I don't know anyone in our guild that decons for rare resources. One of our guild requirements is to keep your harvesting up, so rare materials are (somewhat) readily available.
What's not easy to get however, is the dusts/orbs/etc to actually make the better items (like dusts of Striking).
I don't know if decon'ing still results in a skewed tier rare resource, but I do know that when I'm looking for T2 Orbs of Pure Magic to craft bows, I can decon level 5 Crossbows and manage to get them. By the same token, decon'ing a level 35 bow with the Amateur decon recipe will only yield T2 rares.
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