Mid level crafting mats
30s to 60s if I recall.
protip: bags and other containers that have loot tables specific to your level and not the level of the mobs they drop from will always drop level appropriate stuff, regardless of which toon got the bag. it depends on who opens it.
open a bunch of lost bandit chests in the silverwastes, save up all of your containers from this map, and put them in your bank. open them on your lower level alt and you will get tons of the mid-level mats you are looking for. This is how I have avoided buying linen for months.
Smitten Mittens (The Gothic Embrace [Goth], Fort Aspenwood)
The most cost-efficient level for masterwork or below is 53-55: salvaging gear yields T4 cloth (linen), leather, and metal, with little chance of getting lower- or higher-level. At that level, you’ll lose the chance of random exotics (e.g. from open world chests), while retaining the chance of named exotics from champ bags. Similarly, while you’ll see roughly the same (low) amount of rares, none of them can produce ecto and they will largely have lesser values.
A compromise is to use an L60 character: some T5 will replace the T4, but the rares will be significantly more valuable, and there will also be a similar chance of exotics.
General, trinkets are best to sell on the TP. (The most valuable ones are ~L30-40 though.)
My estimates of overall value of salvaged green|blue|white:
- Level 30: 150%
- L35-50: 200%
- L55: 250%
- L60: 220%
- L80: 100% (the baseline).
(That doesn’t include rares or exotics, since those ‘rare’ drops don’t affect the overall value much in the long run.)
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