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-categories:
 * Armor taken from a dead foe's body.
 * Salvaged armor pieces do not stack in the inventory, but may contain runes. The armor cannot be worn by players.


 * Hides skinned from a dead foe's body
 * Hides do stack in the inventory, but never contain any runes


 * Half-digested Food taken from the foes stomach.
 * "Half-eaten" items do stack in the inventory, but never contain any runes.

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

You can not buy Salvage Item from any merchants or traders. You can buy them from a fellow gamer, but that would be uncommon.

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 shows a blue, purple or golden color it is guarantueed 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 retreive 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.

''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.