Guild Wars 2

Has anyone noticed a considerable nerf to the drop rate on these when you salvage? The last 6 or 7 lvl 80 exotics I salvaged with Black Lion Kits gave me 0 dark matter globs. I used to consistently get at least 1 per salvage, to the point where I’d thought it was a guaranteed thing. I have over 100 of them in my bank, and I haven’t gotten them any other way besides salvaging exotics, that I know of. But I haven’t been able to get any more for a few months now. I feel like I’m just wasting my Black Lion Kits

I doubt it.

According to the wiki, it’s an average of 0.5/exotic for master’s kit and its equivalents, 1.0/exotic for BL kits.

However, since balls drop 0, 1, 2, or 3, the variance is quite high; there’s not a 100% chance, despite the average being 1/exotic. Before people knew about salvaging exotics to sell the sigils, I used to buy tons and salvage with surplus BL kits. Out of two full kits, I’d get 40-50 balls (so somewhat lower than average), but I’d also easily get streaks of 6-7 without any, evening up by getting some double or triple drops.

In other words, 6-7 is too few salvages to even begin to worry. If you go through an entire kit without any, please report back. (Ideally, keeping careful track of every salvage.)

Hi,

I have experienced the same as the OP, I got 1 Glob of Dark matter form 12-15 exotics salvaged with a BL kit. I also had a consistent salvage rate of about 1/salvage before. So 6-7 may be too few, but 6-7 + 12-15 makes it a bit more than just a coincedence imho.

I just did another salvage and got 6 Globs of dark matter from 8 pieces of exotic gear (lvl 78) a using BL kit, so it seems a bit better, but still less than before, considering the 12-15 pieces of gear I used before (by the way halve of them where not exotic but ascended and came from the fractals, maybe that explains it partly)

It’s still same. Sometimes nothing, sometimes no ecto’s, but several times 1-3 glob of dark matter.

Today the same: 15 exotic pieces of armor lvl 78-80, salvaged using a BL salvage kit.
Result: 1 Glob of Dark Matter