Materials - salvaging the materials | Crafting Guild Wars 2 Guide

Another method of getting the resources is to salvage the collected item using the salvage kit. During the fight, you'll not once loot weapons, armors, pieces of metal, skins or cloths. Some of them may be marked as Salvage Items. It means that their only destination is to be processed to a proper materials.

One of the items you can salvage.

Salvaging such items always give you one, defined component. In case of skins and cloths it's the only one (besides trading) way to get them:

Level	Cloth scrap	Bolt of cloth	Spool of thread	Leather section	Leather square
1	Jute	Jute	Jute	Rawhide	Rawhide
2	Wool	Wool	Wool	Thin	Thin
3	Cotton	Cotton	Cotton	Coarse	Coarse
4	Linen	Linen	Linen	Rugged	Rugged
5	Silk	Silk	Silk	Thick	Thick
6	Gossamer	Gossamer	Gossamer	Hardened	Hardened

What is more, the salvage kit may be used on weapons, armors and jewellery. In such case you get basic ingredients which were required to craft them (ore, skin, log) and you'll have a chance to get a rare components, what depends on the quality of the set you've used. Furthermore, they allow you to regain upgrades from the item: the more expensive kit, the more often you'll succeed.

To dismantle an item you need to double click on the salvage set and then choose what you want to take to pieces. Ingredients appear in the inventory automatically.

All materials above were gained by the salvage kit.