Most useless items?

mtxed

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

tdOt, Canada

W/Mo

Which ones are the most uselesss ones that we should just sell to a merchant or something?

Wood planks, bones, dust, cloth?

Ollaolas

Ollaolas

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

8-bit Hell

Lodestones.

But for materials, it really depends on your class.

Axle_Fieshe

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

Mo/W

i hate lodestones...i want them to die :P

always when i'm huntin with my friend he gets the weapons, and i get assigned to lodestones :S

Shadowdaemon

Shadowdaemon

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Anderson IN USA

Ecks Di [xD]

W/N

i can get way more on any of those from trading then i can from the merchant, so sell em all to me

Zai

Zai

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Lodestones are not crafting material... Granite slabs are.

udflyer00

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Ohio

N/Me

as a necromancer class what salvage items should I be keeping?? I have been holding onto everything in the world I salvage.... Iron, wood, dust, bone, hide, etc... Please let me know if I can stop carrying some of this around!!

mtxed

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

tdOt, Canada

W/Mo

exact thign i wnat to know, im W/MO and i have a whole boatload of all these things..

The IOU

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Iowa

Guild of Night

Mo/E

Depends...I have found wood planks to be pretty useless.

Badenstein

Badenstein

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2005

Ohio

Wood Planks become charcoal, which is needed for steel.

The best thing to do is get the crafting requirements for the armor and then see which items are not needed by your primary class.

Lasher Dragon

Lasher Dragon

Draconic Rage Incarnate

Join Date: Apr 2005

Iowa

Alphahive

R/A

Well, by the time you can get any decent armor, the mobs drop tons of crafting material. Save enough to get the best armor you can in Ascalon, then slang the rest. What I do is, I try to keep around 10 or so of each material and I sell the rest.

Dred Skullord

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

Neverland Ranch

[GBV] www.GuidedByVoices.net

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by The IOU
Depends...I have found wood planks to be pretty useless.
You need wood to build druid armor for rangers. They run 150 gp for 10 in Lion's Arch. Druid armor is probably the best armor as it gives the ranger extra energy. If you have extra wood planks, sell them to me or any other ranger.

Also, a lot of useless material like the "eyes" or carapices are later sold to collectors in the Wild.

C-Tzar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

North AL, USA

E/Mo

Until I find some use (quest?) for them, I vote tapestry shred and Hunter's Ale as the two most useless items so far.

Julius Gaius

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Santa Barbara, CA

don't forget the post-searing broken flute!

mtxed

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

tdOt, Canada

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dred Skullord
You need wood to build druid armor for rangers. They run 150 gp for 10 in Lion's Arch. Druid armor is probably the best armor as it gives the ranger extra energy. If you have extra wood planks, sell them to me or any other ranger.

Also, a lot of useless material like the "eyes" or carapices are later sold to collectors in the Wild.
stormy eyes..

damn, i jus cleared it all out, too much crap in my inventory from pre-searon

cyrlyx

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2005

Kryta with Oink!

Coven of the Blood Moon

E/Mo

wood planks are used for parchment. necros and monks need parchment for their scar and tatoo armors.

The IOU

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Iowa

Guild of Night

Mo/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dred Skullord
You need wood to build druid armor for rangers. They run 150 gp for 10 in Lion's Arch. Druid armor is probably the best armor as it gives the ranger extra energy. If you have extra wood planks, sell them to me or any other ranger.

Also, a lot of useless material like the "eyes" or carapices are later sold to collectors in the Wild.
I am a ranger, but I wouldn't spend that much on wood. I can salvage items from Yak or AC and get wood in 10 min.

Wood, Cloth and Tanned squares or whatever are the most items I have after I salvage stuff.

Granamyr

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2005

Mo/

Use the armor guide on this site to see what kind of materials you want to keep for your class. Keep all of your rare crafting items (silk, steel, linen, fur, etc) and sell them to other players unless you need them for your own armor.

As for common materials, cloth is still in pretty high demand so you could probably make more money holding onto it and selling to players rather than selling to a merchant. There's a good market out there for cloth trading or buying. Sell the rest of the common materials you won't need as well as craftable items that turn into materials you won't need.

The key here is gold. Gold can buy you anything you need and all those items in your inventory are costing you money by not allowing you to pick up more and more items to sell. You can buy all the materials you'll need to craft your armor so theoretically, you could sell everything and just buy stuff when you're ready to craft.

mtxed

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

tdOt, Canada

W/Mo

meh the value of cloth is low, 10 for 111 gold, compared to ingots, 6 for 300..

Pandora's box

Pandora's box

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Netherlands

Mo/W

I'm still on the Ascalon map (post-searing) and its hard to make a choice out of all the useless crap dropped there. What strikes me is that its almost (low level) mage stuff like cestas, wands and icons. No good weapons, no good shields or armor. Yes its possible to salvage them, but after a week of playing I think crafting is... well fake! All items are pre-devined. Crafting is fun if its done by the player, to create something completely new. Gathering some basic stuff and let a shopkeeper make something without even rolling a dice is no fun. I cant say whats the worst item. I only can say there's no good item... so far.