Dark Forest Orb Unsalvagable

syka08 · October 2013

If anyone else has found unslavageable level 60 epics, post 'em up.

So I've recently discovered some people selling items on the AH lower than the salvage price. Seems like a nice way to earn a few extra hundred AD or so a day since I'm never really at my cap limit. If I find more as I peruse this hobby I'll post, but I'm fairly sure this is supposed to classify as a salvageable objects.

But...

soooo... yeah. Out about 4k right now, unless I'm mistaken? Working on submitting a ticket as well.

xelliz · October 2013

The Dark Forest Holy Symbol is also salvageable.

syka08 · October 2013

Irk. = /.

Okay, hoping this isn't going to be a trend with all the "Dark Forest" items. I'll see if I cant get a hold of some more of them and see if the rest are unsalvagable or not. Thanks for letting me/us know. Anyone care to assist in this examination?

Purchased the long-sword off of the AH, I'll update this later in the evening (eastern time) to see if this is a developing trend with all the dark forest items (weapons at least, for now.)

Also, slow me derping here but: These are the epic items dropping out of the new Dark Forest lockbox, yes?

beckylunatic · October 2013

These are the equipment crate weapons, and I am relatively certain they are working as intended, other than the fact that they are not the expected level 60 items that you can use at level 49 (per previous equipment crates).

None of them can be salvaged.

syka08 · October 2013

These are the equipment crate weapons, and I am relatively certain they are working as intended, other than the fact that they are not the expected level 60 items that you can use at level 49 (per previous equipment crates).

None of them can be salvaged.

Thanks for that. Very helpful

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So per dinohedron's post here: http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?440211-Salvage-Dungeon-Event-Chests-and-AD-Updates!

Salvage Trader
Hieronymous Glim is back! You can find his stall and animated hammer in the Seven Suns Coster Market. Talk to him to find out everything you need to know about Salvage. If you have any level 60 purple items you don’t need you can bring them here, right click them, and select the Salvage option to destroy them and gain Rough Astral Diamonds.

They should be salvagable. Tool tips confirm is a level 60 item. It is a purple/very rare. Sooooo now the question remains as to why they can't be salvaged even though the listed criteria is met.

dardove · October 2013

syka08 wrote: »

They should be salvagable. Tool tips confirm is a level 60 item. It is a purple/very rare. Sooooo now the question remains as to why they can't be salvaged even though the listed criteria is met.

Because they are missing the salvageable tag.

syka08 · October 2013

dardove wrote: »

Because they are missing the salvageable tag.

helpful, but not entirely what I meant. Thanks anyway.

vverg · October 2013

dardove wrote: »

Because they are missing the salvageable tag.

And the blue (rare) gear with "Salvageable" tag than? (and can't be salvaged lol)

dardove · October 2013

vverg wrote: »

And the blue (rare) gear with "Salvageable" tag than? (and can't be salvaged lol)

They were missing the other requirements. Probably as a fail safe in case something gets wrongly flagged.

beckylunatic · October 2013

The thing is, these equipment crates are supposed to drop purple items for all levels, based on the level of the character opening it. All of those items probably should have a minimum level to equip of 49, and therefore not be salvageable, because they're not T1/T2 epics.

Communication on this matter is fairly garbled.
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?499581-Dark-Forest-Lockbox-Status-Update

syka08 · October 2013

Hm... really starting to get a vibe of just staying away from these things for just about any purpose ^^;. But I suppose that maybe they can't make them salvageable because its a modular level weapon?

beckylunatic · October 2013

I would look at them as a potential starter purple weapon that you might be able to obtain for cheap. I snagged a dagger for a newly minted 60 TR for the low price of 1000AD, which I don't expect to see again since people have figured out the stats on them aren't exactly terrible.

Really, anyone who has ever opened any of the lockbox equipment crates with a level 60 character is not using that drop to its full potential as the gear from them can be terrific for levelling... not so much when you can be wearing actual epic items. Which makes the items fairly worthless to anyone else as well. Silly.

These weapons aren't even good for people's 49+ characters because of the level lock-out.

Don't buy anything to salvage unless the item description says "salvageable" (the mis-tagged blues are fixed, and were all BoP items anyway).

sominator · October 2013

Thanks for these reports! We're taking a look.

syka08 · October 2013

Thanks for the response Sominator. I look forward to hearing on this.

beckylunatic · October 2013

Another indicator that they are not intended to be level 60 gear is the lack of a weapon enchantment slot.

xanthus83 · October 2013

Any word on the orbs? Sitting on a few that would be nice to use. Especially since they were acquired with real money.

syka08 · October 2013

Not sure where it sits on their priority listing, but hopefully we'll hear something soon. I pushed off the items I had at a loss, but if this ever does get fixed, that'd be great.

Or, at least, expand the definition of salvagable items to exclude these modular-level type items? Either way, I look forward to a response.

Dark Forest Orb Unsalvagable

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