Guild Wars 2

Many people are experiencing a serious decrease in ecto salvage results. Many are showing either 0-1 results over many salvages. I do not know if this is a bug or intended but left out of patch notes.

After doing my research some time ago https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/BL-S-Kits-vs-Master-Kits-Results-Ectos/first we had a rate at which they would drop. But it seems a recent patch within a month or so has affected the drops.

Currently the discussion is https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Clarification-on-current-patch/first#post2112064 asking for clarification on updates not listed in patch.

And the ecto discussion on the issue is at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Changes-to-ecto-salvage-from-rares/first#post2112054.

I listed the separate threads so that members could view them independently. I hope this gets sorted out soon, this is a huge deal since this material is very widely used and sold. I’d also ask that if you post in those or this thread to do so constructively as we have found this may very well not be a conspiracy theory. But rather a bug, or something else.

i experienced the same. some time ago I got a lot more ectos from my rares.
I use the highest salvaging kit from the gemshop and from the last 10 rares I salvaged, I only got 2 Ectos. This keeps happening for a few weeks now if i recall correctly

I confirm problem with ectos. I am salvaging many houndred of rares everyday and to this tiem all was fine with drop rate. After last patch something is wrong. Maybe main drop rate is same but chance to get 3 or 2 ectos from one single item is hard. Here is what I got from salvage 300 rares after last patch:

180 globs
Only 1 time 3 ectos from one item
2x 2 ectos from single item

Not saw any note about ectos change so I hope its a bug

I too noticed this, after 53 rares using the master salvg. kit I got 24 ectos and never got more than 1 ecto per item.

I can confirm a drastic change in ecto-rate. Got 156 ectos out of 300 rares after the patch, so an average of ~0.5 / rare with the master’s kit. Until yesterdays patch it has always been ~0.9 / rare with the master’s kit. Would love to get an official confirmation if it’s a bug or intended to be like that.

Ack. Same problem here. I list all my salvage rates. >1000 items per day. Before patch ~0.9 with master kit, lvl 80 rare. After patch: > 1000 items same type ~0.53

Something has changed. As it has not been published in the patchnotes, i think its a bug.

Just adding my name to the list. 82 rares, 12 ectos using BLT Salvage kit.

No word from ANet on whether they nerfed it, or acknowledge it’s a bug.

That dog won’t hunt monsignor.

Please list the level of rares and where they were acquired from. That would help just in case it is isolated ^^

All level 80s, mostly armors. All gained from boss and bonus chests before and after the last update.

Ok, the first official statement is here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Changes-to-ecto-salvage-from-rares/page/3#post2115818

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Changes to important things like salvage rates would be listed in the update notes if they have changed. If it’s not in the update notes, then no changes have been made by the development team.

So it must be a bug. Hopefully, they’ll look into this as soon as possible since ectos are probably one of the most important items considering market stability and liability.

WaxWorm.8574:

Ok, the first official statement is here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Changes-to-ecto-salvage-from-rares/page/3#post2115818

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Changes to important things like salvage rates would be listed in the update notes if they have changed. If it’s not in the update notes, then no changes have been made by the development team.

So it must be a bug. Hopefully, they’ll look into this as soon as possible since ectos are probably one of the most important items considering market stability and liability.

And yet noticeable changes like AOE visual change, right click in PVP were not in patch. Not everything is in the notes, I just made a very long post explaining that very thing in General forums.

There is definitely a bug, last evening after the patch drop rate preety much halved to ~50% down from the usuall 90%, today something seemed to be fixed for me at least and i got the usuall 90%. Now it’s again at 50% can’t think of a cause, 2 and 3 ecto salvages just stoped happening abruptly an hour or so ago.

100 lev 80 TP rares. Master Salvage kit. 51 ectos, down from a 0.9 average.

None of the salvages yielded greater than one ecto.

They ofc drop the chance.

How can they change the salvage rate, without being aware that they changed it? That is simply mind-bug-ling to me.

sorenrye.7238:

How can they change the salvage rate, without being aware that they changed it? That is simply mind-bug-ling to me.

That’s just how bugs work :P

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There will always be unintended bugs, there are worst ones in history but don’t want to get too far off topic :P

Hopefully this gets fixed or checked soon, John Smith is working on it on the general forums thread.

I can add to the story. With mystic salvage kits barely a rare, with BL kit only 1 ecto in 2-3 rares. Sure sounds like a bug.

Update-

• Fixed a salvaging bug introduced in the last patch that sometimes caused salvage kits to yield incorrect results.

Geotherma.2395:

Update-

• Fixed a salvaging bug introduced in the last patch that sometimes caused salvage kits to yield incorrect results.

Yep, seems it was more than bad luck or coincidence apparently.

Well, there we go. Good thing I only salvaged 2 Rares last night. XD

I believe this bug is still in game, either 0 or 1 ecto from any rare or exotic that I have salvaged.

Worst developers ever in a MMO, and i’ve played a lot!

But, if the “bug” went the other way and gave out twice-thrice as much Ectoplasm, we’d surely hadn’t seen a hot fix yet :rolleyes: