Which salvage kit to use

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BLSK I get one to two dropped on me for free per month for orange. Posted by: Hayashi. Crude kit on blues and whites. Green kit on greens. I normally carry 1 green 4 crudes and a high-charge mystic around. When transferring between alts, it makes it easy to simply move one item as opposed to unequipping, moving and reequipping 4.

If you are swimming in BLK, by all means salvage away. I have to be careful with my BLK stash so for that reason, I tend not to salvage all of them. Posted by: Mystic. For all of those, crude is slightly better. However, we are talking like 1c per use here. If not, use master salvage kits. If the item sells for more than the socket, sell it. Posted by: Eggman. In the given market, the data shows that the value of symbols charms from salvaged rares is enough to make up for the expected lower amount of ecto in the long run.

Over any short term amount of salvaging, you can expect huge variations; best not to worry about it unless you're looking at s or s of results. It's not much, but the numbers are close to start with, so it's enough. There are perfectly reasonable alternatives to my recommendations, especially for people who want to simplify their inventory management. If you want to extra the most value with the least possible effort, then you could go with:. If you're lazier still and want to buy a single kit to salvage everything rare or below, I'd recommend Copper-Fed or Runecrafter's, but know that you'll be throwing gold away in exchange for simplicity.

Am I taking much of a loss over time since I'm also using it to salvage whites and blues? You're spending an extra 27 copper per use on items that don't have any upgrades.

That means on some items, you'll lose coin. On the other hand, even after salvaging items, you'll have spent under 3g extra. So instead of asking how screwed you are, ask yourself: are you willing to invest 3g every few days just to avoid having to worry about which kit to use? My guess is no, since you were willing to spend gold to avoid having to buy basic or master's kits.

Illconceived Was Na. I don't think I go through that many in two or three weeks. If I bought a Copper-Fed in order to prevent that cost, then I'd still be at a loss in the end, having to salvage many thousands more to make up the difference.

TL;DR: You're right, that loss is meaningless. Or if you salvage a lot. Or if you're new and don't have that many to start with. There are a lot of reasons people lack them. That said, yes, Eekasqueak. If you have plenty of stones, then you can use Mystic on any gear with an upgrade, any gear that drops ecto, I use a mystic kit for everything, unless I have a free black lion kit for exotics with upgrades.

I keep saying I'll get a copper and silver fed when I run out of mystic forge stones but that's not likely to happen. Not sure how off-topic this is, but are there items that you should not salvage for profit reasons? How high does an item needs to be in the TP so that salvaging brings less? Are there exotics that are just too cheap to sell?

Or should certain things go into the mystic forge? Since I often get an upgraded item from the forge that is more expensive than the four input items combined, I have the feeling that for some items on average this might be a good alternative to salvaging You say there's no possible benefit for blue and green salvage kits, but what if someone decides to buy, if it's still possible, blue salvage kits for karma meaning no coin cost?

Is there a recommendation on what salvage kit to use to salvage runes and sigils stand-alone, not attached to gear? I recently discovered a stack each of old minor wintersday runes and sigils on a storage character and was wondering if using mystic over copper-fed I don't have the silver-fed and won't likely buy it as I still have two stacks of mystic forge stones would see a higher number of charms and symbols.

Well, yes, though I think it depends on the current market prices; but karma per 25 uses sounds like a small amount, can blue salvage kits turn out to be useful? I have a request by this same group. Could someone throw the Permanent Upgrade Extractor into the mix. That said, for the most part, most people are better off not worrying about it because it represents a small and changing fraction of their loot. That is, the extra coin earned might not exceed the cost of your time and headache spent figuring it out.

There's no good rule of thumb, because different types of items have different salvage tables, different rates and so on. You have to be very familiar with these to be able to assess the value.

If you always custom sell, no. If you often sell to the highest buy offer, then yes. That is almost never a good deal for people who forge occasionally. But it is possible to make money forging.