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Crate of Salvage

Item Level 100
Binds when picked up

Use: Dig through the salvage to look for hidden treasure. Only available at your Salvage Yard.

Max Stack: 20

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Comment by brekthegreat

Contains stuff like plants, minerals, gray items and follower items like :

Comment by iinyla

You can get this item randomly from follower missions if you have a Salvage Yard in your garrison.

Apart from gold, herbs, ore, fur(cloth), hide(leather) and vendor trash,
when you upgrade your Salvage Yard to lvl2 you can also get gear and upgrades for your followers:

Weapon Enhancements
Balanced Weapon Enhancement
Striking Weapon Enhancement
Power Overrun Weapon Enhancement

War Ravaged Weaponry
Blackrock Weaponry
Goredrenched Weaponry

Armor Enhancements
Braced Armor Enhancement
Fortified Armor Enhancement
Heavily Reinforced Armor Enhancement

War Ravaged Armor Set
Blackrock Armor Set
Goredrenched Armor Set

Comment by tired

This crate has a very odd loot table. I just got a Vizier Robe out of one.

Comment by Kurisuto

Just used mine at my level 2 Salvage Yard and received nothing.

Comment by Inzeen001

It would be nice to not get empty crates. That small plot could be used for other stuff instead of empty promises.

Comment by traivon

Does anyone know if anything factors into the chance you get these or is it just the same for every mission.

Comment by bassdx

I got very... odd items from the bag, apart from mats like ore and plants, and some greys, I got BoE green from Outland and Northrend.

Comment by Leilameda

Armor Enhancements:
Crate of Salvage or Armor Enhancement Token from Missions create:
Braced Armor Enhancement / Fortified Armor Enhancement / Heavily Reinforced Armor Enhancement

Crate of Salvage or Missions create:
War Ravaged Armor Set / Blackrock Armor Set / Goredrenched Armor Set

Weapon Enhancements:
Crate of Salvage or Weapon Enhancement Token from Missions create:
Balanced Weapon Enhancement / Striking Weapon Enhancement / Power Overrun Weapon Enhancement

Crate of Salvage or Missions create:
War Ravaged Weaponry / Blackrock Weaponry / Goredrenched Weaponry

DO NOT USE THE Enhancements untill you have used an Armor/Weapon Set!

Comment by DrSasa

i get 18 Blackrock Ore

Comment by Runawaynow

Should you complete missions with a full inventory, the kindly Postmaster will be sure to collect any of these crates that would otherwise disappear into the void.

Comment by Soybeanie

It is possible to actually receive nothing which I just found out :^D

Comment by Jinxies

I actually got Scarlet Gauntlets from a crate... which doesn't drop anymore. Interesting.

Comment by Tribunal

Can include very rare old drops that may be sought-after due to transmog, like Lord Sakrasis's Scepter.

Check your greens out before vendoring them! c:

Comment by spamplz

Just received an Augural Shroud which has been unobtainable for quite some time.

Comment by lahtinen

I just got Rathorian's Cape inside a Crate of Salvage!

I am on Moonglade EU should anyone be interested in getting their hands on this item still by the way as I was fortunate to have gotten one of these back in the day, but I know that there are still people interested in getting their hands on these cloaks.

Contact me Shosho Horde or Taeliah Alliance. All the best folks

Comment by ilostmahbucket

There has been some concern whether or not the Big Crate of Salvage or the small Crate of Salvage had identical droprates for follower enhancement tokens. Having tested the level 3 Salvage Yard Big Crates for over a week, the drop rate of the boxes themselves and of upgrades appears to be equal between the two boxes.

Droprates for your own comparison:
http://www.wowdb.com/items/114120-big-crate-of-salvage?contains-item-page=2#related:contains-item
http://www.wowdb.com/items/114119-crate-of-salvage?contains-item-page=2#related:contains-item

Don't have proof or data for drop rates of boxes themselves.

Blue post:
"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."

TLDR go for level 3 salvage yard ASAP

Comment by francis2559

Has anyone ever had more than five in their inventory at once? It's happened often enough to me that I'm wondering if there is a cap of sorts.

Comment by lorddeseis

looks like these crates contain a lot of the grandfathered items that were removed from mob loot tables during cataclysm

Comment by peepjynx

I believe you can also have a random chance of getting one of these when you run a dungeon.

Comment by perfectlemon

Not sure if I'm just unlucky or...but I opened 80 of these and never got a piece of armor set (e.g: Blackrock Armor Set) and only got upgrade items (e.g: Braced Armor Enhancement) I've also never gotten an armor set from any of the missions and I just finished the 500 missions achievement.

So I basically never got an armor set for my followers and all the game has given me so far is armor upgrades. I wonder what's up with that...

Comment by lunamore

Is anyone else having issues with getting this item in missions? I have a level 2 salvage yard and I used to get a crate from nearly every mission. I just upgraded the armor and weapons on 2 followers and ever since doing that I haven't received a single crate.

Comment by Axtin

Can anyone confirm if you can get salvage crates from failed missions?

Comment by insanniac

Win or lose, they do drop for you

Comment by Mystterious

For 21 missions completed (18 WIN, 3 lose) I only received 7 crates (average of 33%). How to get more crate? Faster? I already read everything on this page, thank you and have a nice day!

Comment by Mystterious

Is it possible to receive 2 or more crates after completing only 1 mission?

Comment by kommunalaren

did just get this from the box :D
http://www.wowhead.com/item=1190/overseers-cloak

Comment by echoni

I'm not sure if anyone else finds it but...having a lv 2 salvage yard, the drop rates seem to be pretty high if the mission is NOT 100% success (but I think it still has to be > 50% or something, since my friend said 0% won't work).

I have been doing short term quests (30 min - 2 h) for two days just to get the crates, and today, as I recorded, out of a total of 20 missions I got 8 crates. One out of six 100% success missions (16.7%), and seven crates from the other 15 missions (46.7%), although 5 of these failed. Otherwise the drop rate was pretty low for me before I discovered this pattern since I usually do 100% success missions only.

Comment by baaboo

Sadly this page contains no tracker here yet, but a guildy of mine just got Deathcharger's Reins from Crate of Salvage.
I didn't even know the mounts could drop from the crates but he was as confused as the rest of us when the achievement spam occured.

Comment by stigmund

Just gotta say thank god for Salvage Yards.

A while ago I was farming Astral Light Bow for a new mog, and given up hope of finding it.

About a week into 6.0.3 just as all the garrison issues settle down, what drops from a salvage crate? Yup, my weapon :D

Salvage is a great way to get mogs in general, not just the new ones.

Comment by dasbaum

Hotfixes for December 11th
It is now possible to continue to receive Level 95-99 missions even when all Followers are level 100.

Thus we don't need to keep a level 99 follower anymore to max out salvage gain !111one

Comment by Tirain

The Crate of Salvage is the crate awarded via the level 2 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 200 Big Crate of Salvage and 67 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 Vargful

If someone tells you that You can get Corrupted Ashbringer from Crate of Salvage

Thats a lie!

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