Guild Wars 2

I am just on an incredibly bad luck streak with Salvaging Rare for Ectos? I haven’t gotten a single ecto from a salvage in 3 days and I am use to getting them on a regular bases. At the very least 10 a day when I run each of the chest events.

I got 5 last night on two salvages.

I got two rares from a boss chest last night, kept one for another character and salvaged the other. I got 3 ectos.

I must be having an extremely bad dry spell… the last 8 rares used master salvages on I still have yet to see an ecto.

Jeneva.8561:

I must be having an extremely bad dry spell… the last 8 rares used master salvages on I still have yet to see an ecto.

Been there.

Jeneva.8561:

I must be having an extremely bad dry spell… the last 8 rares used master salvages on I still have yet to see an ecto.

Done that

Tridas.6490:

Jeneva.8561:

I must be having an extremely bad dry spell… the last 8 rares used master salvages on I still have yet to see an ecto.

Done that

/Fistbump

Finally… got an Ecto. Sorry to hear others had that same bad luck as me. At least the % wasn’t nerfed like i was thinking it might be.

Jeneva.8561:

Finally… got an Ecto. Sorry to hear others had that same bad luck as me. At least the % wasn’t nerfed like i was thinking it might be.

Well, not saying it wasn’t nerfed, because there’s no way of really knowing by gauging solely by occurrence.

Yeah, I hate those dry spells where you get no ectos and you keep asking yourself if it would just make more sense to sell the rares for 25s a piece or so.

Gambling sucks. Wish this game had a lot less of it. Or that the RNG ranges were tightened up. I’d rather get 1-2 ectos per salvaged rare than 0-3. Even if it works out to 1.5/rare in the long run, it’s very disheartening to scrap a bunch of rares down to 3s of upgrades a piece. :P

yesterday , i salvaged 7 rares , ended with 9 Ectos … RNG is RNG ..

I’ve had great luck with ectos. More often than not I’ll get at least one, and often three from one item.

It seems to be streaky tho, last month I rarely got any

As a data point, I’m seeing Ectos at roughly the same rate. Sometimes zero, sometimes 3, but I haven’t noticed a change overall. I too would vote for less gambling in-game in about any area where it exists. It’s probably not bad as an option and many games include some aspect of it successfully. Here it has come to characterize the game and it really shouldn’t.