Guild Wars 2

Honestly, I only ran AB for crafting my gear. I needed the ecto for ascended backpacks, exotics with Ineffable Insignia, etc. The event was also a good way to get mats from all tiers for crafting ascended materials.

Yes, I sold some extra Ecto (In total probably 100 gold in 8 months), but used it all as I got it to buy low drop crafting materials for a set of ascended armor. Some of those materials are almost impossible to farm in the numbers required and have to be bought, Hardened Leather Section, for instance.

Your skepticism is appreciated, but I wasn’t one of the people making thousands of gold off of this.

From what I understand in the patch notes, the Auric Basin Multi Map has gone the way of Old Yeller……..

It’s understandable that this has been removed, as it was a loophole in the event that allowed players to receive more rewards than was earned. Additionally, players not accustomed to mutimapping were at a huge disadvantage in crafting/ the economy (if salvaged items were sold instead of used). This being said, it was the only way to reliably obtain globs of ectoplasm.

Under the old system, you could probably get 30-40 ecto/ 30 minute session with anchors (8 Maps). Too much, yes, but is there anyone else that has trouble getting those anywhere else. Even with a monotonous schedule of world bosses and fractal dailies, or silver waste trains with 3 hours/ day you might make 10-14 ecto in that time. That means if you are spending any time outside of your main character leveling another profession or learning other builds it becomes a burden.

Does anyone else agree/ disagree, or are there better ways of finding rare equipment to salvage? I’m not trying to be a spoiled gamer, but the drop rate of rares in this game needs to go up in harder content. It is a relentless grind to find these items in the game, and people that have taken advantage of the system will sell Ectoplasm for a huge markup now that the MM is gone.