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 most quest items, weapon upgrades, and runes can be salvaged for crafting materials. Highly salvageable items, once identified, provide substantially more materials than other items. Unique items can now be chosen to be salvaged for crafting materials.

As of the October 25th update, when salvaging for a rune/upgrade with an Expert or Superior Kit as listed below, players have the choice of the upgrade they want to attempt to salvage. For example, if you use an Expert or Superior salvage kit on an Hale Staff of Enchanting, a dialog will come up asking you if you'd like to attempt to salvage the Hale staff head, the Enchanting staff wrapping, or just for crafting materials.

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 is often referred to as the Basic Salvage Kit. This kit will only salvage common crafting materials from items. If an item contains a rune or weapon upgrade then a basic salvage kit will not retrieve it nor does it salvage rare crafting material from any salvagable item.
 * 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 will salvage common crafting materials or a chance at rare crafting materials along with a chance at salvaging a weapon upgrade from a weapon or a rune applied to a players armor. A rune on a dropped salvage item will always provide the rune when salvaged.
 * 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 functions 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.

You will find that buying 5 Imperial Commendations for each from other players will lower the cost of Superior Salvage Kit to. If you use this method each Salvage will cost only each.