Salvage Guide

[Guest TacoThunder]

Hi guys,

Love this site, and this list is single-handedly responsible for getting me back into D3. I've managed to clear at least two of my six stash tabs which was one of the major reasons I stopped playing after 2k hours. With more stash space I now feel comfortable buying the Necromancer DLC.

After looking through this thread I see that several people had the same questions I did, so I wrote some copy that I think would be useful to add to the introduction to the document:

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This list is updated automatically. It references the builds throughout the site, and changes as the builds change. A build is considered outdated when <reason>.

I'm not 100% clear on when something becomes outdated. I assume it's not being updated since the latest patch or some span of time, but filling in the blank at the end there would be nice.

Thanks again!

[MrHandsome 5]

On 4/19/2018 at 3:33 PM, Guest TacoThunder said:

I'm not 100% clear on when something becomes outdated. I assume it's not being updated since the latest patch or some span of time, but filling in the blank at the end there would be nice.

Obviously when mechanics get broken for a build, there is new items for that build that would fit better for boosting the damage, it can't do T13 anymore etc etc. There are a LOT of different possible reasons that a build can be outdated.

[Valks 2,375]

On 09/05/2018 at 6:19 PM, MrHandsome said:

Obviously when mechanics get broken for a build, there is new items for that build that would fit better for boosting the damage, it can't do T13 anymore etc etc. There are a LOT of different possible reasons that a build can be outdated.

Meta changes are always a big point too. If Rat Runs suddenly became useless for some reason, zNecro would likely disappear very quickly with it.

[Styx1781 1]

Correction for Salvage Guide:

Corpsewhisper Pauldrons are used in Corpse Lance Necromancer Speed Farming Variation.

Edited October 20, 2018 by Styx1781

[Styx1781 1]

Correction for Salvage Guide:

Briggs' Wrath is used in Inarius Set Dungeon Guide.

Edited October 20, 2018 by Styx1781

[Guest Andrew]

Bryner's Journey seems to be missing from the salvage guide

[Zeppelin 1]

I guess if an item is not listed in the guide then it is not used in any build?

Like, cord of sherma, bulkathos wedding band, sash of knives, etc.

Extremely useful guide!

Edited August 17, 2018 by Zeppelin

[positiv2 953]

On 8/17/2018 at 8:16 AM, Zeppelin said:

I guess if an item is not listed in the guide then it is not used in any build?

Yes, that should be the case.

[Zeppelin 1]

Correction for Salvage Guide

Corpsewhisper Pauldrons also used in Corpse Lance Necromancer Speed Farming Variation

 

[MrHandsome 5]

Oh, tho it was supposed to be automatic nowadays?

[Styx1781 1]

Correction for Salvage Guide

Nilfur's Boast also used in Meteor Wizard Tal Rasha Variation and Meteor Wizard Speed Farming Variation.

[Styx1781 1]

On 9/16/2018 at 9:46 PM, MrHandsome said:

Oh, tho it was supposed to be automatic nowadays?

I can accept that errors are made sometimes but I am dissapointed that errors submitted in June still have not been addressed or responded to.

[MrHandsome 5]

I've read some response that they'd made it AUTOMATIC to list it in the salvage guide from the guides... apparently its not working as intended

 

[MrHandsome 5]

Balance (monk weapon) showing it being for DH build is a bit strange tho....

Edited October 22, 2018 by MrHandsome

[positiv2 953]

I passed the issue with Balance to Deadset, as it is not an issue with the Salvage guide, but the DH guide; thanks for letting us know about it.

As for Nilfur's Boast, the listed guides are just variants of the Meteor Build, which is listed as the fourth item. Variants are not listed. When a variant uses an item that the main guide does not, it is listed as the main build, though with the link leading to the variant rather than the main build.

[Styx1781 1]

On 10/24/2018 at 5:36 AM, positiv2 said:

I passed the issue with Balance to Deadset, as it is not an issue with the Salvage guide, but the DH guide; thanks for letting us know about it.

As for Nilfur's Boast, the listed guides are just variants of the Meteor Build, which is listed as the fourth item. Variants are not listed. When a variant uses an item that the main guide does not, it is listed as the main build, though with the link leading to the variant rather than the main build.

Thank you for the reponse, although I am a little confused now. It looks like the guide has a new format now where variants are listed in parenthesis after the primary build but not actually linked anymore. The report I previously made for Nilfur's Boast was because it only reported as a Cube item in the primary build but was not showing that the item should be kept in inventory for the variant. I guess we now need to open each variant to see how the item is used.

Does that mean there is now an issue with how the links are setup for the Lightning Archon Wizard and Arcane Torrent Wizard? Both builds still have items listed under multiple variants in the Salvage Guide.

Also, Briggs' Wrath is still used in the Inarius Set Dungeon Guide but is still not showing up in the Salvage Guide.

[positiv2 953]

On 10/30/2018 at 8:32 PM, Styx1781 said:

Thank you for the reponse, although I am a little confused now. It looks like the guide has a new format now where variants are listed in parenthesis after the primary build but not actually linked anymore.

I told Damien about your commend and this was implemented as a way to show that an item is used not only in the main build, but also variations. It is not refined yet, so we would appreciate your feedback about this change if you have any. 

The links still lead to the first page of the build that uses the item. If the item is used in the main build, the link will lead to the gear section, like it did before the change.

On 10/30/2018 at 8:32 PM, Styx1781 said:

Does that mean there is now an issue with how the links are setup for the Lightning Archon Wizard and Arcane Torrent Wizard? Both builds still have items listed under multiple variants in the Salvage Guide.

Not sure if I understand. Do you mean that items that are used in multiple variations of a build but not in the main build have multiple variations listed, like Shadow Impale Demon Hunter for Stone of Jordan? This is one of the things that still need to be polished.

On 10/30/2018 at 8:32 PM, Styx1781 said:

Also, Briggs' Wrath is still used in the Inarius Set Dungeon Guide but is still not showing up in the Salvage Guide.

Thanks! It had Ring of Royal Grandeur listed instead. I submitted a fix for this, which should go live in a few hours.

[Styx1781 1]

23 hours ago, positiv2 said:

Not sure if I understand. Do you mean that items that are used in multiple variations of a build but not in the main build have multiple variations listed, like Shadow Impale Demon Hunter for Stone of Jordan? This is one of the things that still need to be polished. 

For example, Ancient Parthan Defenders is used in both the Solo Progression build for Lightning Archon Wizard and in the Group Progression variant of the Lightning Archon Wizard. Both links are shown under Ancient Parthan Defenders in the Salvage Guide.

This contrasts with an example of Nilfur's Boast. It is listed once in the Meteor Wizard guide with the added description "(Cube + 5 variations)". In that guide it is used in the Cube in the Firebird Solo Progression build, BiS in the Tal Rasha Solo Progression variant, used in the Cube in the Star Pact variant and BiS in the Speed Farming variant.

I think perhaps you answered my question already in that this is still being polished as builds are currently being listed in different ways right now. In terms of feedback, I like both of the formats used in the examples above but in both cases I have one request/suggestion.

1. If you decide to proceed with the "new" format used in the Nilfur's Boast example, it would be lovely if the comments following the link could include something like "(BiS/Cube)" to indicate that it is used as a BiS item and in the Cube in different variants. I can see this as a potential issue in automation since the comments might be difficult to automate. Nilfur's Boast is a good example of the potential challenge since the item is used in the primary Meteor Wizard build and in 3 variants, not 5 as is listed in the guide.

2. If including all of the BiS/Cube/Alt information in the description is an issue from an automation standpoint, the "old" format of listing each build link as a separate line still works, as in the above example for Ancient Parthan Defenders. If it were at all possible, though, it would be really nice to have the name for each link changed to specify which build variant is being linked. it looks like the build variant name is already included in the URL for each variant, so perhaps this would be easier to automate with how the builds and web pages are currently structured.

In any case, I really appreciate the work that you all do to put all your guides together and the time taken to read and respond to our forum posts.

Edited November 1, 2018 by Styx1781

[Guest Further]

This is likely the most important resource online for D3 players, so thank you! Please, please, please, make this a priority update for the season 16 changes! 

[Guest Updated?]

When was this last updated?

[Styx1781 1]

On 4/14/2019 at 9:44 AM, Guest Updated? said:

When was this last updated?

If you click on any of the classes you can see the last update for each build. Most were updated in mid May 2019. The salvage guide is linked to those builds and updates automatically. There have been a few isolated instances of links to wrong pages and such, which is what a lot of prior comments were about, but everything that I have personally checked over the past several months has been accurate.

[Guest Nightviper]

my one question or am i just blind are there no demon hunter items on this list ie dawn and Yang's Recurve dont show up and i know they are used for the top teir build 

[Valks 2,375]

11 hours ago, Guest Nightviper said:

my one question or am i just blind are there no demon hunter items on this list ie dawn and Yang's Recurve dont show up and i know they are used for the top teir build 

It will be fixed soon, sorry about that!

[Damien 1,514]

13 hours ago, Guest Nightviper said:

my one question or am i just blind are there no demon hunter items on this list ie dawn and Yang's Recurve dont show up and i know they are used for the top teir build 

It's fixed, sorry about that. I made a deploying error last night when I pushed some updates ?

[Styx1781 1]

The Rend Wastes Speed Farming Build calls for Goldwrap in Kanai's Cube but this is not being reflected in the Salvage Guide.