Salvage item

Definition
Salvage Items are items designed with one main purpose: to salvage them into materials or runes.

Technically speaking Salvage Items are not the only items in the game that can be can be salvaged. Still, the term "Salvage Item" is reserved to refer to those items labeled Salvage Item by their ingame description. Other items may be salvaged too, but it is not the intended main purpose.

Salvage Items split into these sub-types:
 * Armor taken from a dead foe's body.
 * Salvage armor pieces do not stack in the inventory, but may contain runes. The armor cannot be worn by players.
 * Prophecies campaign:
 * [[Image:Salvage Heavy Armor.JPG]] [[Image:Salvage Medium Armor.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage Light Armor.jpg]]
 * Factions campaign:
 * [[Image:Salvage Vambrace.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage Boots.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage Garb.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage_Garb2.jpg ]] [[Image:Salvage Trappings.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage Rainment.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage Cape.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage Cape2.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage_Head.JPG ]] [[Image:Salvage_Helm.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage _Pauldron.jpg|45px]]


 * Hides, Half-digested Food, Spider Webs
 * These items do stack in the inventory, but never contain any runes.
 * [[Image:Salvage Hide.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage Rolled Hide.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage Meat.jpg]] [[Image:Salvage Web.jpg]]

Acquisition
Salvage Items are dropped by mobs slain in the game.

You can not buy Salvage Items from any merchants or traders. You can trade for them with other players.

Salvaging Materials
As mentioned above, extracting common or rare crafting materials from them is the main purpose of Salvage Items.

To salvage materials you can use different types of Salvage Kits, with different result:
 * Using a (Basic) Salvage Kit will result in common crafting material.
 * Using an Expert Salvage Kit or Superior Salvage Kit will result in either a larger amount of common crafting material or, with a certain chance, in rare crafting materials.

For more information on salvaging, see: Salvage.

Salvaging and Identifying Runes
If a Salvage Item's title is blue, purple or golden it is guaranteed to contain a rune. (See: Item rarity)

To salvage a rune from a Salvage Item you must use an Expert Salvage Kit or Superior Salvage Kit. The chance to retrieve a rune with such a kit is 100%.

Warning: Using a (Basic) Salvage Kit will destroy the rune and you will only get common crafting material as the salvage result.

To unlock the rune, you must identify it, using an Identification Kit. You can do this before or after you have salvaged the rune, though there have been reports that identification post-salvage does not always provide an unlock. Unknown if this is an occasional bug or a recent change.

''Warning: Some players sell unidentified salvage items to other players so they can use it to unlock runes. There is a possible scam to be aware of when buying such items.''

Selling
Salvage Items can be sold to merchants as is without salvaging them. This can actually bring in more gold than salvaging a minor rune that will sell for the minimum price of 25 gold at a Rune Trader.

List
For a list of Salvage Items see: Salvage Items Category