Salvaging

Crafting Also trains Intelligence

Break gear and crafted tools down into materials at a salvage press. Things you crafted refund half their recipe; for dropped gear each material unit comes back by chance: about 1% at skill 0, 75% at 120. Trains fastest on high-tier gear and raises Intelligence, extremely slowly.

Kind

Crafting

Stat training

Intelligence ×0.03 (per action, relative to combat training)

Station

Salvage press

Recipes

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How to level Salvaging

All tradeskills share one training curve. Each action (a swing, a smelt, a forge, a brew...) adds training points; when the bar reaches the cost of the next skill point, your skill goes up by 1. The cost of the next point at skill s is 1 × (1 + s / 12)^1.7 points, so it is fast early and slower higher up. An action adds 1 + 0.35 × tier points while your skill is inside the recipe's (or node's) optimal range – from its required level up to 20 levels above it. Above that the gain shrinks and reaches zero (“trivial”) 25 levels later: nothing more is learned from that item, and the game tells you to try something harder. Each action also trains a core stat a little (see “Stat training” above). Skills are trained by use and have a soft cap of 250 (like every skill; they can reach 1000).

Salvaging basics

• At a salvage press, break weapons, armour, jewelry and crafted tools down into materials. Equipped items are never salvaged; Rare and better ask for confirmation.
• Things you crafted return a fixed 50% of their recipe (so craft-then-salvage never gains).
• Dropped gear: each material unit of its recipe comes back with a chance rising from 1% at skill 0 to 75% at skill 120 (linearly), plus a quality bonus: Magic +3%, Rare +6%, Legendary +10%, Unique +10%, Set +10%.
• Magic and better gear also gives an enchanting material: Magic → Arcane Dust, Rare → Shimmering Essence, Legendary → Radiant Shard, Unique → Prismatic Soul, Set → Prismatic Soul.
• Trains Intelligence, extremely slowly. It trains fastest on high-tier gear.

Stations & where they are

The skill curve

Training points needed per skill point, and how many actions that is (at full rate) for items of tier 1, 5 and 9. Tier of crafted items and nodes: see the tables above (iron = tier 3, steel 4, mithril 5 …).