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Salvage Yard

The Salvage Yard turns other people's trash into your treasure.

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Greatly increases your chance at recovering Salvage from missions. In addition, you may now discover player items in Salvage.

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Comment by Beetle01

This is one of the buildings that will be introduced with the Garrison in Warlords of Draenor expansion pack. This is the final level of this building.

This will very useful for all players and has the following abilities for each level:
Level 1: Transmutes Salvage into Material, and enables new Salvage missions.
Level 2: Enables transmutation of Material to Gold.
Level 3: Unlocks Specializations.
This can only be placed on a small lot.

Other buildings that can be placed on a small lot include:
Enchanter's Study Level 1
Engineering Works Level 1
Gem Boutique Level 1
Alchemy Lab Level 1
Scribe's Quarters Level 1
Storehouse Level 2
Tailoring Emporium Level 1
The Forge Level 3
The Tannery Level 1

Comment by PriestessAur

The Level 3 Salvage yard is rewarded by completing Salvaging Pays Off. This achievement is account-wide so salvage obtained by all characters count towards this.

Comment by orionaegis7

Level 3 Salvage yard has a chance to give special class-specific transmog gear when you get a Salvage box from completing missions.

Comment by Karadine

When completing garrison follower missions after getting Salvage Yard Level 3, you'll occasionally receive Big Crate of Salvage.

Comment by Teryx

I believe this building is so important for leveling followers that you should have the level 1 version up as soon as you start sending followers on missions, to qualify for a level 3 version as soon as possible. Otherwise gear seems likely to be a major bottleneck.

If you want to maximise the followers game you should put up the level 1 version as soon as it is available.

Comment by Kevenatecor

To acquire Salvage Yard Level 1 you must complete the quest Flame On

to acquire Salvage yard Level 2 you may buy it from this list of vendors Garrison Blueprint: Salvage Yard, Level 2
In order to train it you need Talador Outpost or be Level 96+

To acquire Salvage yard level 3 You may buy it from this list of vendors Garrison Blueprint: Salvage Yard, Level 3
In order to train it you need Salvaging Pays Off and Level 100
Salvaging pays off can be complete by Opening 100 pieces of Salvage from missions.

Please note that you can also buy the prints for level 2 through a vendor in your Garrison for Gold

Comment by brekthegreat

Anyone else noticed a reduction in the quantity of crates received from completing mission once your building is level 3? Also, the big crates almost never have followers items in them now :(

Comment by ameelia

Unsure if this is a bug or not, but a level 2 Salvage yard will drop player items too from salvage crates, although these can be of random ilevel/level, and will likely as not be junk items of low ilevel.

At level 3 you will receive big salvage crates from missions which rarely contain 600+ ilevel items, as well as low level items, these are soul-bound automatically.

Comment by Deadache

There should be a follower named Fred G. Sanford that can be assigned to work at your Salvage Yard.

Comment by Zenkai76

I have 2 Salvage yard level 3's On my main I get something useful now and then
on my alt I get follower weapons like crazy, at least 3 purple weapon 1 purple armor several blues on both sides and a ton of green. Whats even more crazy is I don't keep up on missions on my alt like I do my main

Is there something I am missing that makes you have a higher chance to get something good? And what is up with all the green stuff I can't disenchant.

Comment by Hosfae

If you were wondering about if you should upgrade to Salvage yard lvl 3 or not, you still continue to get follower upgrades as well as player items.

Comment by horz

For those saying level 3 yields less, here a statement from Blizzard:

Why is the loot table on level 3 salvage crates so damn big?
A common misconception is that large tables necessarily mean more randomness, or that items are competing with each other. There are lots of ways of constructing treasure tables to avoid this. After many reports from players concerned with seemingly poor yield of follower rewards from Level 3 salvage crates, we took a really thorough look through the data and tested extensively to make 100% sure we weren't missing something.

A level 3 salvage crate actually gives you a guaranteed direct pull from the level 2 salvage loot table, PLUS additional chances to get transmog, legacy, or current items for your character to use or sell. The loot table is large to offer tons of variety, and there are definitely some jackpot items in there (Everburning Candle says hi), but it's not coming at the expense of the core follower items or resources you got from level 1 and level 2.
http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/2ob6ut/wow_developer_ama/cmlhki3

Comment by Avalith

It's currently possible to obtain level one salvage bags from a level three salvage yard as opposed to the big crates. I doubt it's intended, but I just got two bags from level 100 missions while lower level missions that were picked up at the same time got 6 level 3 crates.

Comment by Spectre118

The level three Salvage Yard allows the collection of a class-specific set of armor (and weapons) that are ilvl 610. This is the same armor that is used when previewing a class on the character creation screen, along with being the same look the level 90 boost armor has. All armor pieces/weapons are looted from the Big Crate of Salvage, they are not 100% drops, so it can take a while to collect the full set, and it is more than possible to get duplicate pieces.

Paladin -
Priest -
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Please let me know if anything is incorrect, I've only really made this comment because nobody else seems to have made one that links to the different class armor sets yet.

Comment by Tirain

The Big Crate of Salvage is awarded via the level 3 salvage yard.

Crate Percentage Drop Rates

Now that there have been a series of nerfs and buffs to how we acquire crates and drop rates and such, things have been stable for a few weeks. Under the assumption that this is what we can expect for crate drop rates for some time to come, I collected data on 67 Crate of Salvage and 200 Big Crate of Salvage to see what exactly was the difference between Salvage Yard level. That data is below in both percentage form and raw data for your viewing pleasure.

Percentage Drop Rates

Crate of Salvage (67) Big Crate of Salvage (200)
Greys & Whites 149% 149%
ilvl 1-499 19.4% 94%
ilvl 500-610 3% 26%
ilvl 655 Epic 0% 0.5%
Follower +3 19.4% 12.5%
Follower +6 7.5% 5.5%
Follower +9 4.5% 1.5%
Follower 615 4.5% 3%
Follower 630 0% 2.5%
Follower 645 0% 1%

Follower Armor Upgrades vs. Follower Weapon Upgrades:

Regular Crates: 54% armor / 46% weapon
Big crates: 48% armor / 52% weapon

Regarding Follower Upgrades:
The drop rate on follower upgrades is more-or-less consistent between the level 2 and level 3 salvage yard. WoWHead shows a rate of 29.7% for each and while my data is a little under that for level 3, and a little above that for level 2, it is more-or-less confirmed at an approximately 30% rate. It did seem as if the level 3 gave more of the higher level upgrades, although this effect was minimal. The rate of armor vs. weapon was nearly 50/50 throughout.

Overall the level 3 salvage yard provides 1 additional item per box (items per box: regular = 2.07 / big = 2.96) and odds are, that extra item is a green, blue or epic. ilvl 1-499 were given at a 5x rate, ilvl 500+ were given at a 13x rate.

All told, there is no downside to the level 3 salvage yard, while the upside is great in every way.

Raw Drop Data

Crate of Salvage (67) Big Crate of Salvage (200)
Greys & Whites 100 298
ilvl 1-499 13 188
ilvl 500-610 2 52
ilvl 655 epic 0 1
Follower +3 13 25
Follower +6 5 11
Follower +9 3 3
Follower 615 3 6
Follower 630 0 5
Follower 645 0 2

Follower Armor Upgrades vs. Follower Weapon Upgrades:

Regular Crates: 13 armor / 11 weapon
Big crates: 25 armor / 27 weapon

Comment by GhostQ

A few things I noticed about Salvage Yards:

To acquire Garrison Blueprint: Salvage Yard, Level 1 you need to do the Pinchthistle Gearworks (in Spires of Arak) questline.

Since Garrison Blueprint: Salvage Yard, Level 2 requires you to be level 96 and you'll already be level 96 in Spires, I suggest saving an extra 100 resources to upgrade the building to level 2 right away.

Since the credit towards Salvaging Pays Off is account wide, you can speed up the progress of unlocking Garrison Blueprint: Salvage Yard, Level 3 by building Salvage Yards on your alts.

Having a Salvage Yard Level 3 on all of your characters is a very good idea along with an Enchanter's Study Level 2. Since the transmogrifiable sets you obtain from salvage boxes are quite common, you'll have a nice supply of dusts. With this method you can make a lot of money from your alts which you don't really play. A level 100 Enchanter Follower (e.g. Ahm), working the building will produce 12 Fractured Temporal Crystal per day.

As of 10th of Jan, 2015 a hotfix made salvage boxes stackable.

Comment by Carnagias1989

Hey guys, I would like to reaffirm that ilvl 665 items do indeed drop from Big Crates of Salvage. I just opened one and got Signet of the Traitor General. This took me about 2 and half weeks. This is the first epic player item I have gotten. Don't give up faith on your salvage yards!

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