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, Charr 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.

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[edit] Salvage in detail

Not all inventory items can be salvaged - starter equipment and armor, 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 Yes No No No Yes
Expert Salvage Kit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Superior Salvage Kit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Perfect Salvage Kit No No Yes Yes No

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. Expert and superior salvage kits can also be used to salvage crafting materials. Perfect kits are guaranteed to extract an upgrade without destroying the item, but cannot salvage crafting materials.

[edit] Salvage components

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 salvagable 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 retained. 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). Superior Salvage Kits are also available from merchants in towns and outposts later on in the game.

Type Uses Cost Cost per use
Salvage Kit 25 100 Gold 4 Gold
Expert Salvage Kit 25 400 Gold 16 Gold
Superior Salvage Kit 100 2 Platinum 20 Gold
Perfect Salvage Kit1 5 250 Gold 50 Gold
1 Perfect salvage kits require 25Wood Plank(s), 25Iron Ingot(s), and one skill point to craft, in addition to the gold cost.

[edit] Notes

  • Salvaging runes or upgrade components from hero armor will never destroy the armor. Hero armor cannot be salvaged for crafting materials.
  • Several items obtained through no effort cannot be salvaged. For example: all "starter" weapons, the armor pieces you begin the game wearing, and the weapon, focus item, or shield your Hero comes with cannot be salvaged.
Bug Bug.
If you manage to salvage an item while the salvage from the previous salvaged item has yet to be produced this will result in an 007 error.
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