Guild Wars 2

Did they up the rate you get them per ring you salvage? I salvaged like 40 rings at HoT launch feels like I got way less compared to the ring I just did now which gave me 15 SM.

It hasn’t been touched, but it’s heavily dictated by RNG. You just got lucky.

Rising Dusk.2408:

It hasn’t been touched, but it’s heavily dictated by RNG. You just got lucky.

That’s some insane rng then. After fractal reward adjustment I get like 3 times more matrices per ring.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

That’s some insane rng then. After fractal reward adjustment I get like 3 times more matrices per ring.

Remember that infused rings give two rolls on the table. I still average to around ~3 matrices per roll overall after having salvaged several dozen since patch.

As above posters have said it’s all RNG, I’ve seen a few people say they think the average is around 3 matrices per salvage but i’ve seen no data to back it up. I personally have gotten 20 matrices from a single salvage a couple times, which I think is pretty lucky. Funnily enough it’s actually similar to how encryptions used to be, where the average return was decent but if you didn’t hit the big reward that often then the returns might take a while to pan out. Except 3 stabilizing matrices is worth less than a gold at this point so maybe it isn’t worth it =P

I salvaged like 10 amulets and didn’t get a single ball of dark energy :/

They definitely nerfed the rate of that item or my rng is that bad.

I have salvaged 9 rings so far and I have only received SM from them. Something seriously needs to be done about the Ball of Dark Energy salvage rate.

Can you even get ball of dark energy from rings? It never even occurred to me that that might be an option. I and many others I know have salvaged waaaaay more than 9 rings and have never gotten ball of dark energy. If it’s possible the chance must be obscenely low.

The ascended amulet salvage data on the wiki has 1/8 chance to get ball of dark energy from amulets, though the sample size is really small (64) and I think the chance is actually lower than that, maybe 1/10? Anyway, even with a 1/8 chance to get ball of dark energy, your chance of not getting one from 10 amulet salvages is 26.3%, a far cry from a statistical anomaly. Salvaging ascended armor and weapons has always been the more cost effective way to go, since the ball of dark energy is guaranteed.

There is nothing wrong with the ball of dark energy salvage rate.

Energy balls come from other asc than rings

I haven’t salvaged too many rings yet. But I too am getting the feeling that the rate averages out to around 3 per.

If that’s the case, then given that rings only ever salvage into Stabilizing Matrices, and the current market value is slightly less than 1/3 the cost of the salvage tool… then it doesn’t seem worthwhile to salvage rings over the long term.

So it looks like we’re right back where we were before salvaging was added: might as well just sell them to the merchant for a few silver.

I always end up with better rewards than selling the SMs when salvaging the ring and using them for keys to open encryptions. Always! – Post-Patch!
So, I disagree that it isn’t worth to salvage rings.