How do I get more rare crafting ingredients?

Question

When I salvage a magic item, sometimes I get a rare crafting ingredient. What are the chances that this will happen? Are there certain items which have an increased chance of this?

How can I maximize my rare ingredient yields?

Asked by OrigamiRobot

Answer

Take a look at the Apprentice Leather Doublet

Underneath the stats, you will see Salvages Into section. This will show you your chances of retrieving crafting supplies. For this item, you have a 100% chance of getting a Subtle Essence, and a 15% chance of a Fallen Tooth. This information is not shown in-game; as far as I can tell, only the website has these references.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find stats on dropped magical or rare items, so I have no concrete proof that they conform to these standards.
However, crafted items work as follows (and I believe dropped gear would work similarly):

• Magical: 100% chance of "magical" (blue color) salvage, 15% chance of "rare" (yellow) salvage.
• Rare: 100% chance of both magical and rare salvage.
• Set: 100% chance of 3 rare salvage.
• Unique: 100% chance of 2 rare salvage and 100% chance of legendary salvage.

EDIT: Currently, the best way to acquire more crafting material (especially the ones I've mentioned) are to buy them from the auction house. I believe a Fallen Tooth is ~50 gold.

Answered by fbueckert

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