Guild Wars 2

So, I’ve been playing a TON of Southsun Survival and salvaging the rare I get every six games… typically I get between 1 and 3 ectos using a Black Lion Salvage Kit.

Now, I know RNG is RNG, however, the last 7 salvages I have done have returned ZERO ectos… is this normal? Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

Just seems like quite a waste of the salvage kit… thankfully it came from a chest I opened with a key I did not actually pay for.

I only ask because I remember reading a while ago that the ecto salvage rates were broken and just wanted to see if anyone else had the same issue.

If not, I guess the RNG is just hating me currently!

The salvage rate for a master salvage kit close enough to the black lion salvage kit that I prefer to use the master kit myself. Unless I really want the sigil/rune.

I believe the rates are around .9 ectos per salvage with the master and 1.2 ectos per salvage per black lion salvage kit. Not worth it, in my opinion.

Yea, I have been reading about the kits and found out those numbers as well.

I am only using the BLSK because it was free, so why not use it for the greater ecto chance.

I only made this thread because I wanted to see if there maybe was an issue, though it probably is just a bad RNG run. Though right now this is happening both to me and my partner.

I just figured if the BLSKs have a >1 chance of an ecto having 7 salvages in a row with zero ectos is just frustrating!

7 salvages is too small a sample size

Yea, from reading I have determined that.. as I said it probably is jut RNG being RNG.

Statistics is not my strong suit I guess… just because BLSK’s have a >1 return on ecto does not mean every salvage will return at least one, even if that was my initial impression.

So learn something new every day!

Don’t waste BL kits on rares, its worthless. Actually, mystic kit its excellent for salvage on rares.

About topic, have to awnsers:

1: Yes, RNG is kidding with you
2: I have a feeling that do the same thing many times in a row, lower the chances to good things. This happens when I’m playing with rares in TP.

Well with the last two uses of my kit I finally got some ectos again, but that was a run of 10 uses without any ectos. Now I am down to Mystic Salvage Kits.

I only used the BLSK because I got it for free so figured why not use it for the slightly greater chance at ectos and for the guaranteed return of the sigil/runes.

I was using black lion salvage kits too! But then when i was running out i was trying the mystic forge salvage kits. And that just did wonders with my rate of ectos. Lots of time i get x3.. prob just luck

Yeah if you have 3 mystic forge stones make a mystic salvage kit.

The cost per salvage of a mystic salvage kit is ~8 copper if my math is correct.

Just use mystic/master salvage kit. Only ever use BLSK if you have old exo gear you don’t use anymore which has valuable upgrades (e.g. ruby jewels, scholar runes, traveler runes etc. etc.)

Deamhan.9538:

Yeah if you have 3 mystic forge stones make a mystic salvage kit.

The cost per salvage of a mystic salvage kit is ~8 copper if my math is correct.

I am pretty sure that everyone in the game has mystic forge stones by now… considering they give them out like candy with the achievement chests!

Should I get another BLSK I will probably save it for salving runes/sigils instead of ectos!

Thanks everyone for your comments, I posted mostly to vent about being frustrated about my bad luck with the RNG, but there is some great advice here too!

We have been told explicitly that any change to ecto salvage rates will be announced.

Check spidy price graph – if it isn’t spiking one way or the other, then no, the rate has not change