Materials are required for all crafting recipes. Materials are obtained through the Salvage tab in the [[Blacksmith]]'s interface. He will reduce salvage all types of magic armor and magic weapons into raw , giving materials, which stack up in the character's [[inventory]] taking up very little storage space. He will charge a small fee for doing this.

Materials are semi-random in their generation; you do not know exactly how much Salvaging items will give materials of each you will obtain from salvaging a given itemthe same type. In addition to basic substances like bone and wood[[Patch 2.3]], magical (and higher quality) items the level 1-60 tier of materials will return magical materials, which are rarer, and required to make magical items.  * Common (white) items can no longer be salvaged and common crafting materials have been removed in all difficulty levels* Salvaging a Magic (blue) item will always give you a Magic material, as well as a chance to receive a Rare (yellow) or Legendary (orange) material* Salvaging a Rare item will always give you a Rare material and a Magic material, as well as a chance to receive a Legendary material* Salvaging a Legendary item will always give you a Legendary material, Rare material, and Magic materia The best recipes will require very rare materials, which can only be obtained by salvaging equally rare, high-level items.