Guild Wars 2

Not sure what happen to the last thread that had a dev answering the question regarding rare salvage for ecto. anywho I think there maybe a bug. Noticing that I’m not getting any ecto as I used too. It is mostly T6 mat from salvage, and if there is it probably be 1 ecto at most, sorry to repost an old thread. anyone else getting more than 1 ecto from salvage?

Salvaged 102 rares last night, got 92 ectos out of it with master kits. Night before did 125 and got 110 ectos out of it with master kits.

Working normally for me.

Not me. I have been getting 1 – 3 ectos from rares. I am currently using Black lions salvage kits but i am sure there is nothing wrong with it. You might just be unlucky.

I’m greatly amazed at how we get one topic per week about this.

They stated they made no change and there is no bug. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ecto-Drop-Rate/first

Although I have to believe them (at least I think they don’t dare to directly lie to us) I have some very bad results at the moment, so I will not salvage my items for a while.
That doesn’t have to make much sense for anyone but me. ^^

I’ve had bad days and good days. Yesterday was a really really good day. Today….not so much.

There was that unexpected bug a short while back where Rares were not giving back as many Ectos as they should. ANet does make mistakes, so it’s good to keep an open mind about these complaints. However, that time they had concrete data (a sudden and unexpected drop in Ecto supply) to back it up. So far the data on GW2Spidy doesn’t back up a case for a return of the bug.

I thought the same for a couple days, but it turns out it was just a streak of bad luck for me. I’m back to getting 3 ectos per salvage

Master salvage another 63 rares earlier this evening, 57 ectos. Now during the salvaging process I certainly had runs with few ectos. But then getting a couple of three ectos with one salvage brings the overall average back up rather quickly.

Remember getting close to the established average is easier with large samples than small ones. Streaks, lucky and unlucky, will tend to cancel each other out. But because we are dealing with randomness, there’s still an outside chance with big samples to get poor or incredible results.