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Comment by Esinar

Salvage crates, such as Venture Co. 'Salvage', are new to patch 8.3 and are basically a form of loot box that allows you to spend Seafarer's Dubloon for a chance at the Island Expedition rewards.

They are sold by a new vendor near the Island Expedition Map Table - Captain Kitt for the Horde and Captain Nightrunner for the Alliance.

The epic-quality salvage crates cost 175 Seafarer's Dubloon and the rare-quality salvage crates cost 120 Seafarer's Dubloon. Currently on the PTR, the vendors only sell three types of these epic/rare-quality salvage crates at any given time. Whichever salvage crates are available at the vendor rotates every week, just like the available islands do, but is unrelated to the actual islands that are available that week. For example, on the first reset after the PTR went live, the islands available were Molten Cay, Jorundall and Verdant Wilds and the vendor sold Dread Chain Salvage, Havenswood Salvage and Skittering Hollow Salvage. On the second reset, the islands available were Rotting Mire, Verdant Wilds and Skittering Hollow and the vendor sold Havenswood Salvage, Snowblossom Salvage and Verdant Wilds Salvage. So if you want a specific salvage crate, you will have to wait until the week it is available.

The uncommon-quality salvage crates may or may not be available on any given week and their chance of being available seems to be unrelated to the epic/rare-quality salvage crates. The Elemental Salvage costs 75 Seafarer's Dubloon and the Venture Co. 'Salvage' costs 50 Seafarer's Dubloon.

The crates have a chance to drop any available reward from that specific island including transmog, rep items, toys, pets and most lucratively, mounts. I’m unsure if the quest-starting items for the achievement Tell Me A Tale are obtainable through these salvage crates as I have obtained them all (and therefore can't get them again).

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On the PTR, I have opened 100 of each salvage crate type to get a rough idea of what drops and what the drop chances are, deleting unique items as soon as I obtain them so I have the potential to get them again. Remember this is only an estimate as 100 crates of each isn’t nearly enough data to get a completely accurate drop chance.

As an extra note, I had already obtained Surf Jelly and Bloodgorged Hunter on live before my testing and obtained Craghorn Chasm-Leaper on live halfway through testing. From my testing and reading comments I can say with absolute certainty that you cannot obtain a mount that you have already learned. I will add a note if others report obtaining one of these mounts from a particular salvage though.

Here are my results:

From the 100 Skittering Hollow Salvage
Transmog items - 213 - ‘Spider Acolyte’ cloth items
Rep items - 37
Toys - 31 - Whiskerwax Candle (11) / Enchanted Soup Stone (20)
Pets - 22 - Various
Mounts - 22 - Stonehide Elderhorn (7) / Craghorn Chasm-Leaper (15)
Other - 3 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

From the 100 Havenswood Salvage
Transmog items - 210 - ‘Faceless Follower’s’ cloth items / ‘Dark Animator’s’ cloth items / ‘Duskhaven’ cloth items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 28
Toys - 0
Pets - 42
Mounts - 20 - Risen Mare (14) / Stonehide Elderhorn (6) ( Bloodgorged Hunter possibly also drops from this crate)
Other - 3 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

From the 100 Dread Chain Salvage
Transmog items - 212 - ‘Frostwind’ cloth items / ‘Miststalker’s’ leather items / Tomb-Keeper’s plate items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 34
Toys - 0
Pets - 41
Mounts - 18 - Stonehide Elderhorn (3) / Qinsho's Eternal Hound (11) / Craghorn Chasm-Leaper (4)
Other - 0

From the 100 Snowblossom Salvage
Transmog items - 213 - ‘Swarmfury’ cloth items / ‘Tomb-Keeper’s’ plate items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 34
Toys - 0
Pets - 44
Mounts - 17 - Qinsho's Eternal Hound (10) / Stonehide Elderhorn (7) | ( Bloodgorged Hunter also drops from this crate)
Other - 5 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

From the 100 Rotting Mire Salvage
Transmog items - 221 - ‘Razorfin’ plate items / ‘Saurok Scale’ mail items / pirate items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 29
Toys - 0
Pets - 38
Mounts - 23 - Stonehide Elderhorn (12) / Squawks (11)
Other - 6 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

From the 100 Crestfall Salvage
Transmog items - 228 - ‘Black Tooth Grunt’s’ plate items / ‘Twilight Dragons’ plate items / pirate items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 51
Toys - 0
Pets - 26
Mounts - 19 - Squawks (7) / Stonehide Elderhorn (6) / Twilight Avenger (6) ( Bloodgorged Hunter possibly also drops from this crate)
Other - 1 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

From the 100 Jorundall Salvage
Transmog items - 234 - 'Fallen Runelord' leather items / 'Sleetguard' plate items / 'Bloodwake' plate items / 'Winterscale' mail items / 'Frosthoof' leather items / 'Plundered' weapons
Rep items - 22
Toys - 0
Pets - 37
Mounts - 22 - Island Thunderscale (16) / Stonehide Elderhorn (6) ( Bloodgorged Hunter possibly also drops from this crate)
Other - 0

From the 100 Verdant Wilds Salvage
Transmog items - 222 - ‘Feralbark’ leather items / ‘Spiritbough’ leather items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 33
Toys - 0
Pets - 38
Mounts - 15 - Stonehide Elderhorn
Other - 3 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

From the 100 Un'gol Ruins Salvage
Transmog items - 187 - ‘Headshrinker’s’ mail items / ‘Of the Tranquil Path’ leather items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 34
Toys - 39 - Oomgut Ritual Drum (18) / Magic Monkey Banana (13) / Bad Mojo Banana (8)
Pets - 27
Mounts - 21 - Stonehide Elderhorn
Other - 8 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

From the 100 Molten Cay Salvage
Transmog items - 211 - ‘Rattling Bone’ plate items / ‘Voodoo Stalker’s’ mail items / ‘Wild Marauder’s’ mail items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 31
Toys - 0
Pets - 36
Mounts - 21 - Stonehide Elderhorn
Other - 2 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

From the 100 Whispering Reef Salvage
Transmog items - 203 - ‘Mrrglurggl’ mail items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 29
Toys - 0
Pets - 49 (both Coldlight Surfrunner and Juvenile Brineshell drop from this crate)
Mounts - 25 - Stonehide Elderhorn | ( Surf Jelly possibly drops from this crate )
Other - 4 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

From the 100 Elemental Salvage
Transmog items - 206 - ‘Hydraxian’ cloth items / ‘Firekin’ leather items / ‘Whirling Dervish’ leather items / ‘Geocrag’ plate items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 52
Toys - 0
Pets - 50 (only the elemental pets as you’d expect)
Mounts - 0
Other - 7 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

From the 100 Venture Co. 'Salvage'
Transmog items - 284 - ‘Dragonrider’s’ mail items / ‘Plundered’ weapons
Rep items - 25
Toys - 0
Pets - 0
Mounts - 0
Other - 8 - Layered Information Kernel of E-steam

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From my openings I will state the following:
- Each salvage crate contains at least 3 items. Occasionally you will get 4 items.
- Transmog is the most common item and each salvage crate contains specific sets and weapons.
- Your class and spec seems to have no effect on the transmog items you get from the salvage crates.
- Rep turn-in items are common and can come in stacks of 1-2. I’ve only counted the times they dropped, not the actual number of rep items I obtained.
- The salvage crates that drop toys have a relatively high chance of dropping them.
- The salvage crates that drop pets (most of them) have a relatively high chance of dropping them. I didn’t really think it was worth listing since there are so many pets that can drop.
- You can obtain specific mounts from specific salvage crates and the drop chance appears to be around 20%. Not sure if this changes depending on whether you already have any of the mounts that can drop.
- You cannot obtain a mount you already have from the salvage crates. I know this as I obtained Craghorn Chasm-Leaper on live and opened another 100 Skittering Hollow Salvage and only got Stonehide Elderhorn. In addition, I have never seen Bloodgorged Hunter drop for myself despite others getting it.
- I have no idea what Layered Information Kernel of E-steam is atm, but it drops from most of the salvage crates.

Comment by MikeRozakis

Captain Nightrunner DOES NOT sell Venture Co. 'Salvage' as Wowhead says.
Anyone knows how to obtaine this box?

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