Workmanship comes in the following qualities:
 

Workmanship	Quality
No Workmanship	0-1
Well-Crafted	2
Finely Crafted	3
Exquisitely Crafted	4
Magnificently Crafted	5
Nearly Flawless	6
Flawless	7
Utterly Flawless	8
Incomparable	9
Priceless	10

To salvage, double-click your Ust and the salvage panel will open. Place the loot you want to salvage in the window (you can put more than one item in the window at a time, but it must be of the same material type), then click the salvage button. A sack of the salvage will appear in your main pack. The number of units of salvage you receive depends on the workmanship of the items and on your salvaging skill, but the burden of your bags will always be 100. It's a great way to carry loot from the field without worrying about becoming overburdened! Vendors are happy to purchase the salvage from you if you choose not to apply it an item.

Note: Some players claim that salvaging each item separately instead of all at once yields a higher number of units.

In order to apply salvage, you will need to have 100 units, or a full sack. You can combine salvage of the same type together until you reach 100 units, but be aware that combining lower quality salvage will reduce the overall quality of your bag. If you combine two bags of salvage that total over 100 units, the excess will be lost.

You must be trained in one of the tinkering skills to enhance an item. Double-click on the salvage, then use it on the item you want to enhance. The higher the tinkering skill, the higher the chances of success. Other factors of success are the quality of the salvage (higher is better), the type of salvage you are applying (some materials are more difficult to apply than others), the workmanship of the item you are tinkering (a lower workmanship on the item will give you better success) and the number of times the item has been tinkered already. You can only tinker an item a total of 10 times. Each attempt at enhancement becomes increasingly difficult to succeed. If the tinkering attempt fails, your item will be destroyed! The salvage will be used whether the attempt succeeds or fails.

During the Across the Vast Divide event, a new feature to tinkering was added. When you try to apply salvage, a screen pops up informing you of your chances of success! Salvage was also added as a quest reward during the On Bended Knee event. Complete the Burun Kings quest for a chance to receive a bag of salvage with Workmanship 10!

Experienced tinkers will try to find items with workmanship of 3 or less for the maximum number of enhancements. Items with workmanship around 4-5 can usually be tinkered 7-8 times. Ten tinkers can be done if the skill of the tinker is very high. If the workmanship is higher than 6, the skill checks become increasingly difficult and more risky.

Most tinkers choose to hold a Focusing Stone when attempting to enhance an item.

Note: To prevent player dishonesty, a local message is broadcast with the tinkering result.

The following pages explain each of the types of tinkering in more detail: