Trial Rewards Table: Voluntary downgrades
Don't they allow you to melt down the components? I could be mistaken, since I've paid slightly more than zero attention to the Incarnate system. However, I thought they added the ability to "disassemble" any of the components into a bit more than half the amount of parts you'd need to make it. (IE, for the shard stuff, a Common component breaks into one or two shards, an Uncommon breaks into three or four, and so on.) Melting them down "wastes" a good portion of their value in the sense that an Uncommon Shard Component takes eight shards to make and only melts down to about half that. But if you aren't using the component for anything else anyway, it's 100% wasted if you can't craft it into something.
When you win an incarnate trial, you get to choose one piece of salvage for your reward. The rarity of your one piece is random, however.
What I would like to see is the ability to choose any piece of a lower rarity than you get randomly assigned. If you get the Uncommon piece reward window, have the option to downgrade your reward to a common. If you get the Very Rares, have the option to downgrade to Rare, and from there on down to Common if you wish.
This would help you get more salvage that you actually need. Right now, you'll get way more Uncommons than you're likely to use.
Issue 16 made me feel like this.
Warning: This poster likes to play Devil's Advocate.