16 hours ago, SlayerXX.7138 said:
Feel free to ask any follow up question. They system is a little convoluted and players desire to optimize destroys a lot of common sense approach a new player would take. I myself didn't know opening greens is a loss till I fact checked my advice posting here.
Unimportant. It means you get more value out of gear you salvage. But with players looking at spreadsheets for ages and market forces influencing the prices it is useless information to look at that stuff in game. You better of looking at the same spreadsheets online then figure the math out yourself.
I agree with Slayer here that if you are going to "optimise" every salvage vs selling at TP or when to use which glyphs (or what gem store gathering tool that is most optimal to buy), then you will spend a lot of time only to figure this out instead of playing this game and gather while you are close to gathering nodes during events or when you exploring maps.
In my opinion you have two classes of Glyphs: (a) "speed up Glyphs" like Glyphs of reaping which collect every node in an AoE as long nodes are in range or Glyphs of Industry which only speed up that node your are gathering from. There is also a "cheaper" type which have 33% chance to gather faster which is called Glyph of Timekeeper. The other type of class is (b) "addition Glyphs" which is add items or more mats from interacting with nodes like Glyph of Bounty which is also based on a 33% chance every time you gather from a node.
It is important to understand that Glyphs work like upgrades for gear, but without any restriction or fee. For getting back upgrades (runes from armour and Sigils from weapons) without turning them into mats you would need a special tool salvage tool (like an Extractor for Sigils or Runes).
For Glyphs you only need to use your characters Hero Panel where you can move Glyphs out of Gathering tools they have been equipped on by right clicking on it to get options to remove it from that Gathering tool or just mark that Gathering tool you want to replace a Glyphs on and click on Glyph that are in your inventory to exchange place.
As an example if you buy Skyscale Hatchling Harvesting Tool which come with Glyph of Reaping equipped and went to Thunderhead Peak's where there is two or three spots with Iron nodes on different elevations (close enough to use an AoE Gathering Glyph like Reaping), then you could just move that Glyph to any Mining tool and now you can use Reaping effect every time you are gathering from mining nodes.
If you later plan to go to Orr where there a ring of trees standing close, then just move that to your logging axe and now with only one interact you will have all these logs instead of having to interact with every which you would have to if you use Industry or Bounty Glyphs.
As far as I can tell from all posts here it seem to not mention that you actually can move every glyph to every gathering tool incl those non-permanent or non-infinite tools that you can buy from NPC vendors. The main difference when those charges have ended, you will now have to re equip that glyph to continue (as Glyphs will be moved into Inventory when the last charge have been used on those gathering tools). In short you don't need to buy permanent gathering tools as such, but it is probably still cheaper then if you would farm gold to purchase same Glyph from Black Lion Trade Post as Gold to Gem very much is in the same price range for getting those Glyphs or purchase a permanent/infinite one from GS which have Glyph.
[edit: When you use right click which brings up different option, make sure that you don't pick destroy (it is the last option at bottom of that list) as both Infinite/Permanent Gathering tools and Glyphs can be destroyed/deleted by accident from you account!]
Just make sure that you are buying a package deal with both Infinite/permanent tool AND Glyph as some Infinite/Permanent Gathering tools are also sold without any Glyphs (only a skin with an animation with infinite charges).
You can find out more about which tools are sold with what Glyphs here (scroll down on wiki to find a list of these sold in GS).
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gathering_tool
Permanent Gathering tools and also Glyphs are account bound which means that the best use is to keep your Glyphs or Gathering tools (saveShared Inventory slot by equipping Glyph on Gathering tool) in Shared Inventory as you then can fast change character and exchange gathering tool (keep a cheap gathering tool in each charters gathering slot) and now you other character will also have same tools for gathering.
GW2 efficency site is a very useful site for finding fast which maps that have rich nodes and there are BlishHUD where you can pick map marker for where you can farm nodes that are close to each other.
https://github.com/blish-hud/Blish-HUD
(There is a video explaining how to use BlishHUD and you need to activate a module called "pathing" which in turn have different option for map markers with different focus, TACOs map markers is one that should be well known from community and there a lot of other that might help to find out where those gathering nodes can be found on maps)
Edited by ShadowCatz.8437
