Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic
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Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic
“Double-click to salvage crafting materials from an item in your inventory. 10% chance of rarer materials. 20% chance of salvaging upgrades. Requires 3 copper per use.
Cost per use: 3— In-game description
The Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic is an infinite use Basic Salvage Kit purchased from the Gem Store. Instead of having a set amount of charges when purchased, it has infinite charges, but requires 3 per use. For comparison, a normal Basic Salvage Kit costs 88 and comes with 25 uses, equating to 3.52 per use. The first time it is used to salvage something, and every few times thereafter, it will talk in a golem-like voice.
Acquisition[edit]
Sold by[edit]
Vendor | Area | Zone | Cost |
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Gem Store | 800 |
Contained in[edit]
- Character Jump Start (guaranteed)
- Guild Wars 2 Elite Jump-Start Package (guaranteed)
- Salvager's Supplies (guaranteed)
- Steam Elite Jump-Start Package (guaranteed)
Mechanics[edit]
- If the chance to salvage an upgrade triggers, the upgrade is salvaged and those materials, mostly Lucent Mote are returned.
- When salvaging trinkets, the upgrade is not salvaged, but returned intact if the chance triggers. For example, Gilded Sunstone Jewel from the masterwork Caudecus's Journal.
- Compared to a Basic Salvage Kit bought for coin from a vendor at a cost of 88 for 25 uses, a Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic saves 0.52 per salvage.
- Determining the number of salvages needed to "break even" compared to an equivalent number of uses of Basic Salvage Kits depends heavily on the gold-gem exchange rate at the time.
- For a rough sense, divide the total gold cost of 800 gems (or a given sale price) by the savings of 0.52 .
- For example, at a price of 322 29 for 800 gems, it would take about 6.29 million salvages to break even. This is equivalent to completing the Agent of Entropy achievement 31,450 times. (You only need to complete it 125 times to get all the achievement points.)
- Given the long time for this item to pay for itself, the value proposition is in convenience rather than economics: Its infinite nature doesn't require visiting a vendor to restock, and, unlike consumable salvage kits, it never takes up more than a single inventory slot.
Quotes[edit]
- Affirmative.
- This is the only proper course.
- We have completed the task at hand.
- Threshold achieved.
- Now I shall break you.
- Power flow at 30%. Rerouting.
- This is most remarkable.
- Target destroyed.
- Begin destruction protocol.
- I was manufactured to the highest standards.
Trivia[edit]
- Originally the item was of Basic rarity and functioned exactly like a Basic Salvage Kit, however after the November 26, 2013 game update, the rarity was changed to Rare. Some users reported that they were getting more rare materials, even though the description remained unchanged.[1] The item's rarity was changed back to basic in a later update and there have been no further reports of anomalies.
- The inventory icon for this item bears a strong resemblance to a slot machine.
Gem Store history[edit]
Gem Store historyAs the history has to be updated manually, it might be incomplete. Caveat lector. | |||
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Start date | End date | Discount | Notes |
August 13, 2013 | Available | - |
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March 28, 2014 | March 28, 2014 | 20% | |
August 30, 2014 | September 01, 2014 | ??% | |
March 07, 2016 | Unknown | 20% | |
August 25, 2016 | August 27, 2016 | 15% | |
March 05, 2017 | March 05, 2017 | 25% | |
December 30, 2017 | January 01, 2018 | 20% | |
June 08, 2018 | June 15, 2018 | 30% | |
September 01, 2018 | September 03, 2018 | 35% | |
December 28, 2018 | December 31, 2018 | 25% | |
March 12, 2019 | March 19, 2019 | - | |
August 02, 2019 | August 09, 2019 | 25% | |
December 29, 2019 | December 31, 2019 | 30% | |
March 05, 2020 | March 06, 2020 | 25% | |
August 12, 2020 | August 18, 2020 | 25% | |
December 31, 2020 | January 01, 2021 | 30% | |
March 30, 2021 | March 31, 2021 | 25% | |
July 20, 2021 | July 27, 2021 | 20% | |
March 13, 2022 | March 14, 2022 | 25% | |
September 28, 2022 | Unknown | 20% | |
Unknown | February 14, 2023 | 20% | |
June 06, 2023 | June 19, 2023 | 20% |