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I understand that guesting a server last 24hr.
However, one of my guest pass didn’t get expire after 24hr & show that it will expire in another 12hr.
Any idea? Or I’m having the wrong idea about guesting?
Not very sure about TA exp (Didn’t run before), but the item name give away which path will drop it.
Same as AC, Colossus Fang & Claw of Howling King make it pretty obvious.
Orichalcum jewelry is currently up to 3.5g for most of them, with the exception of opal. Considering you need 5 ectos (~1.6g,), 5 orbs (no more than 20s), and minimum 14 orichalcum ingots(dunno, ~1g?), you can make a decent profit, 70s if you buy all mats. Salvaging ectos cuts this down severely, as does ori node farming.
So yea, Jewelers right now are viable for profit.
You forgot the 15% tax. -.-
You won’t make that much profit off Oric Jewelery.
“They are obtained randomly at a very low rate from large chests rewarded for defeating Claw of Jormag,Tequatl the Sunless, and The Shatterer and for capturing Temples in Orr or from explorer mode dungeon chests. They can also be obtained randomly when placing four level 75 or higher rare or exotic weapons into the Mystic Forge”
You don’t need that many space for discovering cooking recipe. Since 101 of the mats are deposit-able & appear on discovery panel.
Ah, I forgot about cooking ingredients. It’s true that most of the materials can be deposited in the bank, it’s kind of annoying that advanced ingredients like Balls of Dough (I’m talking about ingredients that aren’t consumable food in themselves) can’t be stored. It’s not an issue for me as I bought all the extra Bank tabs and so I just dedicate one tab to cooking materials, but I agree that space can become a bit of a premium for a Chef.
Yea, ingredients can’t be deposit into collectible, that’s unfortunate.
But in the first place, why you craft them out & not using it? lol
Sigh.. that’s why I put that link & end this thread.
I know it’s tradeable now. But Dev Lindsey has hinted they may change into account bound in future, so no point keep talking about it anymore.
Unless, they change their mind again & not making it into account bound.
Not sure if you did read carefully before hit quote.
i don’t think you know the difference between “soulbound on use” and “soulbound”
Then i don’t think you talking something that’s related to the thread anymore.
Moreover, I do know the different & sentence was directly copied from Official GW2 Wiki.
Someone posted few days back.
The guide has been updated, use to be 1g guide but now @ 1.85g due to mats price change.
Especially Pile of Tangy Seasoning, from 6c to 2.3s.
Cooking, no.
Armorsmith, yes.
Jeweler, yes.
Weaponsmith, yes.
The rest I’m not sure, didn’t have those profession.
Profiting from profession isn’t easy, from time to time you loss profit.
Unless you hunt mats yourself & sell them if item profit is higher than total mats profit.
I don’t think that many people farm low level map for lower tier mats anymore.
I think most people just farm abit of money & buy them directly instead or just massive purchase the supplies bag, resell those extra mats.
No. Why you need that many slot?
If you have additional tab for inventory, full 20 slot bag. That’s 140 space.
Bank 8 tab, 30slot/ea give you total of 240 space.
Guild Bank full Architecture upgrade give 250 space.
That’s total 630 space you have. -.-
Or without those additional tab, you have 380 space.
It is possible that when the tooltip for the higher end salvage kit says “25% chance for rarer materials” it means “25% higher chance for rarer materials”. Thus, if the base chance is 10%, it could only be going up to 12.5% for example. I’ve seen that kind of “math text” error before (and worse, just completely wrong numbers, which were not discovered for years) in another MMO.
That’s what I think too & same thing applied to MF.
Its full name is “Emerald Orichalcum Ring of The Knight”, and yes it was affected by the patch which was the point i was trying to convey.
Not just Knights Set PvP specific got changed.
For gawd sack, we all know “of the Knight” item.
What the changelog did is to the sPVP item, “Knight Jewel”. Not knight set or jewelry. That’s 2 different thing.
Emerald (accessory) or Knight Set (Armor) has always been that stat (Power, precision, toughness), no changes.
The only PVE set that give that stat (Toughness, Vitality, Power) are karma set.
Which bring this question back to me. Did you read the 2nd link I posted previously?
Those Lvl 60 exotic are because of the superior rune that been socketed inside.
I don’t know if you can get them by throwing Lv60 rares, since mostly came out being a lvl 68 above rare or lvl 76-80 exotic.
It suppose to be a better grade of material with the rarer mats chance. I might be wrong too.
But the table show out of 188 salvage, 35 of it are T6 mats. That means the chance of showing T6 are 18.62% chance. -.-
But then again, out of 119 BLSK salvage only 14 time show T6 mats. That’s 11.764%, which is pretty odd.
About that Ecto is a special material. It DID stated on the wiki before.
But however, someone edited the page.
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What I understand from you (in this and another post where you posted some youtube vids) is that Ecto is into a separate category and has a chance to be salvaged from lvl 68+ rares/exos using any kit. I’ve heard this before, but without any data to back it up.
If that is so, I am really interested in such data. If you could share them with me here, or enter them in my Entry Form (link in my sig). That would be really nice.
On the other hand, you did not answer my questions regarding your earlier post. Check my questions above: basically, as per your claim, if Ectos are “special” under a separate category, why does BLSK have a very low chance (~ 1%) of yielding T6 mats from high lvl rares?
About that video is to show Ecto doesn’t affect by salvage kit “rarer material”.
Because all of us know that CSK have 0% of yielding rarer material but Ecto still appear during the salvage with CSK. I tested few rares only, can’t prove much.
For that question, I can’t answer. Also, i’m not sure why BLSK would give you a low chance of yielding T6 mats from high lvl rares. I’ll test them out.
Also, I would like to contribute something I test too. But however, I’m only able to do few salvaging, that can’t be any real use to it.
Edit: Not sure if that information help in future, insert some crude salvaging done by me.
If that is the case, how do you explain rare items yielding both T6 mats and Ectos at the same time when salvaged? T6 mats at the rate of less than 1% though, mind you.
And also, if what you are saying is true, salvaging a bunch of Level 80 Acolyte Coats with a BLSK should give a very high yield and percentage of Gossamer scraps, since by your definition it is the only “rarer mats” that such an item can produce and BLSK has a 50% chance to produce “rarer mats”. Even a Master/Mythic SK should give you 25% chance of getting Goss, which is very significant, and would make the price of Goss much cheaper.
I’ve not personally seen this to be true. Can anyone attest to it?
You’re right, BLSK would give a 1/2 chance getting gossamer scrap & Master would give 1/4.
But I don’t think anyone will be willing spend 5g worth BLSK to salvage 25 time light armor (20s/salvage) or using a MSK to salvage (61.4/salvage). This is not profitable.
The cheapest way to get gossamer scrap is by opening heavy moldy bag (2.4s/ea). Even if it didn’t get a single gossamer, the other mats can be resell for profit.
Edit: Oh yea, I read the changelog & i think you have the wrong idea.
Knight Jewel[s] are PvP item, it originally should be giving +75 power but gave +75 toughness instead.
I think what you trying to say is the Knight set, which is totally different thing.
Jeweler don’t craft Knight Jewel, but Emerald.
An example of Lv 80 Heavy Equip, salvage is will give mithril & x% give orichalcum.
Ectopalsm is not a basic, fine or rare crafting mat but a Special mats.
Salvaging Lv68-80 Rare give random chance of 0-3 Ecto while Exotic give random of 0-5.
If Ecto are rarer mats. Then crude salvage shouldn’t give you any at all since its 0%.
So I’m sure that Ecto isn’t rarer mats. However, Ecto is a Special mats. This is also stated clearly on official wiki.
Let view it from another point.
If Ecto rarer mats, why don’t we get Fine Mats (Bone, Fang, Claw etc..) off salvaging?
You’re correct. Ecto are not “rarer” mats. Rarer mats refers to the chance of getting Tier+1 common materials from salvage vs . Tier+0. I.e. a Level 80 Acolyte Coat can give Silk Scrap or Gossamer Scrap, and Gossamer Scrap is the rarer material.
It does appear, from this data, that the BLSK has a somewhat-higher rate of Ecto-salvage (something that wasn’t true previously). Mystic/Master kits give ~0.92-0.95E/Salvage, while the BLSK gives ~1.27E/Salvage.
BLSK is expensive enough that an extra 0.35E/S is not enough of an advantage for me. A BLSK costs 300 Gems, which, if you convert Gold->Gems->BLSK is 5.1G for 25 uses (or 20 silver per use).
I don’t think you’ll get an exotic by throwing 4 lvl 30 rares.
Since exotic are lvl 80, you might need lvl 76-80 rare for a small chance getting exotic.
The data is clear, and from my experience as well, the only time you make a profit salvaging items for ecto is when you use a BLSK. Any other time you will lose money unless you’re exceptionally lucky. The game is designed to make you a loser unless you pay real life money. So much for no advantage etc…
*Just salvaged 47 level 80 rares, half weapon half armor, got about 58 ectos out of it with BLSKs. I believe that would have been even less if we used regular kits, which in and of themselves are expensive enough as is.
This has been my thought so far. It seems on average, Mythic and Master do not make profit, so better sell item instead of using them; BLSK is the way to go to make ectos.
I’d like to know if there is a difference between using different quality salvage kits to salvage SOLELY for ectos. That is, is there a difference in “drop rate” of ectos when using crude or basic salvage kits as compared to when using Black Lion Salvage Kits? Regardless of the answer could whoever answers please substantiate this with evidence/ a reply from a dev?
Thank you very much.
Yea me too :P
From my understanding and observation so far, I am almost sure that Ectos are the “rarer mats” listed on the kits, and as such, lower grade kits like “crude” or “basic” will/should yield less Ectos. However, I am too poor to take the risk atm to test those out.
The good news is, I have a “Data Entry Form” for people to help out! If you feel basic salvage kits should be included, please feel free to test them and record the data in the “entry form” and I will be more than happy to make the adjustments to the sheet to include any new kit and compile its data.
Otherwise, you can send me the rares and I will do the tests myself and send you back whatever mats I get, or you can simply donate the rares for research.
If Ecto are rarer mats. Then crude salvage shouldn’t give you any at all since its 0%.
So I’m sure that Ecto isn’t rarer mats. However, Ecto is a Special mats. This is also stated clearly on official wiki.
Let view it from another point.
If Ecto rarer mats, why don’t we get Fine Mats (Bone, Fang, Claw etc..) off salvaging?
I don’t really have a hard time if 1v1 them. Just use stomp, endure pain, fear me & SoR.
I also use a bow as alternative instead of rifle because of the immobilize skill instead of cripple.
25 stack of might boost 875 power at level 80. (that’s like 1 more rare 80 GS on another hand lol)
Signet of Might (Passive) boost 90 power at level 80. That total boost 965 power. (from rare GS power to exotic GS power now)
Vulnerability can be apply by normal GS attack or “On My Mark”. Increase 1% damage/stack.
Plus if you have Attack of Opportunity trait (Increases damage to bleeding foes by 10%.), Berserker’s Power trait (Increases damage based how much adrenaline you have built. Stage 3: 12%) & Slashing Power trait (Greatsword and spear damage is increased by 10%).
That total boost your damage by 32%
So a fully gear pure glass cannon can hit very high damage like 50k(?).
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