Guild Wars 2

First of let me gues what some of you are going to say – I can’t get Salvaged Excellence thus I’m whining on the forum.
No not even close I already have that achievement so you can accuse me of bragging if anything.
So now someone will say – oh but you bought the Salvaged Excellence you poor sucker.
No I did not………..
Ok fine for those who are so curious about how I did it I will add the so very interesting story about it in part 2 of this post.

Ok as far as “Ascended Recycling” goes the main problem is Salvaged Excellence which we get from salvaging ascended amulets which can be hard to get.
However the main method of getting them is Laurels which are time gated and most people don’t want to waste them on Amulets. Hence the problem gets even worse as amulets are mostly bought when they are actually needed. Which causes the price of the Salvaged Excellence to be so high even more.
So I propose an additional method of getting them – for Fractal Research Page’s
like say 28 which is equivalent to 1 journal. Currently the pages do not have any use apart from being one of the currencies in buying ascended weapon/armor chests.
However they do not have any real use alone and each chest requires at least 100g in additional fees (price of matrixes included). So that would give them some use without any other currencies involved. Also amulets are in fact the only ascended gear we CANNOT get from doing FOTM. We can even get trinckets as a rare drop and back items for the relics but never amulets.
And honestly this is nothing ridiculous as currently we can get 3 pages daily which would give 3 amulets every 4 weeks. Which is not far from daily rewards as we can get 2-3 amulets with laurels every 4 weeks.

Oh you are still here eh? So you want to hear the story of how I finished this collection eh? Let me guess? In hopes of repeating the process and getting it too? Ok I will even add a screenshot to prove it as you probably will not believe the last part.
Well the story begins not long after ascended salvaging was made available.
A guild mate of mine proposed I and others should salvage an ascended back item to see what I will get. Then I noticed it costs 1g per salvage but I decided I will try anyway.
And my very first ascended salvage amazingly gave me the Salvaged Dignity.
Which was worth a lot more back then but later dropped so I decided to eat it in the end. After some time doing daily fractals I got a Salvaged Grandeur from one of the rings I got. And some time later Salvaged Greatness from one of the armor pieces I got which I salvage when I get too many pieces of same kind.
After some time I decided I will have a go at salvaging amulets but laureles were too slow obviously. And many amulets I got from HoT I couldn’t salvage so the only option for me was doing Silverwastes meta for Bandit Crests. And so I did that and after I was done I had enough for 20 amulets. However due to some waste-brain idea I got I bought 10 Wynne’s Locket’s and intended to buy 10 Jurah’s Jewel’s. But instead of 10 Jurah’s Jewel’s I bought Caithe’s Blossom’s which are accessories not amulets.
So after calling myself a moron a few times and having no going back now I salvaged all of them. And moments later I was euphoric as not only did I get Salvaged Excellence but also Salvaged Brilliance which I was also missing.
So then I was only missing Salvaged Puissance which I bought for a paltry 46 silver.
As ironically I would never salvage ascended weapons yet it appears to be a common practice among GW2 players.
Now how did I luck out there on Salvaged Excellence and Salvaged Puissance I have no idea. Maybe because I flushed a lot of rares and exotics that day as I kept all my Nightmare keys and bags of rare gear for my “salvage day”. So perhaps RNGesus decided that after flushing a whole armory down the toilet I finally deserved some fortune. So yeah thats pretty much the story of how I got my Fractal Reliquary I hope you enjoyed this boring yet dramatic story and the screenshot.

Aside from Laurels my plan is to buy additional amulets from Ember Bay and salvage.

If I understand the OP’s post correctly, they got lucky in getting Salvaged Excellence. I’m not sure why that matters — we already know that the achievement is a gold sink for the very rich (or the very lucky who are rich enough already).