How to properly salvage the equipment?

[POWER]

Hi all. I have a question. I salvage all gear with the Mystic Salvage Kit (including commons and uncommons). Does it make sense? Maybe I should use another Salvage Kit to salvage common and uncommon gear?

[Hefutoxin]

Basic Salvage would work for White, Blue, and Green if you wish to save some money.

I just salvage everything with a Silver-Fed Salvage Kit (Gem Store) which is about the same as a Mystic Salvage Kit because I am lazy.

[Q]

Nah don't use mystic salvage kit for green and blue bags stuff.
Use the cheap salvage kits for green & blue (white, fine and masterwork items) and save the mystic kit for Yellow, rare items or the orange ones (exotic stuff).

Get a copper-fed salvage o-matic soon as possible, it's permanent and you should salvage all your white, blue and green items with that. wait for a discount cuz right now the price is 800 gems (260 gold ouch).

[Tuathaqin]

I use the permanent tools, Copper-Fed for whites and blues, Runecrafter's for greens, and Silver-Fed for yellows. If I want to salvage orange items, I use the Black Lion Salvage Kits I get from login rewards. This is about the most efficient I can be with what I have.

If you are thinking about buying any of the Gem Store tools, only buy the Copper-Fed and use it, as Lord Cheetoz suggested, on white, blue and green items.
The Mystic Salvage Kit is much, much cheaper than the Silver-Fed, especially if you were to buy that with ingame gold.

But, if you don't want to spend your gold in the Gem Store, I think stick with the Basic Salvage Kit OR the Fine Salvage Kit for white, blue and green items, and use the Mystic Salvalge Kit on yellow items. If you get any exotics (orange) and you have no use for them, try to sell them first on the TP before salvaging them with the Mystic Kit. Might get more value out of them that way.

[POWER]

Does their salvage make sense in principle? Maybe it's better to just sell them to the vendor (blue and green stuff)?

[LoliNoxTan]

As has been said, Copper = whites/blues, Rune = greens, Silver = yellows. Go a bit further & any Exotics you get should be sold on the TP if over 24 silver (i think)

I personally dump my Exotic Weapons into the Mystic Forge if they would TP for less than 30silver (Not worth throwing armor in)

[POWER]

Originally posted by LoliNoxTan:

As has been said, Copper = whites/blues, Rune = greens, Silver = yellows. Go a bit further & any Exotics you get should be sold on the TP if over 24 silver (i think)

I personally dump my Exotic Weapons into the Mystic Forge if they would TP for less than 30silver (Not worth throwing armor in)

What does "dump my Exotic Weapons into the Mystic Forge" mean, could you explain?

[Hemi]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qLrFPcTJeoM-QvYl49OwgEXHwfHVN_-R4aSKopr98xk/edit#gid=946737751

Here you go.

[Rayalot72]

Originally posted by жокир:

Does their salvage make sense in principle? Maybe it's better to just sell them to the vendor (blue and green stuff)?

Absolutely never do this. If you don't want to identify and then salvage unidentified gear, you should always sell it on the TP, not a vendor. It has a much higher value when sold to other players.

Also, if you are salvaging, always identify the gear first. If you are just salvaging unidentified gear outright, it is not worth it, either identify it or sell it on the TP.

The main advantages to salvaging are generating luck (increases magic find on your account when consumed), generating materials without going through the TP, and generating more value per item on average than the price of unIDs on the TP (although be aware that this depends on market forces, salvaging is not necessarily profitable). If you need luck or materials, I'd say you should salvage. If you you want to make money, it's by far simplest to just sell unIDs directly on the TP. If you're a spreadsheet warrior, nobody is stopping you but yourself, do your own math and call your own shots.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Blues and greens are far too common to be worth comparing prices on the TP, I would always just identify and salvage them. It's ALWAYS worth identifying first because you always have a small chance of getting a higher rarity when you do so - even a blue unidentified will occasionally drop a Rare (yellow) item. Even after identifying, blues and greens are so plentiful that I'd never try selling them on the TP - even if you're making a bit of a loss on the value of the materials, you make up for it with the above mentioned chance for better gear when you do identify.

I do check the TP for Rare (yellow) and Exotic (orange) drops, however. There are probably more efficient ways to do it, but my benchmark for Rare gear is how much it's worth compared to a single Glob of Ectoplasm. Last I checked, that's currently around 14-15 silver, so my threshold for selling yellows is if they're worth about 18 silver or more (you can get anywhere from 0 to 3 Ectoplasm from one salvage when using a high-quality salvage kit such as Mystic or Silver-Fed). Exotics are a bit less consistent for me - I do tend to lean more heavily towards salvaging because I like hoarding mats, and there is also the bonus of unlocking their skins if you don't already have them.

[Rayalot72]

Originally posted by Totally Innocent Chatbot:

Even after identifying, blues and greens are so plentiful that I'd never try selling them on the TP - even if you're making a bit of a loss on the value of the materials, you make up for it with the above mentioned chance for better gear when you do identify.

This doesn't follow. You'd have to compare the value of the materials + how many rares you get vs. the TP price of unIDs. Selling unIDs on the TP is essentially just offloading the work of IDing and salvaging to someone else, and is at least good value for that trade-off if not better value depending on the state of the market. Blues and greens can just be overpriced, it doesn't really matter how common they are.

Especially for greens, the runecrafter salvage kit is pretty important for getting the maximum value out of salvaging them, and there's good odds this will improve their price on the TP beyond what you'd get from salvaging with either copper-fed or basic salvage kits.