Guild Wars 2

Ever since the patch I have been salvaging pvp gear left and right in hopes of a shard. I must have salvaged 70 pieces of gear but have still had no luck. What is going on? Is this a bug because surely it cannot be this difficult to get a mat that is not an Arcane Orb.

shard or sliver? because slivers are very rare and i think you can only get from gold boxes.
I guess by that logic you can only get shards from silver+ boxes? I’m not sure about any of this tho.

extracting
copper chests = orbs only
silver chests = orbs or shards
gold chests = shards or slivers

copper = low tier items, can only extract orbs
silver = low/mid tier items, mid tier can extract orbs or shards
gold = low/mid/high + extra tier items, high tier can extract shards or slivers, extra tier extracts sliver

crafting
orbs → low tier → crits into mid tier
shards → mid tier → crits into high tier
sliver → high tier → crits into extra tier

I was about to post a new topic about this, but decided to search and found this.

I am almost level 15 rank and have nearly only bought gold chests (all deer have been gold, but I bought a few rabbit bronze in the beginning before I knew what I was doing). I have salvaged every double I have gotten and once just went through and salvaged my entire inventory for the heck of it.

I have not seen a single shard or a single sliver. Tons of powder, orbs, and tokens. I poked around online and discovered that some people have even been less fortunate than me. Some people have claimed not seeing a single sliver up through rank 21.

Can this possibly be working as intended? There doesn’t seem to be a trick besides buying gold chests and salvaging.

Its particularly painful seeing as you can quickly get to the point of averaging about .5 successful deposits per chest and then the rest are consumables or just the salvage components to make things that you would then salvage.

Honestly, in thinking about it, I’m not sure why the orbs exist. Are we really to believe that people are concerned with having to craft the lowest rarity items that you have gotten probably 20 times over while striving for the rares? Are they just for the other consumable recipes in the mystic forge? I guess the same goes for the shards but to a lesser extent. (At least they can crit into a rare)

Just want to know if this is a bug, or just a really punishing reward system in the game.

I’ve only ever gotten 4 slivers from salvaging stuff, and 2 of those were actually from the same item, so they seem pretty rare.

Rell.8395:

extracting
copper chests = orbs only
silver chests = orbs or shards
gold chests = shards or slivers

copper = low tier items, can only extract orbs
silver = low/mid tier items, mid tier can extract orbs or shards
gold = low/mid/high + extra tier items, high tier can extract shards or slivers, extra tier extracts sliver

crafting
orbs -> low tier -> crits into mid tier
shards -> mid tier -> crits into high tier
sliver -> high tier -> crits into extra tier

This isn’t necessarily true. I tend to only buy silver chests and I get a decent amount of slivers out of them (in fact I obtained 3 slivers earlier today from a silver chest so it certainly still works with the latest patch).

The reason I buy silvers over gold is not only because you can get 2 silvers for the price of 1 gold, but also because the gold chests seem to only give me an unidentified dye (which I could care less about) and 3-4 salvageable items that rarely give me slivers anyway. Silver chests tend to give me 4-6 salvageable items consistently.

Yesterday I received 6 slivers at level 17. I really want the level 20 gear so I am cautious with spending my glory. I decided to buy 5 gold chests and yes got 6 slivers, most orbs and powder, about 3 crystals, some tokens/gear tokens, and 2 dyes. It was my most successful gathering I had. The slivers also came in bundles of 3 which means I salvaged only 2 items to get 6 slivers (not sure if this is for everyone since those were my only slivers I ever got).

Oh yeah I spent 3 of them on armor with the free tournament tokens seeing how that will give me the best looking armor out of the rabbit/deer selections.

A tip I learned, salvage silver or gold chests only (I prefer gold) till your half way with the tier. So, 5, 15, 25, 35 and so on. This way you can collect enough glory/materials for the next tier while collecting gear in the mean time (if you want full sets).

Keep in mind, the gold chests will sometimes provide you with the gear that ARE the result of crystals/slivers so that’s a given piece to the set right there without having to go through the process. So please be careful when salvaging such items.

If I remember right, I would get about 5-10 slivers from salvaging about 50 to 60 gold chests.

I got 4 slivers from 2 silver chests yesterday. I’m sure it’s still pretty random but the chance is still there.

Rank 24, no slivers to speak of yet. Maybe I’ll use some of that 50k glory to try to farm some.

r26, and have found ~100 slivers, but only around 50 shards.

My main source of slivers is from gold tourney chests, so that may explain why shards appear to be rarer, if shards are more likely to drop from silver chests and slivers from gold…

wrong ~ r30 here
usually buy as many silver as gold just spent 47k glory on chests
i got more slivers from silvers than gold its totally random

Made a topic about this. Let me know what you guys think and I hope it helps you out. Thank you.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Salvaging-Information/first#post460531

Today i salvaged items from 20 Gold Chests (Wolf), and about 10 Gold Free Tournament chests…
And no silvers or crystals. Think getting gear in sPvP this way isn’t good idea…

i think theres a big misconception about slivers only dropping from gold chest tho.. when i just started i only bought copper chest and i had all the slivers i needed.. when i was around rank 20 i only bought gold chest and im near 35 now.. and i think i got 5 slivers.. today i got 3 from a copper pvp chest item don’t recall what it was but it sure was no rare 100%.. its all rng i think copper items do drop them but much smaller% but the gold items got an abysmall % anyways.. so wether its 5% for a gold item or 1% for a copper item.. i rather take the copper then.. much more items..

Rell.8395:

extracting
copper chests = orbs only
silver chests = orbs or shards
gold chests = shards or slivers

copper = low tier items, can only extract orbs
silver = low/mid tier items, mid tier can extract orbs or shards
gold = low/mid/high + extra tier items, high tier can extract shards or slivers, extra tier extracts sliver

crafting
orbs -> low tier -> crits into mid tier
shards -> mid tier -> crits into high tier
sliver -> high tier -> crits into extra tier

Not true. I have several shards which I got from copper chests only. Bying a higher rank like silver or gold only uppers the chances of getting that specific material. But it IS possible to get ‘em from the copper ones to, It’s just more rare.