Guild Wars 2

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Oh! I honestly figured that “rarer material” was, eg, getting a gemstone drop when mining ore. The “iron ore” or “orichalcum ore” was the basic stuff. The gem (or firefox cluster, or whatever) was the rarer thing, which you got more frequently.

Just a hypothesis at the moment on what a “rarer material” is, but will most more when I discover more.

If you look at the talk page on the wiki, I asked the very simple question of “What is meant by a rarer material?” My assumption, and I believe a lot of others in the community, is that a Tier 6 material when salvaging is rarer than a Tier 5 material. The assumption was made and clearly stated that a Tier 6 material is considered to be the rarer material. What if our assumptions are wrong? What if a rarer material was not a percentage of Tier +1 proc at all?

What if a rarer material is just that; an increase on the chance of a rarer (think item quality now) material. In the study, there were no salvages that ever produced this so called rarer material because a 10% increase or a 25% increase on something that has a 0% chance to begin with is still 0%.

I may need to perform another study on Rare item quality gear as the Glob of Ectoplasm is added into the salvage results table. Perhaps the Glob of Ectoplasm falls into the category for rarer material when a part is salvaged.

If you to take a look at the talk page for the Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic, I had asked the same question; What is a “rarer” material? My assumption, incorrect of otherwise, is that a standard roll produces a Tier 5 material, and a Tier 6 is a “rarer” material. I would expect to see this outcome 25% of the time based on the description, but I am only seeing this 10% of the time.

I have been testing the functionality of the Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic through the use of a formal study to determine if the 25% chance of rarer materials is accurate. My preliminary findings prior to the study were that it was much closer to 10%, and after performing the study, I was able to conclude that the rate of producing a rarer material was much less than 25%. What I had experienced in my preliminary findings were completely accurate that the rate of rarer materials is much closer to 10%.

I have posted additional information on the Talk page of the wiki for the Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic as well.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talk:Silver-Fed_Salvage-o-Matic#Rarer_Materials_and_25.25_chance

Attached are my raw data results for you to review and perform your own internal analysis.