Guild Wars 2

I just completed my regular task of crafting a dozen rares and salvaging them. I got ZERO globs of ectoplasm from twelve rares.

Is this an incredibly bad stroke of RNG luck or is this a new bug. Either way, I’m not at all pleased at having wasted 10 days of gathering work to get ZERO ectos!

I have been wondering this myself, as I never felt anything was wrong with the ecto drop rate until a couple days ago when the login servers went offline on the 7th. I logged on at some point afterward and had 19 exotics to salvage for runes and ecto. I used Black Lion salvage kits and got a whopping total of 2 ectoplasm out of 19 salvages. On average before I got 1-3 almost every time with an occasional salvage of no ecto with that happening a maximum of 2-3 times in a row. This was 1 salvage out of 19 yielding 2 ecto.

Needless to say I was incredibly PO’d but wrote it off as extremely bad luck. However, yesterday I had another group of exotics and salvaged about 5 or 6 getting no ectoplasm again from any and stopping from frustration. Now the remaining exotics are in my bank as I am not wasting anymore of them or my Black Lion salvage kits on what I assume is a bug.

(On a side note from what I understand the salvage kit you use should have no effect on your chance of ectoplasm I was just using the Black Lion ones to get a 100% chance to get the rune off the item.)

Anyone else having similar issues?

I think that it was just a bad run of luck. Yesterday I salvaged for ecto’s 2 x
first was morning, had 6 crafted rares and 3 dropped rares and got 13 ecto’s
second was evening, had 4 dropped rares (from fotm) got 7 ecto’s

used BLSK’s