Talk:Salvage

How can a salvage kit be used with a collector? --Karlos 09:07, 4 Jul 2005 (EST)

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you're asking if you can salvage collector's items, the answer is no.


 * Well, you can salvage collector's armor. --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 22:26, 4 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * What Karlos was was referring to (months ago...) was the wording in the article. And he edited it first... but I'm going to save my edit over his since I don't think it's worthwhile to point out collector items in particular, since they fall under "weapons" and "armor."  --Fyren 22:45, 4 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * It's scary because I was being serious not sarcastic! :) --Karlos 23:02, 4 Oct 2005 (EST)

Salvaging Weapon Upgrades
We need to mention some where that unlike runes, if you salvage a weapon upgrade off a weapon there is a chance you might get nothing. i.e. If you have a sundering bow of fortitude and you try to salvage either upgrade, there is a chance you'll end up with materials. I do not think this is stated anywhere. I have failed to find it. So, I am checking here before I add it to this article. --Karlos 20:04, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

because "there is a chance that the item being salvaged will not be destroyed after salvaging. There is a base 50% chance that the item will remain intact, with an additional 3% chance for each rank in the Treasure Hunter and Wisdom titles," if I have an intact dragon sword after salvaging an icy/fiery hilt from it, could I then add another kind of hilt to it to get, for example, a shocking or barbed dragon sword?Go defenestrate yourself.

Difference between "Expert Salvage Kit" and "Superior Salvage Kit"
I have never understood if there was a difference. Except maybe in the number of "charges"...

But is there any "functional difference" ? Can we salvage more with a superior than an expert kit ?


 * The only difference is the number of charges. --Rainith 13:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Newbie salvaging questions
As a new player, I've got a couple questions that might be common sense, but are probably still worth mentioning:
 * Do you get more gold (on average) selling or Basic Salvage/selling, or Expert Salvage/selling most items?
 * Do different "color" items yield different things? Am I better off salvaging a purple I don't need than selling it?
 * Do the item type dictate what you'll get when you salvage it? What items yield what materials?
 * If I use an Expert Kit on lower level stuff, is it a waste of the kit, or can I still find rare materials with the same frequency?


 * I believe that it's only worth salvaging "Highly Salvageable" items for materials. You have to look at the piece and see if it's worth more to just sell or for the salvage rewards. For example a staff might give you one bone or sell for 12 gold. Bone is usually worth only 3 gold so you'd be better of just selling the item. There are lists online of what materials items salvage into. Using an Expert Kit on lower level stuff gives you 100% more chance of getting rares than using a normal kit (as it's not possible to get rares with a normal kit at all) but the chance is still very low because of the item level. - BeXoR 02:16, 21 July 2006 (CDT)

How to tell if you can get a rune?
How can you tell if an item is carrying a rune or upgrade? I see that a prefix or suffix is a giveaway, but what if the item doesn't have one? If I have a blue Healing Ankh, with a blue attribute (Smiting Prayers +1), does that mean I could get a Minor Smiting Prayers rune?


 * no... to get runes you need to look at Salvage Items, not weapons. --Jamie [[Image:Jamie.jpg|24px|(Talk Page)]] 05:22, 26 June 2006 (CDT)

Prefix or Suffix?
If you have a Sundering Bow of Fortitude and you salvage it, is there a way to know if you'll get the Sundering prefix or the Fortitude suffix? --Arkhyn, 11:10, 26 June 2006
 * Seems to be completely random. Murphy's Law though means you always get the one you don't want --221.84.170.134 09:12, 26 June 2006 (CDT)
 * In my experience the salvage sometimes fails and you get materials instead. Only when there are two mods though. - BeXoR 02:16, 21 July 2006 (CDT)

Higly Salvageable++
Anyone ever gotten a blue with Highly Salvageable AND a Prefix/Suffix? As far as i can remember this the first time it happened to me, Highly Salvageable Raven Staff Of Enchanting (13%).69.142.43.110 18:32, 26 September 2006 (CDT)
 * I've had it once or twice. Always gotten the weapon mod. and nothing else.  --Rainith 21:43, 26 September 2006 (CDT)
 * Same, always received the mod and never the materials.--&mdash; xis10al  [[Image:Xis10al_sig_icon.jpg]] 22:23, 26 September 2006 (CDT)
 * As a note, I just got a precious Longbow of Marksmanship. --Rainith 21:55, 28 September 2006 (CDT)
 * I've received mats over mods from blue HS items with mods with an expert slavage. However, usually I just use a common slavage kit to slavage HS items with mods --- but I always use expert slavage on un-modded HS items, because the chance to slavage 4-5 steel or suchlike is just too hot to resist. --Carmine 16:07, 21 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Yes, AFAIK you'll never get a mod from a regular salvage kit, only from an expert or superior one. --Rainith 21:04, 21 October 2006 (CDT)

Salvage Armor...
Finally!! After maybe 10 months of waiting! I have proof that units (in Tyria at least) drop salvage armor even of other units. I remember when I made this claim, many people thought I was insane (including Rainith I believe) :) now I have proof at last!! If it changes nothing, it proves I am not insane. :)

Here it is, a Jade Bow dropping Mursaat Garments:



--Karlos 00:02, 20 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Sorry Karlos, that is not news. Jade are Mursaat as far as drops are concerned.  See Mursaat Garments, Jade Bow and Jade Armor.  Also I believe that Ether Seals are also considered Mursaat as far as drops go, I know I've gotten Mursaat Tokens from them.  --Rainith 11:05, 20 October 2006 (CDT)


 * No, not news. But you sir and others refused to believe that Jade Armors would drop a TYPE of armor different than their own. I cannot find the talk page now, but when I said that the Jade Armor can drop Mursaat Garments or the the Mursaat can drop Jade Armors (the loot item) you guys were all like, what? that never happens. Well, I was just documenting here that it does. --Karlos 14:48, 20 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Nope, not what I said. Jade have no armor of their own.  There is the mysterious Jade Gorget which only drops from chests (in UW/FOW and I think possibly from the Kilroy quest chests), but the Jade never drop that (or if they ever have I've never seen it and no one has ever reported that they do).  Our discussion was about, I think, some type of dwarven armor, but I honestly don't remember.
 * You said (and I am paraphrasing here from memory, so feel free to correct me) that for example any type of dwarven armor can be dropped by any dwarf. i.e. that a Stone Summit Gnasher is capable of dropping Dwarven Armors, Dwarven Warrior Armors, Dwarven Robes, etc...  My response was that there are set salvage item drops for set creatures.  They don't always make much sense, but that they are set.
 * My theory cannot be proven (as you can't prove that something will never-ever, not in a million years, never drop from a specific creature, just that it is highly unlikely), but you could prove me wrong. If you would like to, I have a simple way for you to do it.  I think the easiest place to do so would be Traveler's Vale, simply solo through there and note which salvage armors drop from which dwarves.  Check them against the pages here and see if you find a difference.  And if you do get a Dwarven Warrior Armor from a Gnasher, get a screen cap of it for me would you.  :)  --Rainith 21:04, 20 October 2006 (CDT)

Salvage Cursor Icon Explanation
With the new (and more complicated) salvaging of items I think it would be helpful to mention and describe the different icons of the salvage kit mouse cursor. T.T.H. 18:50, 27 October 2006 (CDT)

Highly Salvageable
Highly Salvageable redirects here, but this page doesn't answer a question I had about HS items. Does the highly salvageable mod add only to the number of crafting materials obtainable from salvaging, or also to the chance for rares from expert salvaging? I believe I've seen comments saying that the HS inscription adds to the chance to get, for example, rubies or sapphires, but I can't find an authoritative source for that. — HarshLanguage 22:47, 25 January 2007 (CST)
 * A related question, now that I think of it: do expert kits always yield a higher # of crafting materials, if they don't yield rare materials? I seem to recall expert-salvaging some drops, hoping for rares, and got 1 regular mat instead. But that was probably a lower-level item, it was a while ago since I tried. — HarshLanguage [[Image:qswearing_small.png|HarshLanguage]] 22:49, 25 January 2007 (CST)
 * In my experience, the answer to your 2nd question is No. I've consumed numerous Expert and Normal salvage kits testing just that, and I found that on average I got the same number of non-rare Materials. Expert Salvage doesn't appear to give more non-rare. Entropy 02:09, 26 January 2007 (CST)