Guild Wars 2

So i have just ran out of black lion salvage kits. I use them to salvage every lvl 70+ rare item i find trying to get ecto. Now im wondering, whats better, buy more BL kits with gems, use master salvage kits, or just sell the rares for about 30s on the TP.

Hoard your rares on alts + bank and keep doing dailies until you get a BL kit from that.

I get a relatively reliable supply of them from dailies.

how often do u get Bl kits from dailies

From my experience? Probably about once a week. It’s really random, of course, but that shouldn’t make a difference unless you earn a LOT of rare items.

Is this a recent change?

I’ve never gotten a bl kit for daily =\

Nile.9563:

how often do u get Bl kits from dailies

I have completed dailies religiously every day for the past three months and have received a total of four of those kits.

Of course, it’s all random and just comes down to that. But you’re collecting ectos, so you’re familiar with how random can work out.

Isslair.4908:

Is this a recent change?

I’ve never gotten a bl kit for daily =\

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Daily

so if getting BL kits from dailies isnt reliable enough, then i go back to my original post and question. What do you guys do

Nile.9563:

so if getting BL kits from dailies isnt reliable enough, then i go back to my original post and question. What do you guys do

If reliability is the sole factor here, I would advise selling the rares as your backup. They are in pretty high demand and you can guarantee the gold of about 1 ecto per rare. Buying BL kits with gems involves either A) Spending real money or Buying gems with gold at their new high price, heavily cutting into any profit you’d make by salvaging the rares in the first place. As for Master’s Kits…. 25% just doesn’t cut it.

If reliability is the sole factor here, I would advise selling the rares as your backup. They are in pretty high demand and you can guarantee the gold of about 1 ecto per rare. Buying BL kits with gems involves either A) Spending real money or Buying gems with gold at their new high price, heavily cutting into any profit you’d make by salvaging the rares in the first place. As for Master’s Kits…. 25% just doesn’t cut it.

Using master salvage kits, I’ve been averaging 0.8 ectos/rare over the last 100 something salvages. With most rares selling for 22-25 silver and ectos selling for 30+s, salvaging rares ends up being more profitable than selling rares directly.

Vlejundo.6271:

If reliability is the sole factor here, I would advise selling the rares as your backup. They are in pretty high demand and you can guarantee the gold of about 1 ecto per rare. Buying BL kits with gems involves either A) Spending real money or Buying gems with gold at their new high price, heavily cutting into any profit you’d make by salvaging the rares in the first place. As for Master’s Kits…. 25% just doesn’t cut it.

Using master salvage kits, I’ve been averaging 0.8 ectos/rare over the last 100 something salvages. With most rares selling for 22-25 silver and ectos selling for 30+s, salvaging rares ends up being more profitable than selling rares directly.

Magic Find gear?

Magic find doesn’t effect salvage.

I’d suggest either gathering high price items to sell in store for crafting and buying more, or I would suggest making this in the mystic forge.

Fine Salvage Kit
Journeyman’s Salvage Kit
Master’s Salvage Kit
3 mystic forge stones (got mine from my personal story rewards)

= 250 Mystic Salvage Kits (25% rare mats 80% recovering upgrades 250 uses)

It might be simpler less expensive to buy the ones in the store at this point even with conversion rates.

Not finished testing this yet but it does seem that MF affects globs. It’s happened to me twice now. Got nothing on my non mf toon, and got 7-8 on my mf toon. Both level 80 in lions arch using the same kits salv the same number of rares.

MF does not affect salvaging. Tested by quite a huge amount of ppl.

You can also get the kits out of BLC and with the donation system its not that hard to get keys for them. If prices are staying as they are its about 80s for key but you can even burn krama but you eat though it fast for keys.

I’ve salvaged close to 1000 rares using master/mystic salvage kits, and the odds of getting an ecto is around 85%. Judging by what I’ve seen, black lion kits have the same chance. I’ve also salvaged hundreds of them pre and post the supposed ecto nerf and can confirm, the rate was never changed.

The +% chance to salvage rare materials is for getting, for example, orichalcum instead of mithril.

I have missed ONE day of dailies since headstart…ONE – and I can count on ONE hand how many extra items other than a coin (and now jugs) that I have gotten from a daily – 3 of those 5 items were a SINGLE BASIC xmute stone, not even fine – I don’t know how you guys get so lucky getting extra stuff from dailies, because I sure as heck do not.

I have gotten them from dailies and one from a Black Lion Chest (after a luckitteny drop); I have been super lucky, though, because I usually find another just as my current one is running out. Once, I did run out andthe Master Salvage Kit worked very nicely (I was, again, very lucky in getting ectos with it), but after a day got another Black Lion Salvage Kit from a daily. I thought we got them eventually from dailies, but it seems it’s just sheer luck, sadly.

I had 3 kits as well. Used up two salvaging willy nilly, then decided to save the last one whrn i get rxotics.