Item recycling

Salvage Bench

Destroy eligible quality or socketed equipment at the Salvage Bench to recover quality currency and Artificer's Shards.

How it works

Complete Finding the Forge in Act 1 and return the Smithing Tools to Renly to unlock the Salvage Bench in towns and hideouts. Salvaging destroys the item. Quality equipment returns the currency for its item class, while each socket returns one Artificer's Shard. Any augment already placed in a socket is destroyed with the item.

Unlock quest: Finding the Forge
Quest hand-in: Smithing Tools to Renly
Socket return: 1 Artificer's Shard per socket

How to unlock the Salvage Bench

The account unlock comes from Renly's optional Act 1 quest.

Find the Smithing Tools

Search Ogham Village during Finding the Forge and collect Renly's Smithing Tools.

Return to Renly

Bring the tools to Renly in Clearfell Encampment to complete the quest and restore the bench.

Use it in settlements

After the unlock, Salvage Benches are available in towns and can also be placed in a hideout.

What each item class returns

Quality currency follows the class of the destroyed equipment.

Martial weapons

Eligible martial weapons return Blacksmith's Whetstones according to their quality.

Caster weapons

Eligible wands, staves, and sceptres return Arcanist's Etchers according to their quality.

Armour and off-hands

Eligible armour and off-hand items return Armourer's Scraps according to their quality.

Flasks and charms

Eligible flasks and charms return Glassblower's Baubles according to their quality.

Quality and socket returns

The bench can return both reward types from the same eligible item.

Quality breakpoints

The bench returns one matching quality currency for each 5% quality, with a chance for one more when the remaining quality is below the next 5% breakpoint.