Salvage kit

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Salvage kits are items used for salvaging, a process of breaking down various items and upgrade components into crafting materials. The salvaging process always destroys the item and consumes one charge of the kit. The more expensive kits are better at salvaging upgrade components and generate more of the higher-tier crafting materials than their cheaper counterparts. Note that there is often some confusion about the behavior of Salvage Kits. The in-game description of many of these kits state that they have an x% chance to salvage the upgrade. This means that most salvage kits do not recover upgrades, though there is an x% chance to instead salvage the upgrade (directly) for something else (i.e. Lucent Motes). Black Lion Salvage Kits and Ascended Salvage Kits are the only salvage kits that can recover upgrades, see the table below.

Crude kits have 15 uses and are given as leveling rewards and sold by a variety of NPCs. Other standard kits come with 25 charges and can be acquired from most generalist merchants; some are also available from Karma merchants. The Copper-Fed, Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic, and Runecrafter's Salvage-o-Matic models are specialty kits available at the Gem Store; these kits have unlimited uses and deduct their per-use cost directly from your Wallet, at a slightly adjusted rate than the equivalent standard non-gem store model. The gem store also sells the Black Lion Salvage Kit, the only one with a 100% chance of recovering sigils, runes, and other upgrade components. Finally, you can create the 250-use Mystic Salvage Kit in the Mystic Forge by combining the three most expensive standard kits with three Mystic Forge Stones.

List of salvage kits[edit]

Type Chance of
rarer materials
Chance of
salvaging upgrades
Cost Uses Cost/Use Usable on Sources
Salvage type: Standard
Crude Salvage Kit.pngCrude Salvage Kit 0% small (~5%) 32 Copper coin
or 28 Karma
15 2.13 Copper coin
or 1.87 Karma
Salvage items and equipment up to Exotic rarity Most general merchants and some karma vendors
Basic Salvage Kit.pngBasic Salvage Kit 10% 20% 88 Copper coin
or 77 Karma
25 3.52 Copper coin
or 3.08 Karma
Salvage items and equipment up to Exotic rarity Most general merchants and some karma vendors
Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic.pngCopper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic[1] 10% 20% 800 Gem unlimited Copper coin Salvage items and equipment up to Exotic rarity Gem Store
Fine Salvage Kit.pngFine Salvage Kit 15% 40% Silver coin 88 Copper coin
or 252 Karma
25 11.52 Copper coin
or 10.08 Karma
Salvage items and equipment up to Exotic rarity Most crafting merchants/trainers and a few karma vendors
Journeyman's Salvage Kit.pngJourneyman's Salvage Kit 20% 60% Silver coin
or 2,800 Karma
25 32 Copper coin
or 112 Karma
Salvage items and equipment up to Exotic rarity Primarily at crafting merchants/trainers
Master's Salvage Kit.pngMaster's Salvage Kit 25% 80% 15 Silver coin 36 Copper coin
or 5,600 Karma
25 61.44 Copper coin
or 224 Karma
Salvage items and equipment up to Exotic rarity Primarily at crafting merchants/trainers
Mystic Salvage Kit.pngMystic Salvage Kit 25% 80% 26 Silver coin 24 Copper coin and 3 Mystic Forge Stone.png[2]
or 8,652 Karma and 3 Mystic Forge Stone.png[2]
250 10.496 Copper coin[3]
or 34.608 Karma[3]
Salvage items and equipment up to Exotic rarity Crafted in the Mystic Forge
Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic.pngSilver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic[4] 25% 80% 500 Gem unlimited 60 Copper coin Salvage items and equipment up to Exotic rarity Gem Store for limited periods.
Runecrafter's Salvage-o-Matic.pngRunecrafter's Salvage-o-Matic 20% 100% 600 Gem unlimited 30 Copper coin Salvage items and equipment up to Exotic rarity Gem Store
Black Lion Salvage Kit.pngBlack Lion Salvage Kit 50% 100% chance of recovering upgrades 300 Gem 25 12 Gem Salvage items and equipment up to Exotic rarity Gem Store or Black Lion Chest Merchant [5]
Salvage type: Ascended
Ascended Salvage Tool.pngAscended Salvage Tool ?% 100% chance of recovering upgrades Fractal Relics+1 Gold coin
or 1Laurel+1 Gold coin
1 Fractal Relics+1 Gold coin
or 1Laurel+1 Gold coin
Ascended equipment Purchased from BUY-4373
or Laurel Merchants
Ascended Salvage Kit 5 uses.pngAscended Salvage Kit ?% 100% chance of recovering upgrades 10 Fractal Relics+5 Gold coin 5 Fractal Relics+1 Gold coin Ascended equipment Purchased from BUY-4373
Ascended Salvage Kit.pngAscended Salvage Kit ?% 100% chance of recovering upgrades 40 Fractal Relics+20 Gold coin 20 Fractal Relics+1 Gold coin Ascended equipment Purchased from BUY-4373
Salvage type: Compost
Portable Composter.pngPortable Composter ?% n/a 4 Spiritwood Plank.png and Elonian Leather Square.png [6] unlimited Free Food and feasts Crafted as part of Gourmet Training achievement
Salvage type: Research
Research Kit.pngResearch Kit ?% Destroys upgrades Silver coin / Free 250 0.8 Copper coin / Free Crafted items Specific vendors.[7] Free version is a part of the crafting interface.
  1. ^ Equivalent to Basic Salvage Kit; slightly cheaper per use.
  2. ^ a b Mystic Forge Stones can be acquired from the Gem Store or from various achievement rewards.
  3. ^ a b Cheaper per use than Master's Salvage Kits, ignoring the cost of acquiring the Mystic Forge Stones; see the talk page for a discussion of the formulas used.
  4. ^ Equivalent to Master's Salvage Kit; slightly cheaper per use.
  5. ^ . Also available as a low-chance drop from Chest of Black Lion Goods.
  6. ^ Crafted with the Cook discipline after learning the recipe while completing the Gourmet Training collection
  7. ^ Bought from Master craftsman (excluding chef, jeweler and scribe), Xunlai Jade Sales Associate, Merchant, Archaeologist, Elite Servitor and Elder. Requires [[Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons|]] expansion.

Discontinued kits[edit]

The kits listed below can no longer be acquired.

Type Chance of
rarer materials
Chance of
recovering upgrades
Cost Uses Cost/Use Acquisition
notes
Disasembler 3BEK Kit.pngDisasembler 3BEK Kit 10% 20% 25 Captain's Council Commendations 250 0.1 Captain's Council Commendations Lionguard Lyns no longer accepts Captain's Council Commendations.
Crude Salvage Kit.pngPvP Salvage Kit - - 96 Copper coin 15 6.4 Copper coin Removed in the April 2014 Feature Pack. Usable only on PvP items.