Guild Wars 2

I believe there was a thread with data on salvaging crystalline dust from ectos, but I can’t seem to find it, so I’m going to post a few questions.

1. Did salvage kit make a difference in the rate?
2. What was the salvage rate?

Thanks in advance.

And this is the thread I found for that post here

The consensus at that time was master salvage kits.

Using master kits I averaged:

1.912 Dust per Glob of Ectoplasm, with a minimum of 1 and maximum of 5.
103.44 Luck per Glob of Ectoplasm, with a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 600.

Sample size of one stack (250) of ectos.

There’s basically no way a Black Lion Kit can be profitable at current prices and I haven’t felt the need to check the lower tier kits.

It’s a one-inflated Poisson distribution, which is why your average is 1.91. It’s not an equal probability between those counts.

For example, my small sample data yesterday was 1,1,1,1,1,2,3

Unless they include a progressive rng element to the code, the fact that 2 and 3 are at the end of the series is just rng. It could have been 1,1,3,1,2,1,1

Anyway, the legendary part of my legendary attempt was world completion. I gave up after that. Farming that much gold, salvaging that much gold (ectos), and feeling compelled to break down and spend real money….isn’t all that legendary. The crystalline dust is where they get you. At the end of world completion, I had 15 of them to my name. 15! Yet, 500 are needed. And with the low drop rate, you would hit DR faster than you would make much progress trying to farm them.

(And, no, transmuting them right now is actually a loss…the forum says 40 but the footnote says 1-40….this appears to be a normal distribution…at the end of the day you are getting about 20 per mystic forge, which is a loss in terms of materials.)

most other people’s estimates for getting dust from ectos state 1.9 dust per ecto using master salvage kit.
personally, I use 1.8 for deciding if I’ll salvage or not. I was skeptical of the 1.9 number, so I did 1,000 salvages (4 stacks of ectos) and got about 1,820 dust from it.

I’m a pessimist. I use 1.7. Never bought into the 2 per number that was tossed about when ecto to dust was first introduced.

My stats:
1.9 for master/mystic salvage kits, 2.1 for bltc salvage kits.

Same fore rares → ectos
0.9 for master/mystic kits, 1.1 for bltc kits.