How do I properly extract this Superior Rune of Vigor?

Hey there,

I realize this is probably a n00b question but I have gotten this far without a clear idea on how to properly extract runes. Sometimes I have tried and gotten nothing but wooden planks, and that sucks! I asked around and people said that you have a greater chance when America has favor, and you find out by going to the Temple of Ages. But there still is a chance you might get materials.
I found this beauty today, I have been planning on buying one but this is just great! I just hope I don't mess up the extraction.

So what should I use on this? Expert Salvage kit? should I buy a superior salvage kit?

Any help is much appreciated, thanks!

Just Expert Salvage. If you do that you will get runes every time out of blue/purple/gold armor. You can't get runes out of white armor.

You use an Expert Salvage Kit to extract runes, anything less and you will get those "wooden planks". Congrats on the Superior Vigor.

Superior Salvage Kits are the same as Expert Salvage Kits, except Superiors have more uses. So yeah, an Expert Salvage will work just fine.

Not every single time... there is still a very minor chance that you still get wood or something and not the rune. But its only a minor chance. Happens even when making use of a Expert Salvage Kit.

thank you guys so much for the quick reply!
thanks for clearing up the difference between the superior and expert salvage kits!

I could've sworn an update a few months back changed that. You get the rune upgrade always from an enemy rune, but not always from your equipped armor.

Found it (Update – Wednesday, June 15):
I've just never seen it myself, even though I salvaged runes for months before I realized minor runes still in armors sell for more at the merchant.

Thats weird..Cuase I to have gotten Crafting materials from a rune filled enemy armor (it was only a minor though)...and its been way after June, I only started playing a few weeks ago.

I suppose they may have nerfed their own fix?

Well, it's still bugged, cause I lost a Sup Fire yesterday while Exp Salvaging it.

it happens, i've lost a few major vigors and absorbs, as well as a few superior runes that are worth abit at the trader

If you expert salvage BEFORE identifying, I think it increases your chances, if not guarantess success. I have NEVER lost a rune when I salvaged first, and ided second.

I have lost some, but I don't ID anymore before salvaging. So not sure if it ws fixed, or depends on the order in which you do it.

True, but your paying an extra 400 for the convience of 1 slot where as you can buy 5 and get 25 more for the same price, most of my travels id just buy a few expert, rather than spend the 2k on a super kit, 400 a pop extra can addup a lot.

Plus depending on where you picked up certain items it's not worth using an expert on certain items to get materials, like certain armors will always turn to tanned hide or iron ingots, and an expert kit will only give you the same amount or 1 extra to the pile.

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And you never get wood planks from armours.
It's always tanned hide, bolts of cloth, linen, silk, leather, fur, steel, iron or a rune.
Collars, vestments and robes are armours too.

Wish I would have read this earlier.Lost two superior Vigors after identifing and expert salvaging.
Instead of a Superior I got Major's, both times
This almost caused me to "give up the game"

Ummmm, well, it's happened before in games that I've had amazing luck and people hated me because of it, but.... I gotta say... I think when you lose runes you must have accidentally used regular salvage. I have never lost a rune, and I attribute this to never having a regular salvage kit, so there is no possible way I can accidentally regular salvage it.

Oh, and just because an armor is gold, it doesnt mean it is a superior rune. Armors will never salvage to a lower quality of rune once you identify them.

I'll run through the quick truths of runes and enemy armor salvaging:

-After one of the past updates, you will always get the rune through expert salvage. This is always the case, 100% of the time, whether the object is unIDed or not.
-The rune, if follows by the general trend of unidentified items, is predetermined before identifying.
-Identification has nothing to do with salvaging, or which rune you get. It simply (and surprisingly enough) identifies your rune.

Often, identifying before salvaging is a good thing. Sometimes, you'll end up with a 50g rune on a 460g gold armor, in which case selling the armor is higher profit.

wow nice drop!

Other Truths:
1) I haven't bought a normal salvage kit since Yak's bend.

2) I HAVE LOST RUNES - and got crafting material instead.

And no I'm not thinking about some Before June time (before the update quoted) because I didn't even play this game in June - I got the game alittle over a month ago.

My thoughts is that they Nerfed their own update. It isn't uncommon or strange.

You still can get crafting materials from expert salvaging player armor... In all my time and all my salvages (more than 30, at least, since the update) I still have yet to unsucessfully remove a rune from an enemy armor with an expert salvage kit.

If you don't know how to salvage runes and you've already got a Sup Vigor, then you're REALLY lucky O_o

I played ~500 hours before I found my first Sup. Absorb, and I was farming for them on purpose