Guild Wars 2

Thank you Gaile…we will never forget you Doug </3

He was our guild leader, a husband, father, a best friend and the glue that kept us all together, a truly wonderful man.

I agree, the sliding bar is too small and hard to click on, a default or max button is desperately needed.
Overall, the new UI has small buttons to click on, like the up and down arrows for price and quantity.

Templar.4512:

bob.5680:

I really don’t understand why some people that obviously don’t like the game, don’t want to play it, come here and post their complaints (vs useful critiques/criticisms).

I played WoW for a while, didn’t like it, quit playing it and never looked back; and certainly wouldn’t bother posting to some forum what I thought of it.

Because some of us can still see the potential and are waiting for something to bring us back

Maybe you should play the game catch up what you have missed and try out the new season content before passing judgement.

Kinda takes away from the difficulty of the jumping puzzles. I say keep it in for realism

Hmm, managing tags seems to work in WvW, I guess the strong presence of the community in WvW means that they have a better handle on things. Not sure this is possible to carry over to PvE. I do agree that acquiring a tag for 100g is not a sufficient method to prove leadership. God help us if they make tags account bound, because when they do, there will be a huge spike in players with tags, oh noes!

@Stego
Thank you for your original post, data and videos.

@Geotherma
Thank you for consistently keeping the issue going, , data , videos, and keeping your cool :P

@John Smith
Thanks for listening and fixing the error

Mystic.5934:

I was not a believer at first, and my own test showed that not much if anything was wrong, but I gotta say that the length of time John is looking into it indicates that something seems, at least at first glance, wrong to him.

What were your test results?

John Smith.4610:

Hey all, just wanted to let you know I’m still working and I’ll keep you updated as soon as I have something to post.

Thanks John

To back up what Stormageddon just said….

I don’t think people are here claiming they know how things work or what the code is. They are stating that as “end-users” there is sort some of issue, complete with back up data.

I think you misunderstand the point of this thread, which to ask Anet for clarification and help with what appears to be a bug.

New build peoples!!!!!

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.

Here’s a prediction.

The answer will be that the master salvage kits were bugged from day one and should never have given more than 1 ecto to begin with. And this latest patch was the fix.
…sigh

I would be suprised if they would admit they changed it. As it would mean an admission to market manipulation for self profit. What else can you derive from reducing the ecto salvage rate from in game kits and keeping the gem store ones the same? Just because the products are intangiable, does not make it ok to water them down.

When posting salvage numbers, please state more information, especially the type of salvage kit you used. It still looks as though master kits are down.

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Danger Girl.5836:

Beorn Saxon.4762:

C H E C K
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Since February, prices have been cut in half for ecto.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19721

What is your point?

lol.

Prices have been cut in half since rares were guaranteed from dragons. You guys are saying salvage rates were stealth nerfed to near half. Even if that is true, it sounds like all it would do would put them back to their normal prices of a few months ago.

At how cheap they are, you can run CoF for an hour and just buy 50 ecto from your earnings which is way more than you could ever get from salvaging an hours worth of earned CoF tokens.

I am having trouble understanding profits of CoF vs salvaging. Please explain your math.

Beorn Saxon.4762:

C H E C K
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T H E S E
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Since February, prices have been cut in half for ecto.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19721

What is your point?

Beorn Saxon.4762:

PRICES HAVE GONE DOWN since the guaranteed rares from dragons. Even if they did nerf ecto salvage, way more are still being produced vs current demand.

A few months ago they were 33 sliver ea. Now they are 19 silver ea.

Way more what are being produced? Rares? This still does not balance out with changing the salvage rate.
Again, manipulating the market is not the way to do things, supply and demand is the key.

Vol.5241:

Just cause ecto price has risen doesn’t mean they nerfed the rate. Could just be speculators.

Please read what we are all saying. The salvage rate appears to be altered/bugged, thus causing price rise.

I posted my findings earlier (100 lev 80 rares, 51 ectos, no more than 1 per salvage with master salvage kit)
I came to the forum looking for answers (I did not follow it before) as I knew something had changed with my daily 100 rare salvage. I saw nothing in the patch notes, this is the only place I found with people having the same issue.

Someone earlier made an excellent point about changing the salvage rates to make us spend real world money – I really hope this is not true.

I think once you set a bar in a market then you have to keep it and let the people, supply and demand dictate the value of items. Changing the salvage rate for ectos (if it is true), is underhanded, especially when the market involves people that use real world money. Could it possibly even be illegal? So what if ecto prices were dropping? Well then rare prices will rise. Anet need to let it be.

Stego.3148:

I believe the previous .9 was tied purely to master salvage kits where as Black Lion Kits were around 1.25 before this nerf. I’d be curious to see if Black Lion Kits still maintain their 1.25 or if that was nerfed also.

It is most likely an attempt to make Black Lion kits more appealing I don’t see a reason anyone would purchase them currently as the cost to buy that many gems would be vastly higher then the profit you would make on ectos.

I hope that is not the reason, I will be very disappointed in Anet. Friend on mine suggested that sometimes the balance tables can be messed up (technical term lol)after a large patch.

I have been salvaging level 80 rare items everyday for weeks now (average 100 per day). Just now I tried 100 items (lev 80 rare), I too am seeing a 0.50 average, down from what I used to get 0.90. I definitely know something has changed….not one time did I get more than 1 ecto per salvage.