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 | Recommended usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salvage type: Standard | ||||||||
 Crude Salvage Kit
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0% | small (~5%) | 32  or 28 
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15 | 2.13 or 1.87
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Salvage items Equipment up to Exotic rarity Runes, sigils, and relics Some trophies for collections |
Most general merchants and some karma vendors | Low-level equipment[1] |
 Basic Salvage Kit
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10% | 20% | 88 or 77
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25 | 3.52 or 3.08
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Most general merchants and some karma vendors | Basic and Fine equipment Runes and sigils[2] | |
 Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic[3]
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10% | 20% | 800 
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unlimited | 3
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Gem Store | ||
 Fine Salvage Kit
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15% | 40% | 2  88 or 252
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25 | 11.52 or 10.08
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Most crafting merchants/trainers and a few karma vendors | Low-level equipment[1] | |
 Journeyman's Salvage Kit
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20% | 60% | 8 or 2,800
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25 | 32 or 112
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Primarily at crafting merchants/trainers | Low-level equipment[1] | |
 Runecrafter's Salvage-o-Matic
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20% | 100% | 600
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unlimited | 30
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Gem Store | Masterwork equipment | |
 Master's Salvage Kit
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25% | 80% | 15 36 or 5,600
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25 | 61.44 or 224
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Primarily at crafting merchants/trainers | Rare equipment | |
 Mystic Salvage Kit
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25% | 80% | 26 24 and 3  [4] or 8,652 and 3 [4]
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250 | 10.496 [5] or 34.608 [5]
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Crafted in the Mystic Forge | ||
 Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic[6]
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25% | 80% | 500
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unlimited | 60
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Gem Store for limited periods. | ||
 Black Lion Salvage Kit
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50% | 100% chance of recovering upgrades | 300 or 50 
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25 | 12 or 2
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Gem Store, Black Lion Chest Merchant or Wizard's Vault[7] | Exotic equipment (with expensive upgrades) | |
| Salvage type: Ascended | ||||||||
 Ascended Salvage Tool
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Equivalent | 100% chance of recovering upgrades | 2  +1  or 2  +1 or 1  +1 or 1  +250  or 10  +20 
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1 | 2 +1 or 2 +1 or 1 +1 or 1 +250 or 10 +20
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Ascended equipment | Purchased from respective currency vendors or Laurel Merchants Contained in daily T2/T3/T4 fractal chests |
Rings: Attune before salvaging Back items: Not worth to salvage |
 Ascended Salvage Kit
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Eqv. of 5 Tools or 15 +75
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5 | Eqv. of Tool or 3 +15
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Purchased from respective currency vendors Contained in daily T3/T4 fractal chests | ||||
 Ascended Salvage Kit
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Eqv. of 20 Tools or 25 +250 or 5  +250
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20 | Eqv. of Tool or 1.25 +12.5 or 0.25 +12.5
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Purchased from respective currency vendors Contained in daily T3/T4 fractal chests | ||||
| Salvage type: Compost | ||||||||
 Portable Composter
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Depends | n/a | 4  and  [8]
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unlimited | Free | Food and feasts | Crafted as part of Gourmet Training achievement | |
| Salvage type: Research | ||||||||
 Research Kit
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?% | Destroys upgrades | 2 / Free
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250 | 0.8 / Free
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Crafted items | Specific vendors.[9] Free version is a part of the crafting interface. | |
- ^ a b c With free kits from level rewards. It is not considered worth to buy over Basic Salvage Kits.
- ^ Kit rarity does not matter when directly salvaging runes and sigils. Crude Salvage Kit could also be used if its fewer charges is manageable.
- ^ Equivalent to Basic Salvage Kit; slightly cheaper per use.
- ^ a b Mystic Forge Stones can be acquired from the Gem Store or from various achievement rewards.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Equivalent to Master's Salvage Kit; slightly cheaper per use.
- ^ . Also available as a low-chance drop from Chest of Black Lion Goods.
- ^ Crafted with the Cook discipline after learning the recipe while completing the Gourmet Training collection
- ^ 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 |
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 Disasembler 3BEK Kit
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10% | 20% | 25 
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250 | 0.1
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Lionguard Lyns no longer accepts Captain's Council Commendations. |
| PvP Salvage Kit
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- | - | 96
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15 | 6.4
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Removed in the April 2014 Feature Pack. Usable only on PvP items. |
