD from blue equipment? Via selling on the AH?
    Yes, that is currently the only way to get AD for blue equipment. Unfortunately, the prices are not stable. You can get 2k AD one day, & 100 AD the next.

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  • robai#6206 robai
    robai#6206
         Member Posts: 366 Arc User
    Blue items are totally useless now:
    - you can't convert them to RP atm
    - you can't earn AD by selling them on AH (after 12b they are super cheap since everyone is trying to sell them, Devs completely ruined economy here)
    - you can't donate them to the Mimic (Guild coffer almost never needs it)
  • dionchidionchi Member Posts: 919 Arc User
    Since the other two "blue gear" threads have been closed (yet this one remains open), I've got to post my observations here I suppose - either that or start a new thread.

    I've had an opportunity to confirm with a few family and friends my observation that he rate of the blue gear drops have been seriously nerfed – or eliminated completely... that is to say prior to blue gear becoming convertible for refinement points I was able to pick up at least one and often several, level 70 blue gear items running the elemental caves in Pirates’ Skyhold and Ebon Downs not to mention the occasional blue gear drops when confronting mobs while battling dragons.

    Lately I’ve run all of the above mentioned content, multiple times (probably a dozen times) without a single level 70, blue item drop…

    So we finely get the programmers to allow us to convert unsalvageable blue items for refinement points – then they decide to severely reduce (not ‘slightly reduce’ or even ‘moderately reduce’ was the consensus) the number of blue items dropped.

    Neverwinter givith and Neverwinter taketh away.
    DD~
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