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Salvaging is a mechanic that allows players to break down items, such as weapons and armor, into raw materials that can be used for Crafting, as well as Training the NPC Artisans.

Salvaging can be done in the field, and is designed to save space and trips back to town, as well as providing raw materials for crafting new items.

The Salvage Cube

An open Salvaging Window.

A Salvage Cube must be obtained before salvaging can begin. The cube is acquired from Haedrig Eamon, the Blacksmith, in thanks for your granting him a favor in an early game quest.

Once used for the first time, the salvage cube vanishes from the character's inventory and appears on the lower right of their inventory window, where it remains permanently; part of your character's interface.

Materials

Materials are produced by salvaging items. The materials generated are semi-random; identical items may return slightly varying amounts of material.

There are numerous types of materials, including some very rare ones that can only be obtained by salvaging very high level items. Since rare materials are needed to craft high level recipes, players will have to work to find uncommon items that they don't actually want to use, and may end up debating between using, salvaging, or trading a nice item.

Only a few materials are known so far.

User Interface/Mechanics

An Open/Closed Salvaging Chest found in the Inventory.

Once the salvage chest is obtained from the Blacksmith, it shows in the lower right corner of the Inventory window. The chest appears closed, when not in use. Once clicked upon, it opens up and a 3x2 space box appears in the center of the screen. Items to be salvaged can be dragged (or control+clicked with one touch) into the chest.

Once activated, the salvage chest will instantly reduce all the items in it into raw materials, which stack up in the character's inventory.

It's not known if salvaged items can be recovered, in case of a misclick. Accidentally sold items can be bought back from from the Artisans, so it's possible there will be some recovery method for inadvertent salvaging as well. Probably not though, since that could be exploited in at least two ways:

Since the materials returned are semi-random, players could repeatedly salvage the same item, trying for a better materials roll.
Even if the materials were permanently set on that particular item, simply knowing what it was going to salvage for would let the player decide to salvage or try to trade it.

RPG Parallels

Salvaging is similar to World of Warcraft's' Disenchanting, a Sub-skill of Enchanting.

It's also virtually identical to the Hellgate: London system that allowed players to break down items into their components, which could then be used in recipes to create new items.

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-'''Salvaging''' is a mechanic that allows players to break down items, such as weapons and armor, into raw materials that can be used for [[Crafting]] and Training [[Artisan (NPC)|Artisans]]. It is very similar to World of Warcrafts' Disenchanting, a Sub-skill of Enchanting. Players must first obtain an Artifact from [[Haedrig Eamon]], only then will they be able to salvage items. At first, the Artifact stays in the inventory like any regular item, but upon its first use, it becomes a UI element in the inventory, a picture can be seen below.
+'''Salvaging''' is a mechanic that allows players to break down items, such as weapons and armor, into raw materials that can be used for [[Crafting]], as well as [[Training]] the NPC [[Artisan]]s.
-This system serves many purposes, such as breaking down unneeded items into raw materials to free up space, instead of running back to town once the inventory is full as well as re-using these raw materials from unneeded items to make very strong and random equipment for you to use. Also, raw materials can be used to upgrade Artisans, allowing them to provide you with better recipes for crafting, among other things.
+Salvaging can be done in the field, and is designed to save space and trips back to town, as well as providing raw materials for crafting new items.
-==Salvaged Items==
-[[File:SalvagingWindow.png|200px|thumb|right|An open Salvaging Window.]]
-There are currently 2 items known to be produced from Salvaging:
+==The Salvage Cube==
-*Common Scraps
+[[File:SalvagingWindow.png|thumb|right|An open Salvaging Window.]]
-*Subtle Essence
+A Salvage Cube must be obtained before salvaging can begin. The cube is acquired from [[Haedrig Eamon]], the Blacksmith, in thanks for your granting him a favor in an early game quest.
+Once used for the first time, the salvage cube vanishes from the character's inventory and appears on the lower right of their [[inventory]] window, where it remains permanently; part of your character's interface.
+==Materials==
+Materials are produced by salvaging items. The materials generated are semi-random; identical items may return slightly varying amounts of material.
+There are numerous types of materials, including some very rare ones that can only be obtained by salvaging very high level items. Since rare materials are needed to craft high level [[recipes]], players will have to work to find uncommon items that they don't actually want to use, and may end up debating between using, salvaging, or trading a nice item.
+Only a few materials are known so far.
+* [[Common Scraps]]
+* [[Bone Scraps]]
+* [[Subtle Essence]]
-These are low tier raw materials, and are used for basic training and crafting. There 2 more raw materials known to exist, but their names are unknown.
 ==User Interface/Mechanics==
 [[File:SalvagingChest.png|200px|thumb|left|An Open/Closed Salvaging Chest found in the Inventory.]]
+Once the salvage chest is obtained from the Blacksmith, it shows in the lower right corner of the [[Inventory]] window. The chest appears closed, when not in use. Once clicked upon, it opens up and a 3x2 space box appears in the center of the screen. Items to be salvaged can be dragged (or control+clicked with one touch) into the chest.
+Once activated, the salvage chest will instantly reduce all the items in it into raw materials, which stack up in the character's inventory.
+It's not known if salvaged items can be recovered, in case of a misclick. Accidentally sold items can be bought back from from the Artisans, so it's possible there will be some recovery method for inadvertent salvaging as well. Probably not though, since that could be exploited in at least two ways:
+# Since the materials returned are semi-random, players could repeatedly salvage the same item, trying for a better materials roll.
+# Even if the materials were permanently set on that particular item, simply knowing what it was going to salvage for would let the player decide to salvage or try to trade it.
+==RPG Parallels==
+Salvaging is similar to ''World of Warcraft's''' Disenchanting, a Sub-skill of Enchanting.
+It's also virtually identical to the ''Hellgate: London'' system that allowed players to break down items into their components, which could then be used in recipes to create new items.
-In the [[Inventory]], in the bottom right corner a closed chest can be seen. Upon clicking this Chest, it opens up and a Salvaging window opens in the middle of the screen. This Salvaging screen has 6 slots, items can be dragged into the slots, where the player can Salvage the items, resulting in raw materials for every item in every slot. It seems to work like the [[Horadric Cube]]. It is Unknown if a player can store items within it, for the purpose of freeing up space in his inventory.
 [[Category:Items]]
+[[category:crafting]]