From Final Fantasy Wiki

Salvage is a special event in Final Fantasy XI, added onto the Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion on the Dec 18, 2006 version update.

Rules

Salvage missions can use up to one full alliance. Players must each obtain a pass that allows them to enter. This is purchased in exchange for 2000 Assault Points. Everyone in the alliance must enter before the first creature is engaged, otherwise they will be unable to join.

Restraints

Upon entering, each player is unable to equip anything, unable to use spells, has artificially low capped HP and MP, has artificially reduced statistics, is unable to cast, and takes no advantage of his subjob. These can all be removed through the use of cells, one or more of which can be dropped off of each creature defeated.

Reward

There are a number of special items that can drop off of creatures in Salvage. These items can be turned in, in conjunction with Imperial Currency, and crafted items for armor which is, quite simply put, some of the best in the game.

From GuildWiki

Salvaging is a process used in order to garner common crafting materials, rare crafting materials, weapon upgrades, inscriptions, runes, and insignias from Salvage Items, weapons, and armor.

All items except for collector weapons, quest items, unique items, weapon upgrades, PvP items, and runes can be salvaged for crafting materials. Highly salvageable items provide substantially more materials than other items.

When a player salvages an item containing a rune or upgrade with an Expert or Superior Salvage Kit, the player will be offered a choice to salvage any of the upgrades or materials.

• Should the player choose to salvage an upgrade, the player will always receive the chosen upgrade. However, there is a chance that the item being salvaged will not be destroyed after salvaging. There is a base 50% chance that the item will remain intact, with an additional 3% chance for each rank in the Treasure Hunter and Wisdom titles. At max level Treasure Hunter and Wisdom, there is a 92% chance of the item remaining intact. Some items, such as Hero armor, cannot actually be destroyed by salvaging.
• Should the player choose to salvage materials, there is a chance that the player will receive rare crafting materials instead of common crafting materials. This option will always destroy the item salvaged.

Salvaging can be carried out using the following kits:

(Basic) Salvage Kit

The Salvage Kit will only salvage common crafting materials from items. A Salvage Kit cannot retrieve weapon upgrades or runes from an item, nor can it salvage rare crafting materials.

Pre-Searing Ascalon / Shing Jea / Istan

• 10 Uses
• Cost: 40    (4 per Salvage)

Post-Searing Ascalon / non-starter regions

• 25 Uses
• Cost: 100    (4 per Salvage)
• Cost: 1 Monastery Credit
• Cost: 1 Imperial Commendation
• Cost: 1 Luxon Totem
• Cost: 1 Equipment Requisition
• Cost: 1 Kournan Coin
• Cost: 1 Battle Commendation
• Cost: 3 Vermin Hides at collector Bae Kwon

Note that when bought from Laren, this kit has 10 uses.

Expert Salvage Kit

The Expert Salvage Kit is used to salvage weapon upgrades, inscriptions, runes, and insignias from items. In addition, when used to salvage for materials it has a chance of extracting rare crafting materials. There are also Charr Salvage Kits which can be found in Pre-Searing Ascalon off the Charr bosses, which function identically to an expert salvage kit, though with only 5 uses.

• 25 Uses
• Cost: 400    (16 per Salvage)
  • Cost from Discount Merchant: 320    (12 per Salvage)
• Cost: 3 Monastery Credits
• Cost: 3 Imperial Commendations
• Cost: 3 Luxon Totems
• Cost: 3 Equipment Requisitions
• Cost: 3 Kournan Coins
• Cost: 3 Battle Commendationss

Superior Salvage Kit

The Superior Salvage Kit is functionally the same as the Expert Salvage Kit, but has more uses.

• 100 Uses
• Cost: 2    (20 per Salvage)
  • Cost from Discount Merchant: 1 600    (16 per Salvage)
• Cost: 5 Imperial Commendations
• Cost: 5 Luxon Totems
• Cost: 5 Equipment Requisitions
• Cost: 5 Kournan Coins
• Cost: 5 Ancient Artifacts
• Cost: 5 Inscribed Secrets

Perfect Salvage Kit

The Perfect Salvage Kit gives you 100% chance to preserve the base item while salvaging weapon upgrades, inscriptions, runes, and insignias.

• 5 Uses
• Cost: 250 , 1 Skill Point, 25 Iron Ingots and 25 Wood Planks    (Minimum 80 per Salvage, based on Iron Ingot and Wood at 3 each)
  • Obtainable from Eyja, Kwat, Edwin, Alcus Nailbiter and as a Quest reward for Cold as Ice
• Pokhe in the Great Temple of Balthazar in exchange for 3 Silver Zaishen Coins and 50

Charr Salvage Kit

The Charr Salvage Kit is functionally the same as the Expert Salvage Kit, but has only 5 uses.

• 5 Uses
• Cost: Drop Only
  • Obtainable from Charr Bosses in Pre-Searing

Notes

• As with identification, it is a better deal to buy Expert Salvage Kits for gold, but trade for Superior Kits with quest reward items. Only purchase Superior Kits from merchants if you don't want to shop as often.
• If you are salvaging fast,you will get the 007 error.

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki

The name or term Salvage refers to more than one character or idea:

• 1988 — "Salvage!", a storyline in issues #160-161 of the Marvel UK comic.

• 2004 — Salvage, the Recyclon from the Transformers Legends anthology story "Collect and Save".

• 2007 — Salvage, an Autobot from the 2007 Transformers movie continuity.

Salvage should not be confused with...

• Savage, the dragon-form "other half" of Noble from Beast Machines.

From Yu-Gi-Oh!

The Arabic name given is an approximation.

Salvage サルベージ
	English:	Salvage
	Arabic:	الاستنقاذ
	German:	Reparieren
	Italian:	Recupero
	Portuguese:	Salvamento
	Japanese (Kanji):	サルベージ
	Phonetic:	Sarubēji
	Type:	Spell Cards
	Property:	Normal
	Number:	96947648
	Card Description(s):  English: Add 2 WATER monsters with an ATK of 1500 or less each in your Graveyard to your hand.  Japanese: 自分の墓地に存在する攻撃力１５００以下の水属性モンスター２体を手札に加える。
	TCG Set(s):  English—Worldwide: Dark Revelation Volume 2 (DR2-EN097 - C) Invasion of Chaos (IOC-EN096 - C) Structure Deck 4: Fury from the Deep (SD4-EN023 - C)  English—North America: Invasion of Chaos (IOC-096 - C)  French: Dark Revelation Volume 2 (DR2-FR097 - C) Invasion of Chaos (IOC-FR096 - C) Structure Deck 4: Fury from the Deep (SD4-FR023 - C)  German: Dark Revelation Volume 2 (DR2-DE097 - C) Invasion of Chaos (IOC-DE096 - C) Structure Deck 4: Fury from the Deep (SD4-DE023 - C)  Italian: Dark Revelation Volume 2 (DR2-IT097 - C) Invasion of Chaos (IOC-IT096 - C) Structure Deck 4: Fury from the Deep (SD4-IT023 - C)  Portuguese: Structure Deck 4: Fury from the Deep (SD4-PT023 - C) Invasion of Chaos (IOC-PT096)  Spanish: Dark Revelation Volume 2 (DR2-SP097 - C) Invasion of Chaos (IOC-SP096 - C) Structure Deck 4: Fury from the Deep (SD4-SP023 - C)
	OCG Set(s):  Japanese: Expert Edition Volume.2 (EE2-JP097 - C) Invader of Darkness (307-041 - C) Structure Deck 4: Fury from the Deep (SD4-JP023 - C)  Asian-English: Invasion of Chaos (IOC-AE096 - C)  Korean: Expert Edition Volume.2 (HGP2-KR097 - C) Invasion of Chaos (IOC-KR096 - C) Structure Deck 4: Fury from the Deep (SD4-KR023 - C)
	Video Game Set(s):  Nightmare Troubadour: Roar of Demise  World Championship 2006: Invasion of Chaos All Spells (Common) All at Random (Common)
	Card Search Categories: Support Categorie(s): WATER Action Categorie(s): Adds from Graveyard to hand
	Other Card Information:	Gallery - Rulings - Errata - Tips Appearances - Trivia Lores - Artworks - Names

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From City of Heroes Wiki

Overview

Salvage is required to create Inventions, base items and Empowerment buffs. There are also special salvage types such as the Halloween 2006 event costume slot salvage.

Salvage by Type

• Components (Technological and Arcane)
• Base Salvage -- Note: As of Issue 13 all base crafted items now use invention salvage. Base Salvage should only be needed in recipes that convert base salvage to invention salvage. Base Salvage is no longer dropped.
  • Magic Salvage items
  • Mutant Salvage items
  • Natural Salvage items
  • Science Salvage items
  • Tech Salvage items
• Event Salvage items
• Invention Salvage items
• Special Salvage items

Also See

Misc Salvage for salvage that is currently in the game but not yet activated.