Guild Wars 2

Dee Jay.2460:

ColinJohanson.2394:

Nothing about ecto drop rates has changed what so ever, we’d make sure to call this out if it was changed.

The double RNG of finding a rare item only to get nothing out of it is really poor design. One lair of RNG…finding the actual rare…should be enough to ensure at least one Ectoplasm.

I’d much rather have rares give at least 1 Ecto 100% of the time than having a 10% chance to get 3 as well as a 20% chance to get nothing.

Then sell your rares and buy ectos. Or, just sell your rares.

Every week, another one of these pops up.

It’s really nice that the devs are officially commenting on these threads, given that they’ve given the same response more times than I can count now.

Ectoplasm salvage rates are not nerfed. They are random. When you salvage 10 items, yes, a string of bad luck can feasibly leave you with a very poor rate of return. If you salvage 100 items, it’ll look a little bit more normal as the 3-ecto salvages balance out the weak stretches.

If you salvage >1000 items, you’ll see that the rate settles down to (at least from my data) about 0.87 ectoplasms per rare, using a mystic salvage kit, on rares 68+.

That was my approximate result in October, when I first starting salvaging mass quantities of rares as part of my routine, and that is my current rate now.

I thought it was just me, but my Black Lion salvaging kit used to give me at least an ecto 4 out of 5 salvages and now it’s like 1 out of 5. So I’m thinking to myself, wtf, did they stealth nerf salvaging ectos because I didn’t see an update and then I hear someone in LA ask why ecto prices went up? Something happened because I’ve been playing since release and I just started noticing this last week.

I don’t think this is bad luck, something happened with the game code that needs to be looking at IMO. (Unless there is some sort of account wide DR that kick in once you salvage a certain number of rares and exotics over the lifetime on your account)

I briefly mentioned this on another post today.
Saturday 8 rares converted to 18 ectos ( first 4 rares i recieved 12 ectos)
Thats the best conversion i have had.
My worst is 1 ecto from 10 rares in one day.
It is swings and roundabouts, good days bad days, it’s human nature to remember the bad ones, my motto is it’s another day tomorrow maybe i will get luckier.
So Good luck to all you salvagers just keep at it.

There are so many incorrect theories in this thread that I feel I should help set things straight.

1. The ecto salvage rate has not changed since release.

2. Magic find does not affect salvage results.

3. Inconsistent short-term results are consistent with random chance.

That is all.

It is just you.

Every time someone comes to the forums and posts this: it’s just them, too.

EnemyCrusher.7324:

There are so many incorrect theories in this thread that I feel I should help set things straight.

1. The ecto salvage rate has not changed since release.

2. Magic find does not affect salvage results.

3. Inconsistent short-term results are consistent with random chance.

That is all.

Of course, and you forgot to mention that Mystic Forge is NOT affected by diminishing returns hehe

I used to get between 1-3 ectos off a rare, but last month I went through a whole NEW BLK that I bought and only found 1 ecto in the whole batch. Promptly stopped deconning rares after that. Found I got more money selling the rares themselves.

Past few exotics I’ve salvaged have yielded 0 ecto each time and as for rares I keep getting 0-1 and more rarely 2 or 3. Plus ecto prices are skyrocketing. Things can be quietly nerfed server side and I’m thinking this is the case.