How do you treat your farmed items?

I was wondering what everyone does with the assorted blues/purples/golds/whites they get from farming.
Do you guys :

- Sell everything to the NPC
- Salvage everything to sell the materials
-Identify the magical items to see if they have any valueable upgrade components

Those are just some examples. I was wondering if anyone knew the one that was most efficient.

Always identify, it increases their merchant value in most cases. PvP-quality items I sell to other players, low quality to merchant. Salvage only if the materials are worth more than the item itself.

Well, I do sort of a mix. First, I Identify everything, even whites. Then I sell golds to players (or the merchant if they're such total crap that it'd be too much trouble) or salvage them if they have perfect upgrade(s). I sell all purples to the merchant. All necromancer items I sell to the merchant UNLESS they're highly salvageable. Unless I need dust, I also sell all focus items unless highly salvageable. With the exception of Tribal Blades and Cleavers, I salvage everything else.

How do you know if something will end up worth salvaging?

For example, a white scroll worth 50 gp might yield 5 rolls of parcment, worth about 300gp. Whereas a white bow only gives some wood planks. Weapons might give steel. It all depends on the item.

Like my children.

I put them to bed, read stories for them, give them candy.

I dont pickup whites and rarely pickup blue items (only if it is chaos axe or some rare skin) as I have enough materials. Most of the stuff I find goes straight to merchant as I cant be bothered to sell something for 1-5k. Not perfect items, but with sensibe mods are going to newbs for free (something like shadoblade 12^50 or shadowstaff with mods matching required attribute). Newbs love that stuff and always go like "zomg thx so much"

same

i identify everything, even the white items, becouse you know what! if you identify a white item that doesn't need identification the price on that item still goes up...lol it's true, just try it yourself, anyway, sometimes i craft and some times i sell to npc or others....

no, it will just start showing the price on the item description popup, but the price itself won't go up

After you pick everything up:
1. Identify everything
2. Salvage any Blues+ with perfect/near perfect mods if they are worth more than the item itself

When in city/outpost:
1. Sort the purples and golds into merchant/keep
2. Sell the rest

Thats basically what I do, hope it helped

Try it. Open trade with the merchant and check the price he offers for a white. Then, while it's still in your inventory, identify it and watch the price in the trade window. It almost always increases more than the cost of the ID.

Then i guess the question is - Do the price go up more than what the identification scrolls cost you?

\Farm
> Sort Blues - Purples - Golds
> ID Max Blues - All Purples - All Golds
> Sell crap to Merchant (which is 99.999%)
> Try to sell good stuff in game (will try the usual haunts)
> If no love on selling in game, will post item on Guru auction

expert salvage all whites + blues
id purps and golds and if they arent so good .. slavage :P

Not true, the price WILL go up when you ID an item even if its white.

Most of my farming is either the solo FOW spider cave run with my W/me, or hydras with my 55. In both cases, there are often more drops than fit into the storage available with the character. So I salvage some items - especially those that have a note on them saying that they're especially suited to salvage. That way I can storage all ingots, steel, wood, etc. in one slot each saving on space.

Then, for everything else, I identify ... there is not doubt it's more profitable to do that with items from higher level areas (not true in low level areas).

Most stuff - I'd guess 98 percent of it - is simply sold to the merchant, that includes rare items that aren't anything special. I think I make more gold by doing that rather than spend 15 minutes to an hour trying to sell a rather ordinary rare drop.

If I find an item that I believe will bring 20k or more, I sell it ... or try to sell it ... either on the auction here on, god forbid, LA1. Even with those items I believe I may be spending too much time for too little return.

The nice thing about the spider cave run is the fact that I usually get from 2 to 5 shards worth 4k each. So those can just pile up in storage or be sold. I guess that's why that has become my main farming run, it's so nice not to have to haggle over prices or try hard to sell. There seems to be a ready and fast market for shards, the prices are pretty well set and they're easy to come by.

There sure have been times - with gold drops that aren't all that great - where I simply use trade or local chat to offer for free or at the merchant price since it seems a shame to sell gold chaos axes or shadow bows to the merchant when I know some players might want them.

I generally sell white items, unless they are drops from the southern shiverpeaks or beyond, in which case, I will expert salvage items that will give steel ingots. If I need wood or need space to pick up other items, I will salvage some staves and such for wood. As for armors, if they are from the S. Shiverpeaks or beyond, I expert salvage, if they are from earlier I will use a regular salvage kit, unless it's from somewhere like Ascalon, in which case I don't even bother and merch it.

As for runes, I always identify the armor, and if the rune is worth more than 25g or if it is something I need then I will expert salvage it. If it is not, I sell the identified runed armor to the merchant. Often this will sell for up to 150g or more depending on what enemy drops it, even if the rune is worth almost nothing.

I don't "farm" per se (going in *full* teams on quests isn't farming!), but I do get nice drops every so often. Then I just sell it on GW Guru auctions if it is sellable (meaning gold with decent mods) or I JUST USE IT (like the game means for you to do).

Because:
A. selling is boring
B. Selling takes time away from playing
C. I can just use GW Guru auction system.
D. I don't want to be annoying people with trade spam

As others have said, Identify all unid' if nothing else for potential unlocks (on swords, axes, hammers, staves, armors).
I sell all whites to the merchant or salvage for materials my guild might need (wood, cloth, hides, dust)
Same with blues.

Purples I will keep weapons if they are max dmg and have a max inherent mod for purples and a rare skin.

I usually merchant most golds except weapons that have a good mod. If it is perfect or one off, I try to salvage for the mod. Some have interesting specific mods (dmg vs trolls, armor vs. trolls etc) I hang on to those and when I get around to it, try putting some stuff up inthe sell forum.

Either that or save them up and give to guildies through an event (Trivia Contest, Scavenger Hunt, etc) or just give them to guildies if they need it.

Because there's obviously no trading or monetary mechanism built into this game, and the bizarre trade window, gold, and platinum kludges people use were only added by the programmers as random eye candy with no intention to ever have them be used

I enjoy the economic aspect of the game.

I enjoy the economic aspect of the game.

I enjoy the economic aspect of the game.

Because clearly you can't offer to sell, buy, or trade items without spamming. in fact, I hear that if you post only once to a trade channel without obsessively spamming it, somebody from ANet comes to your house and punches you in the face.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but you came off just a bit haughty and "my way or the highway" in that post...

Anyway, on topic

I don't farm anymore. The auto-nerfing takes the wind out of it for me. It's tough to find decent items without finding a good farming area, and once you find somewhere that decent items are dropping, it gets nerfed. I used to farm Southern Shiverpeaks, but I get garbage from Trolls, Avacari, Pinesouls and the Summit, and I haven't gotten a drop worth using or selling to anything but a merchant from a Shiverpeak chest in weeks.

Instead, I've started soloing on missions like The Wilds and Bloodstone Fen. Soloing those areas generally nets more loot that I can dump onto the merchant. I ID everything, including blues, and if I happen to get a halfway decent rune or upgrade, I'll salvage it and make one attempt per district in each of the three major cities to sell it every once in awhile, or possibly trade it.

Whites,blues,golds, if no use for them or no perfect mods merchanted.

I either salvage or sell to the merchant. But if I loot a high end weapon/item or mod I set them aside for guildies to see if they want it. Since im in a smaller but very tight knit guild I have a pretty good idea what to save and what to look out for. Speaking of wich I need to get the word out that im looking for a +30 pommel of fortitude in case someone loots one.

When I farm I'm looking for something specific that I need or a guildie needs. Everything else that I find that isn't the specific Item I need I identify then salvage without question. Crafting materials and upgrade components are always useful to have. I can flip bulk crafting goods at droks for a tidy little profit that usually goes into the guild coffers.

Another problem has poped up, a few threads have appreared where people have been banned for buying/selling to a bot. I probably could have sold that gold +29 health +5 armor with a fast cast bone staff to a player, but it was late so the merch got it. what there needs to be is a merch sellback, all the good stuff we sell can be bought from a merch.

I salvage everything (with a 100g salvage kit). Obviously, golds get expert salvages if they're worth it. I have no trouble selling tonnes of iron, wood and dust to other players in droks d1 and I make a fortune. Try it for a week or so.

bah you right, never noticed that... still too little difference to bother...