I’m sorry I couldn’t do more but I’m not that rich lol.
Some quick facts during:
These rares were Armor only
Level 80 only
200 rares (about 48g total)(24s each average)
Done with 0MF
Done all at once with no logging, same character.
I’m hoping to do a Master Salvage Kit comparison sometime. But for now just wanted to show people what 200 rares got me. Hope this helps give an idea of an average, again sorry I couldn’t do more.
200 times = 8 BL salvage kit, and = 2400 Gems, and = 48 Golds… (1 Gold for 50 Gems)
Did I mistake?
My actual BL kits are from BL chest rewards. I’m assuming people would be using free ones from rewards etc to get ectos, and thus the results may help them decide. But like I said I haven’t done Master Kits yet, that’s the real result I’m after. Just wanted to post results so far.
But yes BL kits come in stacks of 25 so 25×8. And at 300 gems each X8, yes 2400gems would be correct. If I bought them like that.
48g was the cost of 200 rares at an average of 24s each.
I didn’t start this test until I had a large some of kits (and gold obviously..) ^^
I ended up with about 68g in the end, but this wasn’t for profit, was just to give results to the community.
Some people say the chance of ecto does not increase with the kit used. If only someone will try this with crude salvage kit!
“We just don’t want players to grind in GW2” – C. Johanson “it doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun, rather than having fun”
Guild missions say otherwise.
Some people say the chance of ecto does not increase with the kit used. If only someone will try this with crude salvage kit!
Lol.. no way… Yea, thats part of what this was for. I’ll try Master kits next when I get a chance, unless someone beats me to it. But they better have visual proof as well heh.
Problem with Master Kits is they aren’t free like the BL kits were for me lol.. If I did the math right I think 8 Master kits is 1g 22s 88c.
I’ve gone from using BL kits (ran out) to Mystic, and there is a definite drop in Ectos. With BLSK (a good 6 of them total), I could count on both hands how many times I didn’t get get an Ecto.
Now it’s more like a 20% chance I get nothing. I’ve only gotten three ectos twice in about 50 rares. I should probably save my rares for when I get another BLSK. Probably barely breaking even using a Mystic that cost a pretty penny to make in the first place.
Some of the rares didn’t have upgrades, I take it?
Yes definitly. The ideal way to have done this would have been:
Grab lowest cost rares with upgrades that are maximum of 24s and no more.
Have entirely free Black Lion Salvage kits.
Or even better farm 200 rares, get 8 stacks of free kits. ^^
But alas.. I didn’t have time or patience for that :P
Didn’t wanna leave out my die-hard disbelievers by not providing visual proof like I always do ^^ So this is for them Not directed toward anyone, just doing a preemptive post heh.
Some of the rares didn’t have upgrades, I take it?
Yes definitly. The ideal way to have done this would have been:
Grab lowest cost rares with upgrades that are maximum of 24s and no more.
Have entirely free Black Lion Salvage kits.
Or even better farm 200 rares, get 8 stacks of free kits. ^^
But alas.. I didn’t have time or patience for that :P
I only noticed because the Kits should return an upgrade 100% of the time . . . and you didn’t have 200 upgrades. Which made me wonder what the heck happened . . . then I recalled picking up some rares in Fractals which had no upgrades
Seeking assistants for the Asuran Catapult Project. Applicants will be tested for aerodynamics.
Some of the rares didn’t have upgrades, I take it?
Yes definitly. The ideal way to have done this would have been:
Grab lowest cost rares with upgrades that are maximum of 24s and no more.
Have entirely free Black Lion Salvage kits.
Or even better farm 200 rares, get 8 stacks of free kits. ^^
But alas.. I didn’t have time or patience for that :P
I only noticed because the Kits should return an upgrade 100% of the time . . . and you didn’t have 200 upgrades. Which made me wonder what the heck happened . . . then I recalled picking up some rares in Fractals which had no upgrades
Yea sorry about that lol. Like I said it would have been best to do it that way, especially monetarily. 200 upgrades is always better than 157 haha.
Some of the rares didn’t have upgrades, I take it?
Yes definitly. The ideal way to have done this would have been:
Grab lowest cost rares with upgrades that are maximum of 24s and no more.
Have entirely free Black Lion Salvage kits.
Or even better farm 200 rares, get 8 stacks of free kits. ^^
But alas.. I didn’t have time or patience for that :P
I only noticed because the Kits should return an upgrade 100% of the time . . . and you didn’t have 200 upgrades. Which made me wonder what the heck happened . . . then I recalled picking up some rares in Fractals which had no upgrades
Yea sorry about that lol. Like I said it would have been best to do it that way, especially monetarily. 200 upgrades is always better than 157 haha.
. . . I would have chuckled all of them into the Forge. I’ve had decent luck with that lately, not so much with chucking in the blue junk. I started selling them again. sigh.
Seeking assistants for the Asuran Catapult Project. Applicants will be tested for aerodynamics.
Some of the rares didn’t have upgrades, I take it?
Yes definitly. The ideal way to have done this would have been:
Grab lowest cost rares with upgrades that are maximum of 24s and no more.
Have entirely free Black Lion Salvage kits.
Or even better farm 200 rares, get 8 stacks of free kits. ^^
But alas.. I didn’t have time or patience for that :P
I only noticed because the Kits should return an upgrade 100% of the time . . . and you didn’t have 200 upgrades. Which made me wonder what the heck happened . . . then I recalled picking up some rares in Fractals which had no upgrades
Yea sorry about that lol. Like I said it would have been best to do it that way, especially monetarily. 200 upgrades is always better than 157 haha.
. . . I would have chuckled all of them into the Forge. I’ve had decent luck with that lately, not so much with chucking in the blue junk. I started selling them again. sigh.
Lol well if you would like to donate about 50g, I’ll gladly do a Mystic Forge Rare test :P
I’d find that just as interesting, its too bad I don’t have like 300 gold, I’d test everything for fun haha. Maybe someday.. Someday! But then people will say “Why didn’t you just start your legendary?”, and I’ll have to do that too..
Some of the rares didn’t have upgrades, I take it?
Yes definitly. The ideal way to have done this would have been:
Grab lowest cost rares with upgrades that are maximum of 24s and no more.
Have entirely free Black Lion Salvage kits.
Or even better farm 200 rares, get 8 stacks of free kits. ^^
But alas.. I didn’t have time or patience for that :P
I only noticed because the Kits should return an upgrade 100% of the time . . . and you didn’t have 200 upgrades. Which made me wonder what the heck happened . . . then I recalled picking up some rares in Fractals which had no upgrades
Yea sorry about that lol. Like I said it would have been best to do it that way, especially monetarily. 200 upgrades is always better than 157 haha.
. . . I would have chuckled all of them into the Forge. I’ve had decent luck with that lately, not so much with chucking in the blue junk. I started selling them again. sigh.
Lol well if you would like to donate about 50g, I’ll gladly do a Mystic Forge Rare test :P
I’d find that just as interesting, its too bad I don’t have like 300 gold, I’d test everything for fun haha. Maybe someday.. Someday! But then people will say “Why didn’t you just start your legendary?”, and I’ll have to do that too..
I can’t really donate the gold. Alas, the guild gets it first until we get to Guild Missions. :P
I could always donate rares but . . .
Seeking assistants for the Asuran Catapult Project. Applicants will be tested for aerodynamics.
Some of the rares didn’t have upgrades, I take it?
Yes definitly. The ideal way to have done this would have been:
Grab lowest cost rares with upgrades that are maximum of 24s and no more.
Have entirely free Black Lion Salvage kits.
Or even better farm 200 rares, get 8 stacks of free kits. ^^
But alas.. I didn’t have time or patience for that :P
I only noticed because the Kits should return an upgrade 100% of the time . . . and you didn’t have 200 upgrades. Which made me wonder what the heck happened . . . then I recalled picking up some rares in Fractals which had no upgrades
Yea sorry about that lol. Like I said it would have been best to do it that way, especially monetarily. 200 upgrades is always better than 157 haha.
. . . I would have chuckled all of them into the Forge. I’ve had decent luck with that lately, not so much with chucking in the blue junk. I started selling them again. sigh.
Lol well if you would like to donate about 50g, I’ll gladly do a Mystic Forge Rare test :P
I’d find that just as interesting, its too bad I don’t have like 300 gold, I’d test everything for fun haha. Maybe someday.. Someday! But then people will say “Why didn’t you just start your legendary?”, and I’ll have to do that too..
I can’t really donate the gold. Alas, the guild gets it first until we get to Guild Missions. :P
I could always donate rares but . . .
I know how that is :P I actually funded my personal guild all the way up minus pvp and guild missions. Someday I might just toss on ever buff and play for 48 hours straight lols I’m still debating whether to spend the 68 g or not..
Don’t level 68 rares give out the same amount of ectos as level 80 ones?
I used my story key, got a salvage kit, bought a bunch of level 68 rares and turned 1g into like four. Nice start point.
I think they might, but people have theories on that as well, and clearly I’m not a billionaire :P I’d love to try every level but yea, maybe when I’m able to purchase 4 legendarys I’ll go for it heheh The 80’s were just to keep the level the same so there was less variables.
I’m sorry I couldn’t do more but I’m not that rich lol.
Some quick facts during:
These rares were Armor only
Level 80 only
200 rares (about 48g total)(24s each average)
Done with 0MF
Done all at once with no logging, same character.
I’m hoping to do a Master Salvage Kit comparison sometime. But for now just wanted to show people what 200 rares got me. Hope this helps give an idea of an average, again sorry I couldn’t do more.
Thanks for the experiment! Would love to see the Master Kit comparison!
I’m sorry I couldn’t do more but I’m not that rich lol.
Some quick facts during:
These rares were Armor only
Level 80 only
200 rares (about 48g total)(24s each average)
Done with 0MF
Done all at once with no logging, same character.
I’m hoping to do a Master Salvage Kit comparison sometime. But for now just wanted to show people what 200 rares got me. Hope this helps give an idea of an average, again sorry I couldn’t do more.
Thanks for the experiment! Would love to see the Master Kit comparison!
Not directed toward anyone, just doing a preemptive post heh.