Guild Wars 2

Agreed, Wanze. Prior to Fractured!, I think the CFSOM actually used the stats from the Crude Salvage Kit (<5% chance for an upgrade). I would hardly ever get rarer materials like Ori or Ancient, and getting the rune/sigil from a Green was a once in a blue moon affair.

Fortunately I’d bought the CFSOM purely for the convenience factor and I wasn’t too bothered by it.

Not sure if it’s connected, but about two weeks ago I sent a bug report noting that after logging thousands of green salvages using normal basic kits (which is what the S-o-M was supposed to be emulating), that my return rate on sigils was almost exactly 5%—far less than the 20% it was supposed to be, and that they might want to look into it since the sample size was reasonable given the expected percentage. I broke the results down into 100 item blocks to help notice any unusual lumpiness and none of those 100 item block results came close to 20% individually; each came close to the same 5%.

Haven’t read the entire thread so I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned whether regular Basic kits have been modified like the S-o-M. Time to do a little re-testing.

No more questionning : the Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic behavior has been reverted to the old one with the 10th december update.
So it was indeed probably a bug (maybe unnoticed by ANet as there is nothing about this in the patch-note)

It still seems a bit shady that it gets fixed right after their big sale. I was expecting it was going to get reverted, but maybe not so fast and without any mention of it. I’m betting there will be a silver fed version for master level salvaging soon.

Montgomery.1986:

It still seems a bit shady that it gets fixed right after their big sale. I was expecting it was going to get reverted, but maybe not so fast and without any mention of it. I’m betting there will be a silver fed version for master level salvaging soon.

Fix is done, as it was broken, in a patch. It’s hardly shady and in the threads I saw about how it was broken I tried to tell players don’t buy the item if you expected the master kit results.