I have seen way too many people complain both on the forum and in general chat. Many of these are legit cases of just being unlucky.
However, I have seen my share of ‘omgehrd I opened 20 copper chests and no sliver’ as well.
If you’ve no clue as to how to get’em, this will be a long read but do give it some time.
it’s not so much the quality of the chest. it’s the quality of the items you get from it
I’ll use tourney token weapons as an example
There are four tiers to the tourney tokens.
1. The default ‘PVP’ weapons. E.g. PVP bow, PVP pistol etc.
2. The priory pvp weapons. E.g. Priory bow, Priory pistol, Priory Hammer, etc.
3. The vigil pvp weapons
4. The whisperer pvp weapons.
There are four tiers like this for almost every token. The dolyak token weapons include forest, flame, … well you see where I am going with this.
To create the first tier, you need 5 dusts + orb + animal/tourney token + armor/weapont oken
You have a chance to proc second tier.
With crystal you have a chance to proc third tier, with a high chance of getting second tier. You will not get first tier.
You get fourth tier if you are lucky with sliver, but will get third tier most of the time.
And that’s essentially how it is with salvaging.
If you salvage a fourth tier weapon/armor, you will have a chance of getting dust, sliver, animal/tourney token, or weapon/armor token
If you salvage a third tier weapon, you will have a chance of getting crystal/sliver, animal/tourney token, or weapon/armor token
It salvages into one of the components that you would use to craft it. So it is not possible to get orb from salvaging a third tier item like Vigil. (as a note, due to a glitch, priory/vigil hammer have a chance to give tiger token)
The reason why you buy gold chests is to increase your chance of getting a rare item, which means higher chance of sliver
I am rank 23, and I have gotten somewhere between 30~40 slivers. I have a full set of mist walker set, which is a tourney token 4th tier armor set for medium. It works for me, it will for you as well.
TL DR;
orb -> tier 1 (maybe tier 2)
crystal -> tier 2 (maybe tier 3)
sliver -> tier 3 (maybe tier 4)
salvage tier 1 item -> orb, dust, token
salvage tier 2 item -> orb/crystal dust token
salvage tier 3 item -> sliver/crystal dust token
salvage tier 4 item -> sliver dust token
