Return of Reckoning

Right now, salvaging is a bit tough to lvl. I have doubts that fresh players are able to reach a skill which allows them to close the gap between their bad gear and old players BIS gear. Yes, gear is not everything but without, you're just a pretty little pinata. It's not about making it super easy, as I know this is end-game atm, but about making it possible. (my cost to get to 170: ~200 gold, not complaining... I got lucky and can afford it, but others can't - they have to go on a mob grinding spree)


My suggested changes:

1. Shattered Figurine - right now, you can only lvl up to 7 with it. This leads to almost no armor for low lvls in the auction house anymore.
----->> increase the potential gain up to 45, low lvls still can make some money from low gear and it's not too easy.

2. Critical Failures
There are just too many. Decrease the rate a bit. Even if it's just a hidden base percentage for having a success (like 10-20%) and the other % shown just add onto it.

3. Critical Success
Haven't seen any so far but there should be a chance to get blue fragments from green items and epixxx from blue ones.

4. Skill ups
Right now, skill ups come in strange waves (a row of skill ups) that don't seem to be logical. No skill up for an item that only had a 45% chance but one for an item that had a chance of 77% chance.
----->> if it's a chance to be successful of about 45%, there should always be a skill up, if it's a chance of 55% a 50% chance to get a skill up, if it's about 65%+, only a 25% chance

5. Item spread
Right now, only doom-caller will give you lvl 125 fragments. Slightly above or slightly below, it's 100 or 150.
----->> allow some of the rvr items to be salvaged like the 26 ones (the lvl 26 cloaks are salvagable but give 150 fragments) - don't know what's less work: just allowing one of those rvr armors or generally allow rvr gear to be up for salvaging

Salvaging works just fine. Hit 200 in like 3 hours

how did you that? i salvaged for 2 hours, i got to skill level 2 ....

Start small, get those figures from vendor, don't salvage red stuff, yellow at best, to minimize the chances of failure, tho it happens anyway.
And remember that same logic applies to salvaging as to scavenging.
1 item level = 5 levels of salvaging skill

yes but i farmed like for an hour got 50 items from which only ONE was salvagable at all? (thus my level 2 ^^)

i farmed in t1 lvl5-8 mobs? any tipps?

Told you: get magical figures from crafting vendor, or from monster drops(which is way more time consuming) and salvage those

Figurines get you up to 7.

and after that?

Really? Gotta try again with another char when server goes up, thought they get you to like 15 or 20
After figurines - farm gear, low level drops like charm

Get low lvl armor.

All armor items that have no RR requirement. All weapons that aren't "or off hand". All belts.