Hello everyone!
As you may know, I’ve posted a few threads about farming for legendaries. In the process (along with playing for a few hundred hours on numerous characters), I’ve amassed quite a few epics… with most of them being duplicates. Since I had so far kept every single copy of every single epic / legendary (and I don’t use mods to do so…), I finally decided that having over 20 mules is a little ridiculous. And so, I decided that I’d keep the best 4 of any item and dismantle the rest, and record the results. And so I have.
Summary of results:
(Note: that’s 139 different items - the count is how many I’ve actually dismantled in total).
There are plenty of conclusions to be drawn from the data, but probably the most important one is that it’s roughly one in five rate of getting rare mats from dismantling. Not nearly as good as using the dynamite for troves, but you also get scrap, along with loads of components (and usually, even the common ones will be e.g. amber or flintcore bolts, as opposed to searing ember, etc.)
I haven’t found any trends with level and rare material drop rates - 5 Touch of Malice maces yielded 4 rare mats (level 30 item) whereas 10 Empowered Dreadnought’s Footpads only yielded 3 (level 75 item). Of course, seeing as the sample size for each level band is relatively small, it’s impossible to draw conclusions for a given level (from this data), however, I certainly think that all epics were born equal in regards to their dismantling yields.
Here’s the full data with the list of every single epic dismantled along with their results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D8tQTMcwOg96NcOou4xyPQoMr0-5PqaLLlBlJud9ay8/edit?usp=sharing
(Note: if the google docs don’t work properly, I’m sorry, it’s my first time using them).
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