Missions & Complexes

Is it worth it, or should I just move on and concentrate on killing stuff?

Thanks. Also I noticed that the price for one particular salvage "Alloyed Tritanium Bar" is higher than the others. What type of mission can do to salvage those? And how come the price is so much higher than the other ones?

Thanks, how about the Armor Plates, who drops those?

I tend to salvage whilst I loot whilst I shoot, so it doesn't really take that much longer. Over time the salvage starts to add up and can be worthwhile, but I certainly don't focus on it much.

IMO, the best salvage and loot is other people's salvage and loot.

All joking aside, I believe your best ISKies is in Bloods/Sanshas and then Angels. The Amarr NPCs drop a far higher rate of armor plates plus, with Bloods, you get the occasional Unstable Neut. Angels will throw a PWNAGE every now and then as well. Drone loot and salvage is overrated IMHO, but mission bears get pretty upset when we steal it (for some reason). So many of the Drone BS have no compounds but rather the worthless Elite Drone AI thingy; annoying.

Over the past 18 months or so, Trit Bars and Armor have fallen a good bit in price, to the point where Guristas salvage is almost "good". Actually, Guristas drop a fair number of Ward Consoles which are a critical bit for medium Shield Rigs (Core Defense and Purger). Ward Consoles haven't caught up with Trit Bars yet, but I could see that happening at some point.

As to the OP's original question, blitzing, which is what you're considering, is more profitable once you've found a good LP store and have a high end ship to run missions at a very fast clip.

While op did ask about salvage only, one should note that salvaging and not looting is stupid, thus i believe both rat loot and salvage should be taken into account.
Gurista will still suck though

5 tractor / 3 salv or 6 tractor / 2 salv split depending on salv skills and rigs is a better idea, with the ability to lock 12 targets so you need targetting skills too. Otherwise you aren't taking full advantage of it, 4 salvagers is overkill and 4 tractors is not enough.

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Ardovinus
Red-headed stepchild of the Minmatar Republic

Not sure how much people make each hour blitzing level 4's but I used to do L4's like a madman and would loot everything I could. For a long time I wasn't salvaging but I figured since I usually have all the wrecks near me I may as well train into it... Only took 2 days, the Noctis pretty cheap, around 70 mil fitted IIRC. Made that money back in no time because salvaging boosted my isk/hour by a significant amount. Not only was I getting money from the salvage loot but it cut down the amount of time I spent at each mission due to looting faster, the Noctis is epic.

TLDR: If you're not blitzing it is a very good idea to salvage.

I have an alt that salvages after the corp I am in runs missions, my personal noctis layout is 6 tractors and 2 t2 salvagers mids are 10mn afterburner ii lows are 3 expanded cargohold ii with a gsc in the cargohold and 3 medium salvage tackle I rigs targeting to level 5 and ore industrial to level 4 I single cycle most battle ships and can even single cycle a lot of sleeper wrecks. I can make around 15mill after salvaging 2 level 4 missions, the only downside is that I salvage the whole mission faster than the team that runs the site.