Guild Wars 2

Isn’t it a little absurd you grind for dozens of hours and you are not even guaranteed access to an armor skin you want? Well in my opinion it is. I perfectly understand RNG is there to maintain rarity but when players spend tens of thousands of glory and get close to zero crystals and slivers isn’t that simply ridiculous? Broken drop-chances, needs to be fixed.

Agreed. I’ve gotten about 10 slivers, if that, and I’m rank 23.

Should add a recipe to the mystic forge to create crystals and slivers for an unreasonable amount of other materials (powder, orbs, tokens) IMO

Should add a recipe to the mystic forge to create crystals and slivers for an unreasonable amount of other materials (powder, orbs, tokens) IMO

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This please. I have TPvP’d my way up to rank 20 so far, I have bought countless chests and have hundreds of orbs and dusts and have NEVER gotten a single crystal much less a sliver. My friend and teammate has just reached rank 10 (he likes to PvE more than I do, we’re on an opposite 70/30 split between pve/pvp) and through the friggin’ RNG gods has the full armageddon set…

You have no idea how much this pisses me off even though I congratulated him as was polite. : /

I still think it would be better that the Orb/Crystal/Silver relate to the quality of the chest (as there are conveniently the same number of both):

• Bronze Chest > Orb
• Silver Chest > Crystal
• Gold Chest > Silver

With each one having a chance to get powder rather than the orb/crystal/silver.

i got 2 slivers salvaging a meh item.

Are you guys depositing the good looking stuff you get?

IIrc a silver chest has like a 50% chance to contain an item that can salvage into a Sliver (sometimes x3 : D )
But usually these things look awesome for your rank as they are hard to get, and people might be despositing them in the locker for an alt. But as it will always be ‘a chance to get a chance to get it’ they’ll be rare.

went from 60k glory to 40k glory trying to get the seer set, only got 4 pieces and decided to just stay with that before I waste it all.

it’s not that they’re stupidly rare, it’s that people don’t know the method of getting them and blow all their glory on garbage items

I’m rank 25 and have spent at least 20k glory this rank bracket (easily much more) purely salvaging items. I have found 3 arcane crystals and 4 arcane slivers. Ever.

A friend of mine is rank 12 and has found 6 arcane slivers.

Give us a recipe to craft, say, 150 arcane orbs into one arcane sliver. Just give us SOMETHING that isn’t purely RNG-based, please.

Very frustrating.

Jae.5138:

it’s not that they’re stupidly rare, it’s that people don’t know the method of getting them and blow all their glory on garbage items

Then please explain it to me. I buy mostly gold chest and salvage all duplicates.

it’s not so much the quality of the chest. it’s the quality of the items you get from it

I’ll use tourney token weapons as an example

There are four tiers to the tourney tokens.

1. The default ‘PVP’ weapons. E.g. PVP bow, PVP pistol etc.

2. The priory pvp weapons. E.g. Priory bow, Priory pistol, Priory Hammer, etc.

3. The vigil pvp weapons

4. The whisperer pvp weapons.

There are four tiers like this for almost every token. The dolyak token weapons include forest, flame, … well you see where I am going with this.

To create the first tier, you need 5 dusts + orb + animal/tourney token + armor/weapont oken

You have a chance to proc second tier.

With crystal you have a chance to proc third tier, with a high chance of getting second tier. You will not get first tier.

You get fourth tier if you are lucky with sliver, but will get third tier most of the time.

And that’s essentially how it is with salvaging.

If you salvage a fourth tier weapon/armor, you will have a chance of getting dust, sliver, animal/tourney token, or weapon/armor token

If you salvage a third tier weapon, you will have a chance of getting crystal/sliver, animal/tourney token, or weapon/armor token

It salvages into one of the components that you would use to craft it. So it is not possible to get orb from salvaging a third tier item like Vigil. (as a note, due to a glitch, priory/vigil hammer have a chance to give tiger token)

The reason why you buy gold chests is to increase your chance of getting a rare item, which means higher chance of sliver

I am rank 23, and I have gotten somewhere between 30~40 slivers. I have a full set of mist walker set, which is a tourney token 4th tier armor set for medium. It works for me, it will for you as well.

Titus.9705:

Isn kitten a little absurd you grind for dozens of hours and you are not even guaranteed access to an armor skin you want? Well in my opinion it is. I perfectly understand RNG is there to maintain rarity but when players spend tens of thousands of glory and get close to zero crystals and slivers isn’t that simply ridiculous? Broken drop-chances, needs to be fixed.

lol I thought people will complain that there isnt enough armor and that they get the same armors over and over…

I guess we must wait until people are 20+ and take like a zillion games before they reach the next tier.

I’m pretty sure I’ve been kittenon by the RNG gods for slivers. Rank 20 and 1 sliver. Only ever salvaged doubles and the rarer doubles I get frequently salvage into Arcane Dust. And the sad part is most of my chests have been Gold.
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“Oh look, a duplicate of my Armageddon Pants” salvages Arcane Dust “TY Anet”