Minor runes and sigils in 2018

Please, PLEASE turn them into items that can be sold with the "Sell Junk" button.

Either that or make runes / sigils impossible to be salvaged unless you use at least a green salvage kit. It is ridiculous how long these little bugs have plagued everyone's bags without ANet doing something about it. Is it a secret plot to get people to buy inventory bag slots? I hope not lol.

Edit- Ideas gathered so far:

• Turn them into junk items (unviable because it needs a merchant).
• Make runes and sigils impossible to be salvaged with Basic salvage kits or equivalent tools so that if you really want them, you can still get them.
• Make runes and sigils themselves salvageable for copper / t1 leather or something different.
• Replace everything with uindentified items.
• Delete them from the game, like LoL removed basic runes back then. You can still use ruby fragments or those weird gemstones up until level 39 anyway.

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I'd prefer a more comprehensive solution that either turned them into something that wasn't junk. Or better yet, improve the upgrade mechanic generally to make it less onerous overall. Frustrating as too many major/minor runes can be, I'm willing to wait.

One of reasons I avoid doing pve in this game, because its inventory management wars, not guild wars

@dragonkain.3984 said:One of reasons I avoid doing pve in this game, because its inventory management wars, not guild wars

It's not that hard to learn how to manage your inventory.

Step 1: Stop opening every container the second it pops into your inventory.Step 2: Salvage and deposit frequently.Step 3: You don't need 67 toys and tonics and random items in your bags all the times.

Another solution would be to give the Unidentified Gear Treatment to all Loottables to replace some amount of "trashloot" with Unidentified Gear - which makes inventory management a lot more enjoyable without taking anything away from us.

But I think the best solution would be to rethink the entire Sigil&Rune thing, anything other than their Superior versions are quite literally trashloot and serve no purpose. (I'm aware that some people toss them in the Mystic Forge to get higher Quality Runes/Sigils and eventually sell them for decent profit, but their original purpose is to serve as a gear upgrade). I remember when I started playing the game and I also remember that I didn't care about Sigils and Runes in any way until I reached Lv80 and seeked out the Superior ones. Minor Runes/Sigils had made absolutely no difference for me. They could just remove the Upgrade slots from every piece of gear below Exotic and remove all sigils and runes that aren't "Superior" and it wouldn't affect anyones gameplay, besides the fact that our inventories are less cluttered and we make slightly less gold which could be balanced by increasing the Junk-Droprate (You know, those items that are only there to clutter your inventory and serve as additional income, Broken Spoons and such, those items that server exactly the same purpose as minor runes and sigil for the majority of GW2 Players)

I think Anet should just add another sell all button for non-junk items that everyone still sells to npc vendors anyway. Maybe make it sell items with sell prices too low to get a better profit on the trading post.

Absolutely no on this suggestion. Make Runes and Sigils able to be salvaged and you've got yourself a good solution.

@Tentonhammr.7849 said:

@dragonkain.3984 said:One of reasons I avoid doing pve in this game, because its

inventory management wars

, not

guild wars

How do you salvage or deposit runes and sigils my dude?

You realize that by salvaging, you create more runes and sigils, right? How do you get rid of those if no merchant is nearby? That's right, drag and drop each one of them. That's the extremely annoying part.

I'm against getting rid of the low level runes and sigils. Selling them pays for my salvage kits.

Even most exotic runes/sigils are junk.

I'd be happy if they finally fixed that bug that prevents you from selling the crap on the TP because they would be below listing price.

I’d rather have a magical salvage tool, that yields no runes, but extra magic find, or unbound magic (higher yields if its a major rune)

@Vavume.8065 said:Even most exotic runes/sigils are junk.

Which is why a Salvage option for them would be great.

It would also work as a way to add some Hardened Leather back to the game.

@mtpelion.4562 said:Which is why a Salvage option for them would be great.

Agreed.

The "sell junk button" is not a good solution because you still need to be next to a merchant for that. Either salvage minor/major sigils/runes into dust (takes 1 slot in invo instead of 47862) OR remove them from dropped gear.

Make them salvageable, add a button that allows you to trash them/sell them in bulk, add some other purpose to them. All these things would help make green and yellow sigils and runes less of a nuisance