Guild Wars 2

Hi

The last 2 days i salvaged around 20 yellow items with that kit and i only got 3 times Ectos. Is the kit bugged, or did i have just so bad luck ?

I’ve also noticed fewer ectos, but not just since the patch. It’s been for a few weeks or so. I get RNG, but the levels seemed awfully low, even for RNG. While I’m aware that I could have hit a rather long RNG slump, I salvage a lot and these levels were very, very low based on a sample size that’s not too terrible. Certainly was low enough to give pause. Thanks for confirming that I’m not the only one that noticed.

Be sure that you’re salvaging items above lvl 68. Yesterday I got 1~2 items below 60 dropped on my lvl80 char.

As for “ecto rate lowered” … as every patch … players try 10 items and immediately suspect ANet …

Yes, yes…me too. I’ve been sorely disappointed with my current Mystic Kit. I haven’t seen a SINGLE ecto in my last 18 salvages (all L78+ rares). I gave up for a while, then decided to try again with a Master’s, and though so far my return is a bit less than the supposed average it’s close and obviously is working better than the Mystic which I bothered to spend actual time and resources to create. Simple observation would imply there’s something funky with Mystic kits.

As for kneejerking with limited samples, let’s put it this way, in my prior logs of rare salvages, I never went more than 4 without at least one popping an ecto. I decided to make a mystic kit, and IMMEDITATELY went to zero until I went back to Master’s. Small sample, sure. Anecdotal, sure. For me, the proof is obvious, even though it could theoretically have been nothing more than highly unlikely coincidental bad luck. If I weren’t thinking I’d just be screwing myself over, I’d let the other 232 Mystic charges have their chances and see how it shakes out, but…nah.

Perhaps someone with more disposable income could do it FOR SCIENCE!

I did some sample size comparisons with my salvage data over 1k-ish attempts (taken over a long period of time though, so it may not be representative of any recent changes) with mystic salvage kits and it pretty much reflects what common sense dictates. Small sample sizes yield terrible results.
+- based on my global average(0.87—), not the accepted value(0.9).
Sample size of:
20: +-0.57 ectos/salv
50: +-0.33
100: +-0.2
200: +-0.12
300: +-0.07

Realize that in those 1k attempts, it doesn’t seem I had overly bad or good streaks, so the deviations could definitely be more (especially with the smaller samples). Since the last patch I’m running a little above average at 0.91, but only with a little over 20 salvages, so there’s nothing definitive there.

In saying you only got “3 times ectos”, do you mean you got at least one ecto as a yield three times, or 3 ectos total? Either way, you’re still close to the low end of the deviation in the sample size of 20 results I have gotten, which is reasonable.

ExTribble.7108:

In saying you only got “3 times ectos”, do you mean you got at least one ecto as a yield three times, or 3 ectos total? Either way, you’re still close to the low end of the deviation in the sample size of 20 results I have gotten, which is reasonable.

I’ve got 3 times 1 Ecto from salvaging 20 yellow lvl 70+ items with the mystic kit. Salvage 4 more items after i wrote the thread and again not even 1 Ekto.

I’ve now bought again a Master’s Salvage Kit, and the first 3 tries i had 1, 3 and 1 Ectos, so i think i use the Mystic just for trash and buy again better Master Kits.