Average salvage statistics per item type

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It's a per item chance of doubling all salvage yield. So if you salvage 40 items at once you expect to receive (on average) the yield of about 50 items...

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I've been a bit busy, so apologies this isn't any dedicated post, but just want to complement Coda 's post with some prelimimary data:

I...

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Lvl5 uncommons or lvl14 uncommons, for 9 or 19 XP each...

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Coda Thanks for the data points, very interesting!

One thing to take into account: to keep accuracy as high as possible, I did my calculations...

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Doesn't matter: this is the average Essence yield of legendaries *without the double salvage perk*. If you salvage 1, or you salvage 40, on average you'll...

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TL;DR - Greens, Blues, Purples and Legendaries give about 4, 21, 53 and 85 (Lesser) Essence on average when salvaged. We can use this info to accurately...

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It's not really a bug, just very suggestive wording. One could argue that the average comes "25% closer to the max value, seen relatively over the...

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i had a lot of approximate values in lvls 20-38, which were maybe 50-100 XP off due to counting errors and the perk where you can randomly get extra levels...

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Took quite some work, 2 days of writing down how much items I crafted between levels and some curve approximations in Excel, but I'm quite confident that...

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The data shows pretty much uniform distribution, so extrapolating that means that a Mastery Level 50 results in (80-76.5) = 3.5 possible values below...

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I've been looking around the forums but haven't found anyone going into detail on how the most interesting Crafting Perk actually works: Optimizer....