Salvage

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To Salvage an item is attempt to obtain a component or part of that item. The item in question must be salvageable and a Salvage Kit (standard, expert, superior, or perfect) is needed. To salvage an item, simply double-click on the salvage kit and then click on the item to be salvaged. The components that can be salvaged include crafting materials, runes, and upgrade components.

1 Salvage in detail
2 Notes

[edit] Salvage in detail

Not all inventory items can be salvaged - starter equipment, quest items, and unique items cannot be salvaged. The materials, runes, and upgrade components that can be obtained from salvaging cannot in turn be salvaged.

[edit] Salvage kits

Type	Common crafting material	Rare crafting material	Rune	Upgrade component	May destroy item?
Salvage Kit
Expert Salvage Kit
Superior Salvage Kit
Perfect Salvage Kit

There are four types of salvage kits: standard, expert, superior, and perfect. Standard salvage kits, while much cheaper, can only salvage common crafting materials. To have a chance of salvaging rare crafting materials or upgrade components, more expensive kits must be used. Expert and superior kits differ only in the number of uses; both have a base chance (detailed in a later section) of destroying the salvage item when used. Perfect kits are guaranteed to extract an upgrade without destroying the item, but cannot salvage crafting materials.

[edit] Salvage components

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Salvage selection

To salvage an item, double-click on a salvage kit, then click on the target salvage item. For expert, superior, and perfect kits, a salvage component selection window appears. That window displays all the possible salvage components that can be salvaged from the targeted salvage item. The percentage chance of destroying the salvage item is shown for each salvage component. Select the desired salvage component and confirm it (or cancel it to stop the salvage process).

The salvage process will always successfully produce the salvage component; only the salvage item has a chance of getting destroyed. If the salvage item survives, it can then be salvaged again, provided there are still salvage components remaining. The chance of retaining the salvage item applies only to attempts to salvage runes and upgrade components.

Salvaging for crafting materials always destroys the salvage item, regardless of whether you obtained common or rare crafting materials, since it translates to completely dismantling the item. Rare crafting materials are not guaranteed. When salvaging using expert or superior kits, there is a small chance of obtaining rare crafting materials instead of common crafting materials. Salvage items with the highly salvageable inherent modifier or one with the "Measure for Measure" inscription will yield a greater than normal amount of crafting materials when salvaged.

[edit] Chance of retaining salvage item

Expert kits and superior kits have a base 50% chance that the item in question will be destroyed. This does not apply to standard kits and perfect kits (see above). The base chance can be improved by acquiring ranks in the Treasure Hunter and Wisdom title tracks, as shown in the table below (each rank confers a 3% bonus):

Title ranks	Treasure Hunter 0	Treasure Hunter 1	Treasure Hunter 2	Treasure Hunter 3	Treasure Hunter 4	Treasure Hunter 5	Treasure Hunter 6	Treasure Hunter 7
Wisdom 0	50%	53%	56%	59%	62%	65%	68%	71%
Wisdom 1	53%	56%	59%	62%	65%	68%	71%	74%
Wisdom 2	56%	59%	62%	65%	68%	71%	74%	77%
Wisdom 3	59%	62%	65%	68%	71%	74%	77%	80%
Wisdom 4	62%	65%	68%	71%	74%	77%	80%	83%
Wisdom 5	65%	68%	71%	74%	77%	80%	83%	86%
Wisdom 6	68%	71%	74%	77%	80%	83%	86%	89%
Wisdom 7	71%	74%	77%	80%	83%	86%	89%	92%

As shown on the table above, the bonus from both title tracks do stack.

[edit] Cost of salvage

Expert Salvage Kits are generally the most economical way to salvage runes and upgrade components, although obviously calling for more frequent visits to the merchants than the larger kits. The exception to this is if you obtain Superior Salvage Kits from a collector (Nightfall and Factions only).