Salvage dropping outside of appropriate level range.

[Luminara]

I noticed this occurrence on each of the last few characters I leveled... and subsequently forgot about it within minutes.  I'm erratic, sue me.

 

Mid-tier salvage begins dropping well before level 25, and final-tier salvage is dropping well before 41.  Corresponding recipes, which could use said salvage, do not drop out of their appropriate level ranges.

 

 

Here's an example.  Note that this character just hit level 36, but has salvage like Titanium Shard and Temporal Tracer.  I'm 5 levels below the correct level range for that salvage, and this is happening on +0 difficulty.

[Honorbridge]

The level bands for salvage have always had a 5 level overlap where it starts dropping early, so that’s normal and expected.  Pools are 4-25 for low level, 20-39 for mid level, 35-50 for high level.  Recipe drops are based on critter level, or rounded to the nearest multiple of 5 for generic IOs, so the described behavior is also expected.  The reasons things were done this way may be inscrutable, but it’s the way it has always been.

[Luminara]

 

I'm level 33 in this screenshot.  That's 8 levels below level 41, the threshold at which recipes begin using this salvage, and unless something's changed in the last couple of minutes, the enhancements we can craft with this wouldn't even be usable for another 5 levels.

[Honorbridge]

Still fighting at level, I presume?  Increased difficulty, whether solo settings (+1) or from teaming, could result in those drops, but they should not drop from level 33 mobs.

If you identify what you were fighting, it could give the devs a place to start checking drop tables.

[Luminara]

3 hours ago, Honorbridge said:

Still fighting at level, I presume?

 

Yup.

 

3 hours ago, Honorbridge said:

If you identify what you were fighting, it could give the devs a place to start checking drop tables.

 

First mission of The Library of Souls, Circle of Thorns.

 

On reflection, I hadn't started that mission yet.  I stopped in the station to check my salvage after zoning into Talos, before I started hoofing it to the mission in the screenshot.  So the salvage could've come from the last mission of Kelly Nemmers' arc (Hatred's Hungry Heart, Stop the eternal battle), or from the Retrieve Council Robot Parts mission from Allison King, which I had to do to unlock her arc.

Edited April 13 by Luminara

[Honorbridge]

Hmm, by any chance did you run into that bug where Council bosses/Lts. are pulling from the wrong subgroup, and are over leveled for the mission as a result? Because if you got some bugged lvl 35 councils, that might explain the high level salvage (they drop the entire list of mid and high level salvage at 35.)

[Luminara]

7 minutes ago, Honorbridge said:

Hmm, by any chance did you run into that bug where Council bosses/Lts. are pulling from the wrong subgroup, and are over leveled for the mission as a result?

 

No.