Guild Wars 2

I’ve been using a Fine Salvage Kit, which mostly returned upgrades 1 out of 2-3 times, but none for a couple of armor sets now. Did anyone notice a similar behavior recently?

First thing that comes to my mind is Diminishing Returns… I wonder if they affect salvaging chances as well. :-\

It’s still luck based. Fine has a less chance than master’s. If you want the upgrade use a BL one. I use the mystic though.

Also id wager the higher the level the item the better salvage kit you will need. Thus if your using the fine and are now salvaging higher end gear then your going to get a even lesser chance of getting something back from it

Chances are indeed lower than you’d expect, but they do work.

I would not be surprised if DR was affecting salvaging. You cannot expect to have a decent chance at acquiring wealth or value from your efforts in this game. It has been made abundantly clear that wealth is only for scamming gold sellers, or those who were allowed to amass large sums of gold at the beginning through exploits.

TP flippers are trumped by the massively wealthy who control large quantities of commodities and rare items.

So yes sigil and runes are harder to get from salvage. Better start buying them now and saving for the future.

eternistarr.6304:

Really they should have a policy that they would get banned from doing anything instanced for x amount of days. Including wvw and pvp arenas. and after 3 infractions a perm ban. By doing a ban on instanced events at least maybe they will change there behavior. But it does happen i’ve had a group doing a dungeon that someone just kept wiping us and wouldn’t listen to directions after the 4th wipe we kicked him and finished in less than a min. Im not saying you did anything wrong but it does happen. Unfortunately these would just have to be reviewed on a case by case basis. If there were a better way to log maybe the chat to a temp file in the game folder of the last kick from party at least you could have some evidence. Only other advise is run with people you trust because there are alot of jerks in this game

I’m 99% sure you posted this on the wrong thread. =D

Tolmos.8395:

eternistarr.6304:

Really they should have a policy that they would get banned from doing anything instanced for x amount of days. Including wvw and pvp arenas. and after 3 infractions a perm ban. By doing a ban on instanced events at least maybe they will change there behavior. But it does happen i’ve had a group doing a dungeon that someone just kept wiping us and wouldn’t listen to directions after the 4th wipe we kicked him and finished in less than a min. Im not saying you did anything wrong but it does happen. Unfortunately these would just have to be reviewed on a case by case basis. If there were a better way to log maybe the chat to a temp file in the game folder of the last kick from party at least you could have some evidence. Only other advise is run with people you trust because there are alot of jerks in this game

I’m 99% sure you posted this on the wrong thread. =D

Oh I absolutely did but im not really sure how it happened lol

edit: or why just now it split my single post into two….

eternistarr.6304:

Oh I absolutely did but im not really sure how it happened lol

edit: or why just now it split my single post into two….

Good, so you’re not just a grumpy person complaining randomly

I pretty sure I read something somewhere where a Dev confirmed that DR doesn’t effect salvaging. Higher level gear wouldn’t be a factor either, as the percentage of return is clearly written in description.

It is simply a string of bad luck. This is coming from someone who had to try 42 times to get the endless plush griffon tonic. I didn’t for a second start assuming conspiracy.