Guild Wars 2

I want to salvage ~36s worth rare items + ~5s worth from runes. Is black lion kit increases chance for receive ecto or ammount of ectos? because I don’t see poit of using bl kits for cheap runes.

Black Lion kit has a 50% chance of salvaging rare items. That means Ectos. The amount of ectos you get has nothing to do with the salvage kit though. If you get any ectos you get between 1-3.

Plus you have 100% chance of recovering the runes.

I think consensus is that Ectos do NOT count as a “rare material” as far as salvage kits as concerned. When a kit says they have X% chance to give a “rare material”, they are talking about crafting materials that are 1 tier higher than you would normally get from the item. In most cases, this translates to getting Orichalcum Ore instead of Mithril Ore from salvaging Heavy Armor, Ancient Wood instead of Elder Wood etc.

Zaxares.5419:

I think consensus is that Ectos do NOT count as a “rare material” as far as salvage kits as concerned. When a kit says they have X% chance to give a “rare material”, they are talking about crafting materials that are 1 tier higher than you would normally get from the item. In most cases, this translates to getting Orichalcum Ore instead of Mithril Ore from salvaging Heavy Armor, Ancient Wood instead of Elder Wood etc.

I was salvaging white 80 lvl items with crude and I received ori and ancient so these materials aren’t rare too.

Psychol.5783:

Zaxares.5419:

I think consensus is that Ectos do NOT count as a “rare material” as far as salvage kits as concerned. When a kit says they have X% chance to give a “rare material”, they are talking about crafting materials that are 1 tier higher than you would normally get from the item. In most cases, this translates to getting Orichalcum Ore instead of Mithril Ore from salvaging Heavy Armor, Ancient Wood instead of Elder Wood etc.

I was salvaging white 80 lvl items with crude and I received ori and ancient so these materials aren’t rare too.

ALL salvage kits have a chance to return rare materials. Even Crude Salvage Kits can return Ori/Ancient, although apparently the chance is something like 1 – 5%. Evidently you can get Ectos from Rare items even using a Crude Salvage Kit, although nobody’s really been game enough to test it with a proper sample size.

Zaxares.5419:

ALL salvage kits have a chance to return rare materials. Even Crude Salvage Kits can return Ori/Ancient, although apparently the chance is something like 1 – 5%. Evidently you can get Ectos from Rare items even using a Crude Salvage Kit, although nobody’s really been game enough to test it with a proper sample size.

Sample size has nothing to do with the ability to receive ectos using crude kits. The ecto salvage rate, however, DOES depend on the sample size and the general consensus is that Master’s kits yield a 90%-ish ecto rate.

I believe wiki puts Black Lion Kit to 1.5 ectos per rare. I wouldn’t recommend buying them off the store though as I believe the exchange rate favors actually buying actual ectos with gems. However those gained as a leveling reward. Sure. I use them to salvage rares.

On a side note: This is sort of kick in the head for me currently as I salvaged six rares and got 2 ectos. I wouldn’t be so annoyed if those six rares weren’t the only rares within almost two months. Heh.