EP is gained via missions only now. disenchants will be converted to crafting materials

They are being converted into crafting materiel when you open the chests. The pieces of gear appear in the payout to show you where the material is coming from.

I think the question Tony is asking is the same thing I am wondering. However, I will split it into two examples for the sake of clarity.

Example 1: Open a single chest. View each card separately. When gear appears, click "disenchant" for that item. Get materials.

Example 2: Open 100 chests. View all cards at once. Both materials AND gear all appear. No single gear is given the option to disenchant.

So I guess the question would be if the gear in example 2 is just there to show the player what WAS disenchanted, and the materials on the top-left show the results of those auto-disenchants. Ergo, if the screen says "You got this duplicate rare gear", the player did not actually GET that duplicate rare gear (hence, no EP from the item), as that gear was automatically turned into 1 of the rare materials on the top-left. If there are 8 rare gears, then 1 of those came from the aforementioned rare duplicate.

In other words, if a player were to count the exact number of materials and duplicate gear on the screen, those two numbers should be the same.

Since apparently some are not understanding the explanations, and therefor their answers are not...well, answering much, I will provide a clear, actual example, then provide 2 ways of answering. Choose one of those two ways. "A" or "B". ONLY those answers will suffice, in an effort to end the confusion.

http://oi68.tinypic.com/j924bm.jpg

In the above image, there are 8 gained common materials and 3 common gears clearly marked. Below are possible explanations, marked as "A" and "B". Choose which one is correct by ONLY saying "A" or "B". Say nothing else, to avoid further confusion.

A: I obtained 8 common materials and 3 duplicates that were NOT disenchanted.

B: I obtained 5 common materials and 3 duplicates that WERE disenchanted, totaling 8 common materials, but still showing the gear that WAS disenchanted.

So then B. Problem solved.

Note: 1 gear disenchanted does NOT equal 1 common gear piece. Ergo, those three gears may have disenchanted into 3, 3, and 2 common materials, respectively.

Andreas, the official blog does not explain what happens when opening multiple chests at once. Opening single chests works entirely differently than opening many at once. And how does "play history" answer this question? Nothing in the player stats mentions materials in any capacity, let alone how to read the results of opening many chests after the new patch.

I'd be in favor of simply not displaying the Duplicate cards, and perhaps giving the Material cards a very unique look like shades of red borders or something.