Guild Wars 2

I know you all must have noticed the sharp drop in ecto salvage rates , the question is stealth nerf or a bug.

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come to think of it, I have not a single ecto drop from salvaging for a while now -_-

Every time I have to take out an expensive sigil or rune, I use black lion and usually get 2-3 ecto.

it’s unanimous!

I’ve gotten 6 or 7 ecto from salvaging random rares that dropped today, one was even 3 from one, not seeing an issue.

Da Sonic.6521:

I’ve gotten 6 or 7 ecto from salvaging random rares that dropped today, one was even 3 from one, not seeing an issue.

some may still be unaffected , but I asked several zergs and the majority agree , something is up.

All I’ve noticed is sharper streaks. Like nothing x10. Or of 4×3 ectos. I haven’t calculated the average lately.

Edit: I should add that I salvage about 500 rares per week. Used to be a lot more though.

I can’t really say I’ve noticed a drop in the rate. I’ve been getting ecto pretty regularly.

we get this often, it’s RNG people.

RNG

Seems the same to me. You are just unlucky. Or it is a vast conspiracy, and you are one of the ones chosen to be slaves to us, the master race of ecto salvagers.

I’ve been salvaging a lot of rares with the Mystic Kit and out of 10 rares today I got 11 ectos.

Strange, when I last salvaged ecto I got a stupidly high salvage rate.

It was something like 9 ecto out of 5 rares.

This clearly means the rate has been buffed guys, my 5 rare test sample shows it

Seems the same to me, so either you’re unlucky, or your personal salvage rate got nerfed because you whined on the forums and made ANet angry.

RNG. How many rares have you salvaged anyway? 6 you got for world bosses that day? 5 you got from opening a bunch of champ bags?

That’s hardly a sample size.

I’ve gotten around 100 ectos in the last week.

i salvaged 20-30 rares a day using mystic salvage kit.my return rate is 1 etco per rare on average.

Seems about the same for me and I’ve been salvaging tons of rares lately. If it seems bad it’s probably RNG messing with you.

In the past two days I have acquired thirty rares. In turn, salvaging with a mystic forge kit, I’ve obtained twenty three ectos (of twenty salvages, the other ten rares were sold as is).

Basically, rng is rng. This is a nonstory.

People say the economy is managed well, then we have opaque changes to droprates behind-the-scenes. I don’t consider manipulation of supply as an indicator of a well-run economy – It’s a wise management of resources, but it certainly isn’t the free-market economy that most american players would believe themselves to be playing in.

Apologies for the lack of vocabulary flair in this post, I recognise and admit that I didn’t vary the language enough, resulting in many repeated words which make the sentences horrible to read.

Stealth nerf. Because why not?

Last two salvage runs of over 100 rares each I’m averaging 0.8 with master kits, a tad low but within acceptable statistical variation.

I salvage over 100 rares per day and didnt notice anything out of the ordinary.

The ecto salvage return rate is rather holy. John has stated time and again that if anything would change in the ecto salvage return rate, it would be announced in advance. If anything changed, it’s the sharper result streak ratio, as I stated above. Not much more in the overall results.

You have to realize at least 2 of these threads pop up every month. Only once was it justified. All the mass salvagers, including myself, then reported the same thing. This is not the case here. Not even close.

ummm…. heh …
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/did-Salvage-rate-of-ectos-get-stealth/first

..not sure what else to say..

Everytime someone salvages a rare and doesn’t get an ecto, they come to the forums and say that the droprates have been nerfed again. This has to stop

I got 2 ectos in 20 rares (Using BLSK)… I decided to never salvage again and sell all my rares…. kitten rng.

Since it is random, you could go a week without getting one if you are very unlucky or get a bunch every time you salvage a rare or exotic.

I salvage about 1000 rares yesterday and ratio is still about 0,9 ecto per rare so as usual.

Melfice.5091:

Everytime someone salvages a rare and doesn’t get an ecto, they come to the forums and say that the droprates have been nerfed again. This has to stop

Where’s the harm guaranteeing 1 ecto and then the rest as bonus?

Had no issues. Varies more than normal, but my average balances out. (approx 50 ectos from about 40 rares this week, which I’m happy with)

Once again, starting these threads is utterly meaningless w/o stats to back them up. Last time is happened, they were able to identify a bug because enough people put genuine stat info up and didnt just cry “conspiracy”.

Baoz.4735:

come to think of it, I have not a single ecto drop from salvaging for a while now -_-

Same here, thought i just had a string of bad luck.

Why can’t you just accept how RNG works instead of making speculations or even going as far as posting a speculation as a fact.

Normally I wouldn’t say anything about the ecto salvage rates because there is nothing wrong with them… But lately I’ve been getting 0 to 1 ecto each time I salvage a rare. Just yesterday I salvaged about 11 rares and only got 2 ectos from it using a mystic salvage kit. Rewind a little bit a week before that, and I was getting 3 ectos for every rare I salvaged. Something’s up.

I have to say this is just bad luck maybe. I salvage every rare and I’ve had lots of ectos drop in the last little while. Yesterday I got 9 ectos from 3 rares. Sometimes I get none. Just the way it goes.

yep, it’s RNG, and Anet is a pristine, pure, benevolent company that has never been proven to act questionably in their own favor. :roll eyes:

It depends on the character I use. The ones I play the most are the ones that are the most unlucky when salvaging. I like to think that they are cursed, and that it means I should level up another character

Johnson.3874:

It depends on the character I use. The ones I play the most are the ones that are the most unlucky when salvaging. I like to think that they are cursed, and that it means I should level up another character

As I mention here, I think characters have a hidden luck stat.

Available in gem store soon..

Eh, it’s usually 1:1 for me, I’ll have 4 with none and then the next two pop 3 usually.

It might have just been bad luck, but ive gotten zero ectos in the last 3-4 rares i salvaged using blc kits

well since I haven’t made nor received any rare drops lately I cannot comment however I can say that ever since the bug started where Ascalonian ghosts look like living breathing humans, drops seem to be not as fluid as they were when the patch started, something’s definitely going on here. Wish they’d hire someone to fix this problem once and for all, that would be the best birthday present ever! Never having an RNG loot issue again.

The reason I’m saying it’s happening again is due to the fact that on multiple occassions I’ve heard people talk in map chat where bosses don’t drop a single thing for them, champion bags don’t give them the new T7 resource at all when openned. It’s not just happening to me.

It took Anet quite a bit of time to admit it the last time the rates were changed. Surely I’m not the only one who remembers that.

Yes but then ALL the heavy salvagers were seeing it and ecto supply dropped off sharply.

Behellagh.1468:

Yes but then ALL the heavy salvagers were seeing it and ecto supply dropped off sharply.

And Anet jumped on the RNG bandwagon right off the bat, knowing they had made the changes. There is absolutely no reason what-ever to trust them to not tinker with the numbers again in order to change their financial numbers.

Don’t forget the MF account bound/soulbound debacle (think posts edited after the fact, etc), they’ve done a number of things that make them look shady and untrustworthy.

Back on topic, I just salvaged 5 level 80 rares with a Master’s kit and would typically get 3-4 ectos and it yielded zero. That’s a slight change don’t you think, especially as I’ve done nothing different with my account or items.

Don’t know about the ecto, just got 10 from 18 LvL 80 exotics, BUT, got ZERO Dark Matter using BLSK, so, I think there is a problem there.

yup rng sucks

salvage 8 rare helmets bought using hotw tokens : 7 ectos
salvaged 10 rare helmets bought using cof tokens : 6 ectos
salvaged 5 random rares from world events and dungeons : 3 ectos (2 from one and 1 from another)
^using masters

salvaged 10 exotics got dark matter from each cant remember how many and got ectos from all but i used black lion for those.

Neural.1824:

Behellagh.1468:

Yes but then ALL the heavy salvagers were seeing it and ecto supply dropped off sharply.

And Anet jumped on the RNG bandwagon right off the bat, knowing they had made the changes. There is absolutely no reason what-ever to trust them to not tinker with the numbers again in order to change their financial numbers.

Yes and no. Anet did jump on the RNG bandwagon and then they acknowledge a bug was introduced, because John Smith researched the problem and proved it wasn’t the RNG, and Anet fixed it in short order.

I’ll probably do another run tonight and see what I get.

Zoid.2568:

Stealth nerf. Because why not?

No stealth nerfs, I need my groupies to pass the second bridge in Sorrow’s Embrace without dying.