The Glob -> Dust salvage fix is a very clever and excellent solution to the problems we were seeing with T6, Lodestone, and Ecto prices, and I’d like to sincerely thank ANet for stepping up and introducing it.
Ectos are one of the easiest high-end resources to obtain, with around 10 daily chests per character with high drop rates (plus the bonus chests that always reward rares+) in addition to normal drops from mobs. Using this as a resource to obtain the material needed to turn T5 -> T6 and Cores -> Lodesetones means we have a readily farmable means of turning the more common drop into the rare. This does exactly what many people complain about being unable to do – allows more consistent farming of T6 and Lodes.
Requiring that it goes through ectos is clever because of the obvious fix to the dropping ecto rate, while still pushing players to do the content that requires groups.
Finally, in a related change, Karka Queen chest as non-daily will help keep players in the area to loot the chest more and should help that fire off and keep providing good returns on Karka Shells and rares+.
Thanks for the fix, guys! It’s nice to not have to feel so reliant on boring CoF grinding for money or RNG of T6 in order to work towards Legendaries, etc. I’m glad I continue what I’m doing and feel like I’m constantly making progress!
I admit the solution caught me by surprise, but in hindsight it’s a very clever one, as it will help keep Ecto demand stable to account for the increased amount of Rares flooding into the market from World Bosses.