Guild Wars 2

So, the Salvage-o-Matic is supposed to have a 20% chance to salvage upgrades, according to its item description. I always presumed it worked as intended as prior to the Sep 3rd patch, I only ever salvaged whites with it.

However, now that I’m salvaging Fines and Masterworks for their Essences, I’ve noticed that even though I’ve salvaged close to 100 Masterworks by now, I have not ever salvaged a single upgrade (rune/sigil) from them. It seems a stretch that a 20% chance could not have procced in that time.

What’s the experience of other users of the Salvage-o-Matic? Have you managed to salvage runes/sigils out from Masterworks with it? Or is my suspicion correct and the Salvage-o-Matic is bugged and not able to salvage upgrades?

I’ve gotten upgrades using it. Just bad RNG for you, I guess.

You are not losing much though , those green upgrades only sell for 16c to the vendor.

Thanks for the feedback, guys. I guess it might be a streak of REALLY bad luck.

@Enko: How often have you been getting upgrades from them? Now that we have confirmation that it DOES salvage upgrades, I’d just like to make sure that the chance is not abnormally low (i.e. the Salvage-o-Matic is incorrectly using the Crude Salvage Kit stats, which has ~5% chance to salvage upgrades).

@FateOmega: Oh, I know. I was planning on throwing the green runes/sigils into the MF for the Daily whenever it came around, not selling them. (Others have likely gotten the same idea though, as I’ve noticed a drop in the price of Major runes/sigils since the Sep 3rd patch.)

Like Enko I am getting upgrades back at what seems like the same level as the basic kits. I haven’t kept records though.

I do the Frostgorge Champ train for one hour before needing a break (2×30 min food buffs) and each time after salvaging all drops and box contents I usually have 8-12 of the upgrades. Keep in mind the Fines don’t have an upgrade in them to salvage, just the Masterworks. The RNG can go through its highs and lows in output, I think your just on the downside now.

@Fate Omega – I save them up and toss them in the Mystic Forge for upgrades in quality. I have quite a nice collection of superiors now (hundreds of them) all due to my frugality with them. It’s worth it to do this if you have the bank storage capacity to do so.

Yeah, I know that only the Masterworks have upgrades. I had a bunch of them left over from the Champ boxes during the last few days of invasion farming, but as I said, I didn’t get any upgrades from them, which seemed kinda fishy. I’ll keep on trying though, since it does seem to be a streak of very bad luck.

OK, so over the weekend I salvaged 17 more Masterworks, and managed to get upgrades back from 2 of them. So I can now confirm that the Salvage-o-Matic DOES extract upgrades, although the chance for getting them back still seems abnormally low. I’ll continue to track this in case there is indeed a bug with the upgrade salvage %.

Any1 noticed that after latest patch (26th November) the chance of getting upgrades is a lot more than 20%? I dislike this alot and wouldnt mind if the chance was 0%. Minor sigils/runes are so useless, I just want my mats and luck from salvaging.

Kurppa.9473:

Any1 noticed that after latest patch (26th November) the chance of getting upgrades is a lot more than 20%? I dislike this alot and wouldnt mind if the chance was 0%. Minor sigils/runes are so useless, I just want my mats and luck from salvaging.

A lot of people have noticed this as well and even the wiki has been updated to mention this anomaly. Hopefully they can fix it.

I have the opposite problem. I am getting upgrades almost every time. Salvaging 100s of greens per day.

Kurppa.9473:

Any1 noticed that after latest patch (26th November) the chance of getting upgrades is a lot more than 20%? I dislike this alot and wouldnt mind if the chance was 0%. Minor sigils/runes are so useless, I just want my mats and luck from salvaging.

Definitely.

I’m getting inventory panes filled with trash sigils (that sell for 16c)

I don’t know about getting nothing at all…. but I have definitely seen a huge increase in the salvage chance for sigils.