BL Salvage Kit and rabid ori. inscr. recovery

BL Salvage Kit and rabid ori. inscr. recovery

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Posted by: upsdn.5426

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  • Previous experience: using a BLSK to salvage exotic lvl. 80 weapons with the “rabid” prefix, I’ve received a rabid orichalcum-imbued inscription 50-75% of the time. (I’ve done this many times, so I trust this figure).
  • Fastforward: a few days ago, I salvaged 20 exotic lvl. 80 weapons with the “rabid” prefix, and received 0 inscriptions.

Ordinarily, hearing a report like this, I respond with RNG and probability. But given the previous inscription recovery rate using BLSK, a run of 20 failures is kind of extraordinary.

Before I go back to my usual practice of wasting salvage kits (and exotic weapons), I wanted to check whether anyone else has detected a decrease in inscription recovery. (In particular, I’m wondering about recovery of inscriptions that can’t be crafted or obtained another way—e.g. rabid, dire, soldier’s…).

Anyone else having exceedingly bad luck with this recently?

Did ArenaNet recently announce any changes to BLSK behavior or inscription recovery?

BL Salvage Kit and rabid ori. inscr. recovery

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

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It’s returning other inscriptions at (what appears to me to be) the same rate. I haven’t had tried any rabids, though.

They supposedly “fixed” the drop rates on non-BLSK kits (the actual was previously much lower than stated in the description), but I don’t remember them mentioning the BLSK behavior

John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”

BL Salvage Kit and rabid ori. inscr. recovery

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Posted by: upsdn.5426

upsdn.5426

It’s returning other inscriptions at (what appears to me to be) the same rate. I haven’t had tried any rabids, though.

They supposedly “fixed” the drop rates on non-BLSK kits (the actual was previously much lower than stated in the description), but I don’t remember them mentioning the BLSK behavior

Thanks for letting me know. I’m sure nothing’s wrong with rabids in particular, and I really just experienced a run of bad luck.

Of course, if it happens the next time I salvage 20 exotics, I’ll be back.

BL Salvage Kit and rabid ori. inscr. recovery

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

Illconceived Was Na.9781

It’s returning other inscriptions at (what appears to me to be) the same rate. I haven’t had tried any rabids, though.

They supposedly “fixed” the drop rates on non-BLSK kits (the actual was previously much lower than stated in the description), but I don’t remember them mentioning the BLSK behavior

Thanks for letting me know. I’m sure nothing’s wrong with rabids in particular, and I really just experienced a run of bad luck.

Of course, if it happens the next time I salvage 20 exotics, I’ll be back.

As a result of your post, I’m keeping track of my results now. (However, hadn’t anything to salvage recent, sad face.) If accurate (and I assume they are), your results are unlikely at best.

  • If the true rate of getting an inscription is 33%, then there’s only a 0.03% chance of 20 salvages returning no inscriptions. That’s 3 chances in 10,000.
  • If the true rate is 25%, there’s only a 0.3% chance, i.e. 1 in 1,000.

Since there are probably more than 10,000 people using BL kits to salvage 20 exotics (with potential inscriptions), then someone has to be the one to get none, and so it could be you. Still, that’s the sort of bad luck about which people write blues anthems (e.g. If I didn’t have bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all).

tl;dr I’ll keep better records, too. If I see similar results, I’ll post here.


I’ve recently salvaged about half a dozen Shaman’s exotics with BLSKs. Nearly every salvage ended up with an inscription. (I still haven’t had any rabids worth salvaging, so no data for that.)

John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”

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