Salvaging

Magical Salvaging

Magical Salvaging allows you to extract fragments from gear.

Magical Salvaging, or Salvaging, is a gathering profession that allows a player to break down gear and extract fragments from it.

Magical Salvaging will grant crafting ingredients that pair together with the Talisman Making Crafting Profession: Fragments, Magical Essence, and Gold Dust.

Of all the Gathering professions, Magical Salvaging is by far one of the most difficult and expensive to level quickly. However, once maxed at level 200, it can be used to guarantee powerful talismans ingredients.

How to learn Magical Salvaging

Speak to a Salvager in any Capital City to learn the skill.

Speak to vendors in your Capital City to learn this Gathering Profession.

For Order, speak to Franklin Meisse in the Altdorf Market.

For Destruction, speak to Traldor Leadgut in the Apex area of The Inevitable City.

You can also speak to vendors in either Karaz-A-Karak (Order) or Karak Eight Peaks (Destruction).

Getting Started

To Salvage an item, first hit "V" or your default abilities button, and find the Magical Salvaging icon in your abilities. Drop this onto your hotbar, and either click it or hit that hotbar key, and then click on the item you'd like to Salvage.

You can gain the first 25 levels easily by purchasing Shattered Figurine from any Craft Supply Merchant.

These are only 50 copper each and will get you started on the grind towards 200.

PSA: When you break down an item with Magical Salvaging, that item is gone forever. Be careful not to accidentally break down gear you want to keep!

The grind to 200

Items that you can Salvage will say "Salvageable" in Orange, Yellow, Green, or White text to indicate your odds of success. Red text means you cannot attempt to Salvage it yet.

Leveling up Magical Salvaging quickly gets more difficult as you progress, as you will need to use items of at least Uncommon (Green) rarity or higher to continue growing.

Early-on, you can only break down weak gear, and there may be limited amounts or very expensive options on the player Auction House. As you level up, you'll slowly be able to break down stronger and stronger gear.

Each item you salvage has a chance to level up your skill, but sometimes you may need to break down many items in a row before gaining a level.

Leveling tip: NPCs with Salvageable items

Both Order and Destruction players can purchase low-level accessories from the Veteran Renown Gear Merchant that can be salvaged.

While a little costly, you can use these to level up consistently if you can't afford to purchase gear on the Auction House or aren't able to easily farm drops from mobs.

These vendors are located in Southwest Altdorf (Order) and South Inevitable City (Destruction). Look closely at the accessories until you find the 1-2 that can be Salvaged.

Selecting your Fragments

When Salvaging an item, you can select the type of Talisman Fragment you'd like to receive. The higher your level, the higher the chance of success.

A key benefit of Magical Salvaging is the ability to extract a Talisman Fragment of your choice based on the stats on a piece of gear.

For example, if a piece of gear has Strength, Toughness, and Wounds, you'll be able to choose from any of those three stats when you break it down and extract the fragment.

Making money with Salvaging

Once you approach and hit level 200, you'll be able to Salvage almost all gear within the game.

One efficient way to make money with Salvaging is to break down high-level gear, which will grant powerful fragments, and turn these into Talismans to sell to other players. (You'll need the Talisman Making Crafting profession to create Talismans.)

In particular, high-rarity gear from Dungeons, like Gunbad, City dungeons, Bastion Stair, etc, can be broken down for strong fragments. Though not commonly done after the currency unification, you can also spend your War Crests to purchase gear to break down, if you don't need them.