Guild Wars 2

Being as you did not actually answer anything I would still like to know what the difference is between salvaging rare armor and snowflake jewelry. I am not asking because I think the previous bans should be reversed but because I do not want to be banned myself. What is the difference in using 1 ecto to craft and salvage into more ectos, and using 0 ectos to craft and salvage into ectos. What makes one of them an activity you can only do a random number of times and the other you can do as many times as you want?

Because you don’t get back your advanced crafting materials while salvaging, only some raw stuff.

you see black lion normally only gives you as much ectos as you used. If you used no ectos, but got ectos from it, it’s obviously a bug. You also always got the snowflake back to so you spent a real small amount of money. You shouldn’t really salvage the stuff that you make if you see that you’re getting a far bigger ecto drop (3, 4 ectos) and should probably report it. Really you won’t be blocked as long as you won’t flood the market with thousands of them, making its price fall, getting insanely rich, buying other stuff making their prices rise and ruining the game for others.

I have recipe A, B, C, D, E, etc to Y, and they all follow a similar rubric:
1 of Big
1 of Small
5/15 of Major Crafting Material ( JC and AS/LW respectively)

Salvaging any of the results from A-Y will either get be back none of the major crafting material (AS/LW) or 1/5 of the major crafting material, with an added gain of ectoplasms, you are always at a very large (to complete) net loss on the major component which you recoup on losses by a fortunate salvage (or not). Market adjusts accordingly.

I then see that recipe Z has been added but it strangely neither follows the previous rubric of recipes nor does it obey the usual salvage rules:
1 of Big
1 of Small
1 of Major Crafting Material (JC only)

Salvaging Z will get back the major crafting material 80%/100% of time, leading to almost no (or completely no) loss in investment on the major component unlike any other recipe in the game. The market would/did adjust accordingly but made every other profession and crafting recipe vastly inferior along side of, quite obviously, not following the standard rubric of everything else in the game.

Its not the profit that is an issue (well it is in a way since it drastically shifted prices of things, crashed the T5 market and heavily affected the ecto price ~ rendering T5 effectively useless as it lost its dependence/control to/over the price of ectoplasms). Its the fact that the recipe clearly doesn’t follow the nature of how crafting has ever worked in this game in the past.

And this isn’t even something from a small sample size. There are hundreds of recipes all following the same rubric except this one recipe.

Mitra, I dont know about you, but I usually get ectos from crafting rare weapons, though I didnt put any into the recipe. In fact this is a major way that most people get their ectos. Where are you getting this info?

i remember when i used to buy lvl 80 rare weapons for like 10-15 silver, some of them used to give me 3 ectos, some none…but always made a profit at the end, ALWAYS, ofc i stoped because i end up without black lion salvage kits