Guild Wars 2

It went from around 0.9 ectos per rare (with a mystic kit) to 0.81

The ecto salvage rate seems to be consistent over large batches, but it can vary widely in smaller samples.

I salvage 125 rares at a time.

My best yield from 125 was 146 ecto – which was just last night.

My worst yield was 68 ecto which was about a week ago.

The last full batch of 1000 I did, I got 954 ecto so 95.4% (the 146 outlier and a 138 batch were in this group)

I’ve had streaks of 15 with zero ecto and it does make you worry and question, but if you press on, it gets better (at least it has so far).

I don’t know if there is DR on salvage, there could be because subjectively, I feel like I can tell when I’m on a bad streak and when I’m on a good streak – the thing is, humans always want to create meaning out of chaos so while some kind of DR type mechanism is possible, I don’t think it is in place and if it is, it’s influence is minor (+/- 5-10%)

Salvaging for ecto is a gamble and if you only play occasionally, your luck will vary wildly but if you come to understand what the odds are and are willing to accept a level of risk, you can acquire rares at a cost that is likely to be profitable. It takes discipline and in my opinion, you have to create a process that lets you stay inside the likely profit margin even as the market changes.

Now if you’re just salvaging rares you acquire through normal play, my advice would be to sell them.

Those 10 rares in your bag could become 30 ecto or zero ecto but if you sell them, you should net the same money as if you got a 70-75% ecto yield – and it’s guaranteed.

If they can alter your luckiness with MF and DR, they can do it for any unrevealed reason they want. This may include luck for different people, or different days. Could give more to people who buy gems or less to them. Could make salvages after the first 50 get unlucky.

It’s completely possible they do something like this. So one person’s experience doesn’t invalidate another’s.

Personally since Lost Shores, my salvages have been terrible. I’d have several more gold if I had the same rates as before LS. I just sell them now for the people who are lucky to salvage and get ectos from.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

It went from around 0.9 ectos per rare (with a mystic kit) to 0.81

Doesn’t the mystic salvage kit require 3 mystic forge stones? How are these kits cost effective?

I dunno about now. I got a mystic salvage kit like 3 months ago, and another 3 mystic forge stones. (bought a set of 5, got 1 from daily achievements)

This is back when gems were much cheaper, I dunno if you’d want to get one now.