Salvage

Salvaging is a process used in order to garner common crafting materials, rare crafting materials, runes and weapon upgrades from Salvage Items, weapons, and armor.

All items except for collector weapons, quest items, Unique items, weapon upgrades, and runes can be salvaged for crafting materials. Highly salvagable items provide substantially more materials than other items.

When a player salvages an item containing a rune or upgrade with an Expert or Superior Salvage Kit, the player will be offered a choice to salvage any of the upgrades or materials.
 * Should the player choose to salvage an upgrade, the player will always receive the chosen upgrade. However, 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. Some items, such as Hero armor, cannot actually be destroyed by salvaging.
 * Should the player choose to salvage materials, there is a chance that the player will receive rare crafting materials instead of common crafting materials. This option will always destroy the item salvaged.

Salvaging can be carried out using the following kits:

(Basic) Salvage Kit
Pre-Searing
 * 10 Uses
 * Cost:
 * Cost per use: per Salvage

Post-Searing The Salvage Kit will only salvage common crafting materials from items. A Salvage Kit cannot retrieve weapon upgrades or runes from an item, nor can it salvage rare crafting materials.
 * 25 Uses
 * Cost:
 * Cost: 1 Monastery Credit
 * Cost: 1 Imperial Commendation
 * Cost: 1 Luxon Totem
 * Cost: 1 Equipment Requisition
 * Cost per use: per Salvage

Expert Salvage Kit
The Expert Salvage Kit is used to salvage weapon upgrades and runes from items. In addition, when used to salvage for materials it has a chance of extracting rare crafting materials.
 * 25 Uses
 * Cost:
 * Cost: 3 Monastery Credits
 * Cost: 3 Imperial Commendations
 * Cost: 3 Luxon Totems
 * Cost: 3 Equipment Requisitions
 * Cost per use: per Salvage

Superior Salvage Kit

 * 100 Uses
 * Cost:
 * Cost: 5 Imperial Commendations
 * Cost: 5 Luxon Totems
 * Cost: 5 Equipment Requisitions
 * Cost per use: per Salvage

The Superior Salvage Kit is functionally the same as the Expert Salvage Kit, but has more uses. The only real benefit is to save on inventory space and trips to merchants.