Hello, after yesterday I feel kinda tricked… I was working toward my legendary backpiece collection and here it comes:
Dark Energy descriptions says: “Salvaged from ascended gear.”
Ascended salvage kit says: “Dark Energy and other items can be salvaged from weapons, armor, and other trinkets”So took it as granted that I will get dark energy from ascended trinkets, tried to salvage dark energy from asc amulet, so I spent 6 g and 12 guild commendations (1g for salvage and 5 g for guild commendation trader), then got surprised with the outcome – 5 x +1 agony infusions, like for real? Then a thought came to my mind, that I might salvaged wrong item even thought I coulnd’t find any ascended in my bags, so tried to buy new one and… 9 x +1 agony infusions… Gave the game last chance bought third got about 7 x +1 agony infusions. So total:
Spent:
- 18 g + 36 guild commendations, (guild commendations took me about 9 weeks to get, since low week cap)
Income:
- 21 +1 agony infusions
Conclusion:
- Joke
Now here comes the questions, “really anet”? Checked some rate drop on the internet and it says in most cases u get this, I wonder who while designing the ascended salvaging possibilities thought about this, guess none. I often hear when you people do interviews about ‘we thought this was fun, that would be really cool’, so could someone explain it to me how spending 9 weeks of guild mission farm and quite an amount of gold just to get items worth 40 silver is FUN? Not to mention it’s not fair at all, if I’d know the person responsible for this design I should probably report him/her in game for ‘scamming’. Also by decisions you make, you probably are aware that tons of gold sellers exist right?
I just wonder what’s the point behind it? You said you wanted to get rid of rng if it comes to precursors, so instead you decided to make another rng hell regarding ascended salvaging? (not only dark energy but also ‘Fatebreaker’ title, after salvaging over 30 rings I just gave up).
Maybe I’m just unlucky, but I really feel tricked and robbed by the game, even though i spent over 2000 hours in GW1/GW2 combined, I don’t like neither feel like the game is still for players like me (not a type of 12h per day farm guy nor gold seller user).
That would likely be Anet’s economist John Smith. Most of the cost things were very likely his idea.
Honestly ascended salvaging is terrible. Not only does it cost way too much gold but it simply isn’t worth it in most of the cases. In all honesty it should just cost fractal relics and a very small amount of gold because the real cost to salvaging ascended gear is already covered. Ascended gear of any type except rings is the cost, even with rings you can only get them from a daily fractal chest so it isn’t like they are unlimited. Salvaging ascended should not be significantly more expensive than salvaging other gear as the cost is covered by what it takes to get that gear.