Guild Wars 2

So, we’re supposed to salvage tons of blues/greens/ecto to get Luck up in order to get acc-wide MF.

If we would purchase blues only, for example, how much gold would it take to get a 100% MF, or 150? More?

What are your experiences?

How much MF do you have after investing 10 gold? 50 gold? 100?

the wiki says level 100 takes 122,540 luck
reddit calculated the total luck needed for 300% mf is around 4.2 million
reddit also found that 2500 fine level 70 items gave 26,330 luck = +62%
122,540 / 26,330 * 2500 = 11,635 salvaged fine items for 100% mf
4.2 million / 26,330 * 2500 = 398,784 salvaged fine items for 300% mf
I’m not sure if lower levels give less luck or not…
400k salvages on the infinite SK would cost 120g to salvage, or 20.8g cheaper than basic SK, which is half the price of purchasing the infinite SK :P If you had 8 × 20-slot bags, it would take 2,515 times of filling all of them and salvaging everything in it.
sheeeeeesh; I hope masterwork gives more luck per salvage.

I don’t have nearly that much data but

556 lvl 80 masterwork items gave me 16,770 luck (this is about 8-10g worth of greens, assume avg price of 1.5s, if you vendor them. But since I assume they’re going for much more on the tp it’ll be a lot more costly) This put me to around 55% MF, but that includes the free 2,500 luck from the legendary essences they sent out.

Another person (DtC) posted in my thread with
5500 masterwork items gave 193,700 luck

So yes, masterwork does give more.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Essences-of-Luck-Drop-Rates/first#post2774217

If you wanted to see our break down of fine/masterwork/rare/exotic essences.

Further searching lead me to find these two numbers:
blue 70+ = 10.5 luck on average
green 70+ = 29.3 luck on average

this blue number agrees with the numbers above. If the green is also true, that’s 143,344 masterwork items needed to get 300%
I haven’t found any good numbers for low-level blues and greens, yet.

Well, do we even know that you get less Luck from lower level gear?

Some more data, has been posted on another thread as well

For Science, 100 ecto’s salvaged (using mystic kits but that doesn’t really matter)

181 crystalline dust

737 of the fine 10 luck
48 of the masterwork 50 luck
3 of the rare 100 luck
1 of the exotic 1 luck

total of 10,270 luck for 100 ecto (Average of 102.7 luck per ecto)
total levels gained 76% to 81% (5 levels or 5%)

total cost of buying ecto, 30.17g
total returns selling dust 21.6g

with what I used, 9g for 10,270 luck