Guild Wars 2

Hi all, myself and a few fellow players have noticed a significantly lower amount of ectos from rare items since the salvage kit update andI am wondering if anyone else is seeing the same?

I know it’s RNG but even that doesn’t sit right with my salvages since the update.

I use masters salvage kits. Yesterday I got 6 ecto from 16 rares. Also I didn’t get a single ecto from the first 4 rares.

Now, I know this has happened before, 2013 I think and anet had to do another patch to fix the drop rates. Now I’m not saying this is the same thing I am just a little concerned.

Based on my small results and a couple of other peoples similar results, to get the 250 ecto I need for legendary, by salvaging alone, i would need 2.5 x the amount of rares needed to get them. So approximately 625 rares for 250 ecto.

Like I said I’m not saying this isn’t rng, I’ve salvaged rares for well over a year and not seen it as bad as this.

No haters or shouters or moaners please. Just your current ecto salvage experience :-)

Think you’re just unlucky. Prior to change my friend always complained he didn’t get many ecto, while I’d get plenty. Post update I really haven’t noticed a change in my intake, but I haven’t salvaged many rates last night. I’ll keep an eye on it.

Current? Last world boss was three salvages for seven ectos using a black lion kit. I’ve had at least one ecto nearly every salvage for the last week. My guildie on the other hand is more in the same boat as you.

Sadly RNG is … random.
In the last months, I’m averaging 1~1.5 ecto per rare, 2 days ago I got 9 ectos from 6 rares.

I just salvaged about a dozen rares and got more ectos than I usually get. RNG is RNG.

Thank you for the replies so far! It only concerned me as I’d salvaged 110 ecto from 150 rares before latest update.

Seems RNG has turned on me finally lol

The brethren of the spirits that globs of ectoplasm come from have cursed you for consuming too many of their brethren.

Slimer from the ghostbusters is floating between a wall somewhere laughing at me I know it lol

My rate also appears to have dropped recently.

kitten you RNG!!

Well, I’ve only salvaged one rare since the patch….and received one ecto. Not sure if that’s helpful. /shrug

Good luck, though!

RNG… is a kitten.

Yesterday I got a rifle with bloodlust sigil, thinking yay finally some gold.

I salvaged it, but accidentally picked master kit instead of bl (I usually use bl for exotics and masters for rare).

I got…

1 mithril ore.

I know a few friends who are complaining about the conversion rate of ectos using the silver matic machine compared to the mystic. But i guess you only hear complaints when it’s bad and never when it’s good. I use the silver matic i would say average is 1:1

I recently had the following results from mystic forging masterwork items, which should have a 20% chance of getting rares.

In one run, I ran through 120 weapons and got a single rare from 30 forges, instead of the expected ~6. “Wow,” I said to myself, that’s terrible. “I wonder,” (I mused not quite aloud) “could there have been a stealth nerf to the forge?” Because the odds are ~1:100 of getting 1 or fewer rares out of thirty tries.

I started to compose an email to a buddy (who forges more than I) with my results — I was going to ask if they’d seen anything similar. But first, I decided to do some more forging.

The next run was only 32 weapons, which should give me 1-2 rares. Instead, I got six. Yes, out of only eight tries, I got six rares.

Over all, I had 38 attempts, which should average out to ~7-8 rares…and I got 7, the expected amount.

tl;dr small numbers of attempts are not only insufficient to determine whether there’s a nerf, they are also well below enough to even decide to do further research.

Specifically, for ecto from salvaging rares with master/mystic kits, I’d recommend a minimum of 100 tries with results well below 0.7e/rare or above 1.0 e/rare before worrying about a change to the rate, up or down.