Can i restore a salvaged armor?

Platinum Wand

Platinum Wand

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

N/

I accidentally salvaged my one of a kind leg armor with a unique dye before the update they did for dye combinations. I was trying to salvage runes out of my hero armor but realized it was my own character. Do you think they can restore it? If possible i took a screenshot as evidence of the horrible mistake i did if they can do anything.

Gennadios

Gennadios

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2009

N/A

Unfortunately my money would be to say it's a lost cause.

ANet doesn't even have the will/resources to restore characters lost as a result of NCSoft/ANet's own glaring security holes.

Doing a restore on something lost due to user error will be very unlikely.

Platinum Wand

Platinum Wand

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

N/

Oh well it was my fault and i'll understand if Anet can't do anything about this. I just want to know if this happened to any other players before and if they got any contacts from support.

Iuris

Iuris

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Crazy ducks from the Forest

W/

Oh, it hapened to thousands who salvaged/sold important items due to carelessness (me included ). Anet has no mechanism that would allow you to restore the situation, so you're better off asking "How do I farm the materials and money for a new one ASAP?"

Platinum Wand

Platinum Wand

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

N/

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Originally Posted by Iuris View Post
Oh, it hapened to thousands who salvaged/sold important items due to carelessness (me included ). Anet has no mechanism that would allow you to restore the situation, so you're better off asking "How do I farm the materials and money for a new one ASAP?"
Ah i already have more than enough for another but its the dye that i won't be able to replicate this time. Something i will never be able to attain since the dye combination is no longer achievable.

Well thanks anyways guys for the replies. I guess ill just move on and be more cautious next time.

Archress Shayleigh

Archress Shayleigh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2009

Guild Hall

R/

It probably happened to thousands of other players... And sadly, they can't do anything for you even if they did want to. They can't 'pop' things up in the server. They can change drop rates, change monsters, do pretty much anything BUT 'pop' stuff up into the server... Sorry mate, it's lost. :\

Covah

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Ontario, Canada

Catching Jellyfish With [소N트T ]

Me/Rt

http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Perfect_salvage_kit

Neo Atomisk

Neo Atomisk

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2008

State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]

W/

if you've been playing since '06 you should know that a-net doesn't restore items.

Raven Wing

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Imperial Guards of Istan [TIGI]

N/

Your only chance is to buy oldschool mixed dyes from someone who have had them stored from old days. There are a few, but I guess your chances are slim

Jongal

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by Archress Shayleigh View Post
It probably happened to thousands of other players... And sadly, they can't do anything for you even if they did want to. They can't 'pop' things up in the server. They can change drop rates, change monsters, do pretty much anything BUT 'pop' stuff up into the server... Sorry mate, it's lost. :\
I am pretty sure they can "pop" things "up". They don't want to for several reasons.

jray14

jray14

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

NC, USA

Ohm Mahnee Pedmay [Hoom]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jongal View Post
I am pretty sure they can "pop" things "up". They don't want to for several reasons.
No, they can't, unless they've been lying to us. They've said many times that they intentionally programmed things in advance so that it's impossible for any of their staff to un-delete items. I think it was a really stupid policy to implement WITHOUT an accompanying mechanism to enable us to mark certain characters as undeletable or items as unsalvagable / untradable. Let's just hope they remedy this in GW2. At least it's something they have control over, unlike many of the ridiculous security loopholes that belong to their parent company.

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven Wing View Post
Your only chance is to buy oldschool mixed dyes from someone who have had them stored from old days. There are a few, but I guess your chances are slim
Nope sir. This won't work even if he finds an old mixed dye with the exact combination of colors.

It's not common knowledge but the old mixed dyes were nerfed together with the whole dye mixing system, for example if you apply a Vial of Dye [Mixed] that's Blue+Silver on an armor it will look exactly the same as if you just used a Blue + a Silver dye manually. It won't reproduce the color that dye would produce if used before NF update. And in case a Dye Remover was used in the [Mixed] dye, it's just ignored by current mixing system, so for example a Red+Remover Mixed dye will look exactly the same as if you just used a single Red.