Guild Wars 2

It took a while.
I didn’t get Mawdrey II right away, took a couple days, so I’m sure someone else got a full stack before me, but I’m the one that’s first to report what I got from a full stack (from what I noticed), so I claim ‘first’.
I got all these for the low-low price of 12,500 Piles of Bloodstone Dust (50 stacks) over the last ~10 weeks
First screenshot is the proof, rest are the loot. I wanted to have 1 screen with everything, but it didn’t fit. I salvaged all the greens with CFSoM and included the salvaged materials in the screenshots (there were 241). omnomnomnom

Summary of the good stuff:
2 lesser vision crystals
2 lodestones
3 less-than-lodestone rare mats
2 powerful blood
pretty much 1 of every salvageable material (a few of them; 2)
13 rares

The TP contract in 1st image is mine, not from Mawdrey. helpful for storing stuff while opening them.
Those 3 items in bottom left of 2nd image: Pristine Gold Ring lvl 29 (master), Orrian Master Scholar Certificate lvl 75 (master), Queen’s Medal lvl 22 (fine). They just seemed special; like they werent just normal junk items. Also, not salvageable. I’ll probably destroy them after checking if they do anything.
The items in the 3rd image are all the rares. All are generic “Cleric’s Banded Coat of Strength” types. I sold 2 for like 70s and salvaged the rest
I sold all the junk items for 1g22c

Hope you had an interesting time!

Ty for your data!

Thanks, kindly, Mystic. Great data.

By the way, did you end up getting your Trash Collection via Mawdrey? (Or had you already done that on your own?) I made a good deal of progress the first week I had the converter, but nothing since. (Perhaps because I open the gifts on a mid-tier character.)

I already had 46/51 trash. I didn’t get any I didn’t already have. I haven’t gone out of my way to collect junk yet, but I’ll probably need to for the last couple that are only from weird places.
If it matters, I opened those gifts on a lvl 80 mesmer.

Mystic.5934:

I already had 46/51 trash. I didn’t get any I didn’t already have. I haven’t gone out of my way to collect junk yet, but I’ll probably need to for the last couple that are only from weird places.
If it matters, I opened those gifts on a lvl 80 mesmer.

Thanks.

And, I’m not sure if level/class matters for junk results from those bags. It affects the level of gear you get from standard champ bags, but not the tier of mats/miscellany. Still, useful to have all the data

PS sorry that didn’t finish out your junk collection; be nice to have gotten it out of the way.

Thanks for the research, Mystic.

I would just like to take the time to say how awesome it is that I can post a screen shot of icons and people are able to read what was obtained. It’s great having different icons for everything

Nice data, thanks for doing this.

Thanks for doing this.

Does anybody else get the feeling that there is a non-random element to this? To have not got more than two of any salvageable item strikes me as suspicious.

there were 2 of a few of them. 9, to be specific. You are right, though, in a random situation, you would see some with 1, some with 2, some with 5, etc. What this tells me is that there are far more salvageable materials available in the pool than I observed.
For example, if you picked 20 random numbers from 1 to 100, you would expect 1, maybe 2 of 18ish different numbers. you wouldn’t expect 5 of one number. But if you picked 100 numbers, then you would expect to see 3, maybe 4 of some numbers, and only 80 or so different numbers. As your sample size approaches the pool size, then you start to see more multiples.

Mystic.5934:

there were 2 of a few of them. 9, to be specific. You are right, though, in a random situation, you would see some with 1, some with 2, some with 5, etc. What this tells me is that there are far more salvageable materials available in the pool than I observed.
For example, if you picked 20 random numbers from 1 to 100, you would expect 1, maybe 2 of 18ish different numbers. you wouldn’t expect 5 of one number. But if you picked 100 numbers, then you would expect to see 3, maybe 4 of some numbers, and only 80 or so different numbers. As your sample size approaches the pool size, then you start to see more multiples.

I should have looked here first. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Salvage_Item

Of the 42 basic salvage items that existed before Mawdrey II came along you have 25. Of the 6 that came since you have only 2, but you have four of one of them (the regurgitated mass, which I missed the first time, because it was unfamiliar and on the top line). So, not as suspicious as I first thought.

yeah, I also missed cloves and venom sac on the top line, near the right side. I tried to arrange it, but it was kinda havoc.
would you believe I started this experiment with only 4 bags empty? I was definitely not expecting the range of items it gives.