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Have we heard anything about how we get this other than it is from salvaging exotics? I am curious if it is going to be like ectos where you can get 0 or more than 1.

We’ll know tomorrow when we all start salvaging like a mad man.

Lol Yeah I bought some mats to craft some things but wondering if I should get more if it is a rare chance :P

jazzllanna.1278:

Lol Yeah I bought some mats to craft some things but wondering if I should get more if it is a rare chance :P

you are going to need to craft exo’s to get to 450 anyway :p

Good point.

Hoping for guaranteed drops off exotics for this material (the rest of the materials needed seem pretty reasonable, unsure about the dragonite/etc though), but nothing has been confirmed. 10 exotics per ascended weapon would already be significant, and it is going to suck pretty bad if it ends up requiring 20/40/… instead.

Yeh, it would suck hard if we end up having to salvage 20-30+ exotics.

At the least, I’m hoping they come off exotics at about the same rate ectos come off rares.

Lambent.6375:

Yeh, it would suck hard if we end up having to salvage 20-30+ exotics.

At the least, I’m hoping they come off exotics at about the same rate ectos come off rares.

Yeah that seems fair enough

Salvaged 4 exotics = 0 globs of dark matter

yeh droprate seems pretty low

i salvaged 8 lvl 80 exotics and nothing

and i used blskit for every exotic…

20 salvaged = 17 ecto and 31 dark matter

4 exos salvaged = 8 ectos 4 dark

PS We need a rich guy devoted to science to post a big batch

What kit are you guys using to salvage? Master’s? Is it worth a BLT kit if you have a bunch?

salved my former mf armor with mystic kits, 0 matter

I think there’s a question too as to whether Crafted exotics salvage for DM. Anybody know for sure yet?

Salvaged 7 exotics, only 3 dark matter
Used BLT kit

Brandt Tyler.1480:

I think there’s a question too as to whether Crafted exotics salvage for DM. Anybody know for sure yet?

Yes. Salvaged 7 exotics I made to get to 450 with a black lion kit, got 9 dark matter.

Looks like you only need 10 of them though. So if the drop rate is 0-3 per exotic that would be ok.

Salvaged 2 named exotics with black lion kit, got 3 dark matter. I’ve heard from my guild mates that dungeon token exotics have very low drop rate.

Salvaged 5 exotics with a black lion salvage kit, got 0 dark matter.

I’ve salvaged around 5 exotics with a master salvage kit and gotten 7 dark matter, just a matter of luck it seems.

Mystic Salvage Kit, 12 exotics, 1 dark matter. Huehue.

Salvaged around 20 exotics and got around 30 globs.

You can use stockpiled dungeon tokens (assuming you weren’t running around on the zerg train prior to this update) to buy exotics and salvage them but the drop rates are incredibly low.

Another reason why they should let us trade in our Badges of Honor for Dungeon tokens, we can’t salvage our WvW exotics and we don’t get to look pretty either

I used some of my black lion kits and got more matter. It says 50% chance of rare materials instead of 25%, for what it’s worth.

Xiao Haishou.3691:

Salvaged 7 exotics, only 3 dark matter
Used BLT kit

Ditto

Luckily today I found TWO exotics just playing the game normally with only 50% MF. One from a Bonus chest doing Temples… another just literally fell off some Crazed Windrider…

Plus when I checked the price of most Exotics (b/c I was already crafting some)… I noticed lots of them are only 1-2 gold right now and we know many low-demand ones averaged even less than that on the TP a few weeks ago.

So if their drop rate has indeed been tweaked up a little… then there shoudn’t be any problems here in the long run (despite T6’s still being hard to get)

Very sad to report:

about 50+ Exotics, 17 dark matter.

Used combo of mystic and BL, depends on rune/sigil.

15 salvages with mystic kit, 0 globs of dark matter

9 exotics + BL Salvage Kit = 12 globs of dark matter

mystic salvage kit → 10exo = 3 globs
black lion → 10exo- 11 globs
:O

black lion: 15 exotics=14 globs

24 exotics, black lion, 0 globs

Is there any difference in salvage rate between dungeon exotics, crafted exotics and named exotics? I salvaged 12 dungeon exotic armors just to get 4 globs, but when salvaged 2 named exotics i got 3 globs. I used black lion kit for all.

Mileinnor.7125:

Is there any difference in salvage rate between dungeon exotics, crafted exotics and named exotics? I salvaged 12 dungeon exotic armors just to get 4 globs, but when salvaged 2 named exotics i got 3 globs. I used black lion kit for all.

I salvaged 5 crafted exotics and got 3. Salvaged an old set of named armor (6) and got 13. BLK for all also. from what I have seen and heard it seems like there is a difference between crafted/dungeon and named.

Is it possible exotic weapons have an higher drop rate than other exotics?

Salvaged 17 level 80 exotics bows (Arc) and got 10 dark matter.
11x 0 globs
4x 1 globs
2x 3 globs

MarkPhilips.5169:

Is it possible exotic weapons have an higher drop rate than other exotics?

I dont think they do, the chance of Ecto is determined by the salvage kit. Which is 25% chance with a Master and 50% with Blacklion Salvage kit.

But Exotics do have a bigger range. Where Rare’s give 1-3 Ecto’s, Exotics give 1-5. So salvaging Exotics will result in more ecto’s, assuming a large enough sample size.

Terrahero.9358:

MarkPhilips.5169:

Is it possible exotic weapons have an higher drop rate than other exotics?

I dont think they do, the chance of Ecto is determined by the salvage kit. Which is 25% chance with a Master and 50% with Blacklion Salvage kit.

But Exotics do have a bigger range. Where Rare’s give 1-3 Ecto’s, Exotics give 1-5. So salvaging Exotics will result in more ecto’s, assuming a large enough sample size.

Exotics only give 0-3 ectos same as rares.

covenn.7165:

24 exotics, black lion, 0 globs

That’s interesting. Were all those 24 exotics level 80?

17 exotics and I got 4 Dark matter… thanks anet for the great balance

Salvaged 2 and got 6. I think I’m just lucky

pretty sure its rng, got 2 just from 1 exotic with master kit

Lutto.8745:

17 exotics and I got 4 Dark matter… thanks anet for the great balance

I’m with you. So far 18 exotics and 7 Dark Matter, not as bad as you but still crap.

For me its been almost the same as Ecto. I salvaged ~10 exotics and have 13 dark matter. I’m probably on the lucky side, but I figured I would post to let people know that there is a lucky side.

Also I have gotten 3 Dark Matter from two different exotics, so that can happen.

18 exos salvaged – 0 dark matter

Do you not get dark matter until you reach a crafting level of 450 ?

I decided to keep buying exotics from the TP and salvage them until I get my 10 globs. Used the X6-31 exotic harpoon gun for 1.4g with sigil of accuracy, resell for 60s.

Result: 1 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 3
Total cost ~ 8g. Mystic kit.

Sola.7250:

18 exos salvaged – 0 dark matter

Do you not get dark matter until you reach a crafting level of 450 ?

I salvaged some before I even went past 400.

I salvaged about 10-12 (forgot exact count) and got 7 dark matter.

Just wanted to add that today I got 2 globs of dark matter off of a lvl 75 exotic with a blsk. So it’s not just 80’s. I don’t know how low of a lvl it works, but I’m assuming similar to ectos.

So far my rng seems to be about 50% of the time I get a glob or 2, and 50% nothing.

Bite the bullet and buy a black lion. I was getting zero with my mystic. Got a black lion and was gettting 3 per exotic.