Guild Wars 2

I’ve already reached the 250 ectos I need for the gift of fortune, and after cashing in my CoF tokens, I have about 70 or so extra ectos just sitting around. At this point would it be better to salvage them for T6 dust and luck essences (I only have like 85-90% MF), or would it be better to just sell the ectos?

I’m thinking that salvaging would be a good idea because I still need about 130 crystalline dust, and this way I could probably get most or all of it that way, furthermore the TP tax would reduce the gain I’d receive from selling the ectos. Additionally I have several spare black lion kits, however I am reluctant to use them all on the ectos, as I like to keep some around for exotics and the guaranteed chance of recovering a sigil and the higher chance of getting inscriptions from dungeon exotics.

Anyway, what would you experienced people suggest?

oh! I have the numbers right there :P
37s25c ecto sale – buy dust for 40s98c = -3s73c to sell ecto and buy dust vs. -65c to salvage ecto into dust
so if you have ecto and need dust, salvaging the ecto is much better

Do you also have your mystic clovers?

Also I think masters salvage kits work work fine for salvaging ectos, not sure the “drop” rate on dust when salvaging on masters vs black lion kits though.

Edit: Just found this
It would appear that using the BLK offers .14 more of a chance to get dust than a masters. It is slightly more, but not enough for ME to use the BLKs when salvagin ectos.

Cost per luck when salvaging ectos compared to:
Luck from buy Ecto, sell Dust = 110 luck (buy ecto for 41s73c – 35s49c dust sale) = 5c.667 per luck
Luck from have Ecto, sell Ecto vs. sell Dust = 110 luck (37s25c ecto sale – 34s88c dust sale) = 2c.154 per luck
Luck from buy Ecto vs. buy Dust, use Dust = 110 luck (buy ecto for 41s73c – buy dust for 40s98c) = 0c.676 per luck

based on this, you would lose money no matter what you’re doing when you salvage an ecto. this is because you get something more out of it: luck. these amounts are lower than I’ve seen them, but they still aren’t profitable.
hmmmm. I just realized your scenario isn’t covered here. I’ll have to add a 4th category: have Ecto, sell Ecto and buy Dust vs. salvage Ecto and use Dust. that scenario might actually be profitable. I’ll get back to you.

Alright thanks for your advice guys

@pdavis, yeah I’ve had my clovers since july of last year 0_o but I quit gw2 from october 12th of 2013 to may 7th 2014 so that makes sense hahaha. Now I’m back and trying to rush finishing howler so I can make ascended everything else hahaha. Back when I last played I had so many money sink distractions from cultural armor, to living inside the SAB to investing in thousands of gossamer scraps only for them to tank.. But I’ve recovered from that. I have enough gold to either finish the gift of fortune or buy howl outright, but I’m probably going to get the gift of fortune first, and I’m trying to cut costs as much as possible.

@Mystic alright thanks for crunching the numbers for me! I basically want to know if salvaging ectos into dust is likely to be cheaper than selling the ecto and buying the dust outright.

Mystic.5934:

oh! I have the numbers right there :P
37s25c ecto sale – buy dust for 40s98c = -3s73c to sell ecto and buy dust vs. -65c to salvage ecto into dust
so if you have ecto and need dust, salvaging the ecto is much better

Ah thank you so much, that will save me a pretty decent amount in acquiring the remaining dust I need!

If you have an Ecto, you can list it to make 36s05c net (after TP tax).

You can also salvage the Ecto for 1.8 (approximately: based on limited wiki data across all kit types) Crystalline Dust.
To buy 1.8 Crystalline Dust matching the highest buy order, it would cost you 39s43c.

Essentially, you save 3s37c every time you salvage an Ecto you have versus selling the Ecto and buying Crystalline Dust.

Whoops! Looks like Mystic beat me to it. Didn’t see that since it got moved to the top as the answer lol.