This Warhammer gathering guide is about “Magical Salvaging”.

Magical Salvaging
The magical salvaging tradeskill in WAR is the ability to break magical items into small magical fragments. This basically lets you take the magical essence from certain salvageable equipment. These magical items can be obtained from PvE, RvR, quests and variety of other places. When salvaging an item, you can choose the type of stats to extract from that item. Along with the fragments you will also get what is known as essences.

In your WAR ability list - there is an icon for salvaging - click on that or put it on your bar and then a little hammer appears. You can then click on the salvagable item and get materials from it. It does not seem that all armor is salvagable though and that some things drop that are specifically for salvaging. There are 3 types of magical fragments: crystals, essences and orbs. These fragments will have magical bonuses on them, such as +willpower, or +strength. When the item produces more than one type of bonus the player gets to choose which one they want.

Example
You are exploring a new Warhammer Gold area of the woods and are attacked by a blood-thirsty Cabbit! After a long and exhausting fight you manage to defeat the beast and discovery a shimmering amulet around its neck. Using your powers of deduction you realize this amulet has a +5 Intelligence and +7 Agility bonus. You can’t really use the amulet yourself but you could really use the agility on something else, so you decide to extract that bonus. The process is pretty involved and the amulet is destroyed but you are left with a trinket that will allow you to use that +7 Agility on a Talisman in the future!

warhammer magical salvaging

Orbs
Orbs can be Whispers, Echoes or Essences. 10 whispers can be combined into an Echo by right-clicking on the stack in your inventory. 5 Echoes can be made into an Essence the same way.

Orbs by Tier
Silent (Min. Skill to use: 1)
Dormant (Min. Skill to use: 25)
Subdued (Min. Skill to use: 50)
Warhammer Gold  Leveling Magical Salvaging

Easiest way to begin leveling is to get sufficient renown and rank to buy the boots sold by the 1st warcamp’s renown vendor. This is rank6, renown 4. At that point, you can buy greens for 8.4s and shatter them. (If they are not visible, un-check the filter button.) If you need an exact guide how to level up very fast get this leveling guide!