Guild Wars 2

I was talking to a few people in and out of game.

I’ve been salvaging a lot of a rares lately, and I haven’t been getting nearly as many ectos. I’ve been hearing from others as well.

It’s probably just a streak of bad luck; I myself had a bad streak last night where I salvaged 5 Rares and only got 1 Ecto. If it doesn’t go away in, like, a few days to a week, then something’s probably up.

This thread again?

If you salvaged any less than 5 figures, you have no claim.

I got 15 ecto from 10 rares…so I guess I’m getting yours right now.

RNG is RNG is RNG. You just are having a bad streak, it will break eventually.

Danasseus Kaltvonin.9827:

I was talking to a few people in and out of game.

I’ve been salvaging a lot of a rares lately, and I haven’t been getting nearly as many ectos. I’ve been hearing from others as well.

Those people out of the game should really be a good reference for the ecto salvage rate.

I’m disappointed that back last year, John Smith admitted that the ecto rate was bugged and had been accidently nerfed.

In a way, I respect the transparency, but darn, it would have been so much easier if they just steathily changed it back.

Now, we have weekly threads on bad ecto salvage rates and will continue to get them for the foreseeable future.

Lucey.1452:

I got 15 ecto from 10 rares…so I guess I’m getting yours right now.

RNG is RNG is RNG. You just are having a bad streak, it will break eventually.

why do people always say it 3 times instead of 2? that sentence makes no sense: random number generation is random number generation is random number generation.

probable reasons why you have been getting less ectos:
1) you’re salvaging things that don’t give ectos, such as level 65 rare dungeon armor.
2) low sample size. salvaging 10 level 68+ rares will give 0.875 ectos ON AVERAGE, but there’s still a pretty high percent chance to get 7, 6, 5, or even 4 or lower. As someone else said; you need much higher sample size to make that claim (3 digits minimum to suggest it, 4 would be compelling, 5 would be convincing, 6 would be proof)
3) RNG
4) you forgot to sacrifice the quaggan to the ecto gods.

Vol.7601:

I’m disappointed that back last year, John Smith admitted that the ecto rate was bugged and had been accidently nerfed.

In a way, I respect the transparency, but darn, it would have been so much easier if they just steathily changed it back.

Now, we have weekly threads on bad ecto salvage rates and will continue to get them for the foreseeable future.

You neglect to mention that Anet first stated that everything was fine and there was no error.

Players don’t trust Anet for good reason.

Salvaged 150 rares, 143 ecto. Seems to be working normally.

Small sample, RNG = RNG, etc, etc. Seriously, these threads have got to stop.

Well i can tell you its bad luck.I get it a lot.My solution is,at the start if the day i start breaking rares,if i get 2-3 ectos from the first 3 breaks i keep on salvaging,if i get 0 i stack them and break them another day.Do the same.Its as if RNG resets daily for my account.Some days i get many ectos some others i get none