Guild Wars 2

So I notice my Master’s salvage kit rarely gives me more than one ecto when salvaging. However the BLSK often gives me two or three ectos.

I mentioned this in guild chat and someone said “yeah it’s a known issue…”, but I cannot find anything about it in these forums.

Is it a known issue?

If the answer is ‘yes’ then I’m going to be pretty bent because I’ve been salvaging away trying to get ectos for clovers. I don’t like wasting my time and the RNG is already making a good go of that. Maybe add a wiki page of “known issues” for GW2 so I don’t have to find out I’m screwed after the fact.

I do not have the ecto data on hand, but I have read (and seen the data) on the forums many times that, with a master salvage kit, you’ll get an average return of 1 ecto per 1 rare you salvage.

So no, master salvage kits are not broken.

Also, BLSKs have twice the chances of getting ecto from rares, so I hope you’d get more ecto using one.

It’s 25% vs 50% salvage chance for rares. That doesn’t imply that actually getting the rares would result in different quantities.

It looks to me like the BLSK are 4x better than Master because you have 2x the chance for rares and when you get the rares you get 2x as many. Sorry but that sounds broken or bugged.

BLSK are 2x better than master, as you said 25% vs 50%. I have no clue where you’re getting 4x better from.

I might add that I’ve gotten 0 ecto from 10 exotics salvaged with a BLSK. I could then extrapolate they are broken due to my extremely small salvage pool and come here on the forums raging, or realize that RNG is RNG and move on.

the extra 2x is because the BLSK is dropping 2 and 3 ectos more often then the Master salvage kit drops 2 and 3 ectos — when both drop ecto.

The chance (25 or 50) should be the chance of getting any ectos. The BLSK should drop ectos twice as often as MSK. That is not the same as dropping 2x as many ectos when ectos actually do drop.

I suspect the point you’re trying to make is that given 12 salvages with both MSK and BLSK, ectos will fall the same number of times out of the 12, but the BLSK will drop 2x as many ectos for those same number of drops.

And there ya go:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2013-05-30

The chance of getting an ectoplasm is it’s own loot table, not a “rarer crafting material”. You can’t say that a BLSK has a 2x chance of getting an ecto than a MSK because the BLSK has a 50% chance of rarer crafting mats and the MSK has a 25%.

The rarer crafting mats is in regards to T(n) vs T(n+1) where T = tier and N = item levels natural tier rarity (level 80 is tier 5, not 6).

juno.1840:

And there ya go:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2013-05-30

As Juno said, it was a bug and a patch was put in to correct it.