Salvaging for materials

Hi everybody,

Well, I'm saving up and farming for materials for armour. I'm a bit confused about salvaging, though.

Will the common, expert, and superior salvage kits give me different salvage results? I'm looking to get leather squares, and I want to know if there are certain things that I salvage to get them- or if I'm stuck salvaging tanned hide, and then trading those in for the leather squares.

I guess I'm confused about what each kind of salvage kit does/their differences in results.

Thanks for the help!

Using a common salvage kit you salvage an item for common materials, using expert one you get a chance of salvaging into a rare material or more of the common materials, superior kit is the same as expert, cept it has more uses (and costs more). I am not sure the additional cost of using the expert kit is worth it though.

You won't get more of the common materials (iron, tanned hide, etc) by using a more expensive salvage kit. You just get the opportunity to salvage the mods that are on the colored items.

Common Salv = common materials
Exp salv = Mods and some % of Rare materials if the item may have those , otherwise youll have common ones. Amount depends on M4Measure insc .

Do not use any salvage kit below expert - unless you are in pre searing.

Try this link to see what you should be salvaging to get leather squares
http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Leather_Square

Also if you won't use an expert salvage kit you won't get leather as it is a rare material.

To salvage Upgrades/Insignias/Runes/Inscriptions and you do NOT want to loose the item being salvaged from, use a Perfect Salvage Kit.

To salvage Upgrades/Insignias/Runes/Inscriptions and you don`t care if there is a chance to loose the item being salvaged from, use an Expert Salvage Kit or Superior Salvage Kit... only difference between the two is cost & number of salvages. If there are 2 items you absolutely want to pull. you may want to use a Perfect Salvage Kit for the first item and then an Expert/Superior Kit for the second item.

Use an Expert or Superior Salvage Kit to salvage for Rare Crafting Materials.

If salvaging for common crafting materials, the regular Salvage Kit works perfectly at one quarter the cost of an Expert Salvage Kit. The cost saving can be substantial if farming for Feathers, Dust, Etc. and you get a bunch of Scalps, Essence, Etc. that have to be salvaged.

What Urass said. Arranging it the other way around:

Perfect Salvage kit
- salvage mods, runes, inscriptions, insignias without destroying the original item

Expert/Sup Salvage kit
-salvage mods, runes, inscriptions, insignias with a chance that original item may be destroyed
-or, salvage materials and destroy the original item. Chance of getting rare materials
-doesn't salvage more materials than a regular kit.

Regular salvage kit
-salvage materials and destroy the original item, no chance of rare materials

I believe the amount of materials depends on the item's value in gold, after you ID'd it... and "Measure for Measure" (highly salvageable) only increases/multiplies this amount.

You don't have to ID items, but if you do you'll get an idea of how much materials you'll get by salvaging them... and whether it's worth putting "Measure for Measure" inscriptions on them.

I do this for gold Great Conches (these drop a lot from Raptors), and put "Measure for measure" on any that have a value over 350g... then I get half a stack or more of Glittering Dust by salvaging. I get much, much less if the value is only say, about 250g.

Beware of "Show me the money!" (Improved sale value) which increases gold value without increasing the amount of salvage materials...

If you want leather, it's a heck of a lot easier to just pile up tanned hide and a little cash, then go visit a crafter. Leather is cheap to craft and the crafters who make it (such as the one outside Sardelac) are not difficult to reach.

Combined with what Brett was saying above: If you find that stuff that drops tanned hide is scarce, collect items that you can turn into armor that salvages into tanned hide. Immediate ones that spring to mind are Minotaur Horns (from the Crystal Desert). If you turn them in to armor on a Ranger, that armor salvages to either wood or tanned hide. Bit longwinded, but it works.

Thanks for the great answers, guys!

Basically...

"Salvage Kit" is the tier 1 kit, you get only common materials from it.

Expert and Superior are the tier 2 kits, because you have a chance at getting the rare material from an item, using these. They both do the same thing, but with superior you just get more uses.

Perfect Salvage kit is the 3rd 'tier'..it allows you to salvage mods but not break the item.

And one great tip to remember when salvaging just for materials, farm for crappy end items and identify anything that is blue, chances are you'll find some "Highly Salvageable" mods on a few items which when hit with an expert/sup kit will yield either a LOT of commons or a couple rares.

One thing everyone forgets about: Don't use expert kits on items that have no possible Rare material salvage or only have unwanted rare salvages, the basic kit is FAR cheaper and gets the same results. The basic kit is all you need even for those "highly salvagable" items that produce 50+ iron or 100+ dust, using an expert won't make a better result there.