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:
The previous time it was indeed a stealth nerf, but this time it really seems to be just a RNG case
(haven’t noticed any visible change to ecto salvage myself, though i do salvage mostly exotics lately, due to low supply of dark matter)
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.
Well, only exotic boxes opened on a level 80 character give those, and when zergs are too big lot of people just don’t manage to get past the damage threshold, so both things are very possible, but are nothing that would suggest Anet messing with drop rates.
Actions, not words.
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What we do know is the last (major) patch did introduce dark glob and magic find essence to the salvage drop table, so there is a small possibility Anet’s high quality testing is at work here.
Really? I’ve been getting quite a few ectos recently. i’ve almost never farmed gold/exotics since the new patch and yet on almost all i get at least one ecto.
but hey, i may get down on my luck and not get any ectos soon. but ah well. that’s life.
Yup making the salvage rate at least 1 would be the best.
Honestly even though my salvage rate has been terrible for a while now its mostly just rng and like precursors some people will have good luck and others will not.
Making the salvage rate at least 1 would decrease the ecto price to what it was before the cof nerf and before the ascended weapon scam release
I don’t know about you guys but I see an increase of ecto rates. That being said, a thread like this pops up every week. They won’t touch the salvaging rates.
I did notice something interesting early on the salvaging cycle. The first 10 items produced 15 Ectos, the next 10 only 3. At 100 I had 88 Ectos. So sometimes the streaks can be extreme in the short run.
Edit: Made it clear that what I got very close to what I expected. Also made about 10g profit on a 30g investment.
As far as I know, salvaging ectos still results in t6 dust
there’s nothing wrong with salvaging rares or exotics either
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Remember guys, the one time people were actually right about ecto salvages, people were posting sample sizes of 4000+.
Would cost about 880g assuming each rare is about 22s each. Someone should do it :p
although seriously speaking the salvage rate should end up with either a profit or breaking near to even so if someone does spend the 880g to salvage 4000+ rares (oh forgot to factor in salvage kit costs) they probably wouldnt lose much.
Remember guys, the one time people were actually right about ecto salvages, people were posting sample sizes of 4000+.
Would cost about 880g assuming each rare is about 22s each. Someone should do it :p
although seriously speaking the salvage rate should end up with either a profit or breaking near to even so if someone does spend the 880g to salvage 4000+ rares (oh forgot to factor in salvage kit costs) they probably wouldnt lose much.
But unless you’re willing to do the test, you can’t make a point. People were doing these tests because they were so convinced something was up, and the test was done on video to have absolute results. Since, no one has done such tests which very much puts any theory to rest, until such test is performed.
One piece of evidence trumps all rumours in the world.
If I can’t play Guild Wars 2 at work, I won’t work in Guild Wars 2 either.
Delayed content is eventually good. Rushed content is eternally bad. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
I think part of the problem is RNG still has a chance for 0 drops for very important items at this point it should not be that way the lowest anyone should ever get from rares is 1 ecto 1 DM for rares and CERTAINLY for exotics!
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:
The previous time it was indeed a stealth nerf, but this time it really seems to be just a RNG case
(haven’t noticed any visible change to ecto salvage myself, though i do salvage mostly exotics lately, due to low supply of dark matter)
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.
Well, only exotic boxes opened on a level 80 character give those, and when zergs are too big lot of people just don’t manage to get past the damage threshold, so both things are very possible, but are nothing that would suggest Anet messing with drop rates.
I was thinking it may be more of a bug with the drops considering this has happened before in the past and mmo’s tend to have recurring bugs often even with the best of update systems in place.
There has been a bug where people just simply weren’t receiving anything from bosses and the threshhold in order to receive bronze status really isn’t that high even for The Temple of Lyssa event.
Surprised we made it to page two before someone cried “sample size!”.
Ever notice how the people claiming sample size matters always demand a sample size that is larger than anything done by the people they disagree with?
You could put up stats that support your view by salvaging 10,000 exotics, and they’d come back with “Sample size is too small, there are millions of players”, and so on.
Where are my gem sales? I want gem sales! Nerf EVERYTHING!
