Gladiatus Smelting
In the Smelter you can melt down your equipment to earn resources. Simply select the item you no longer need and melt it down into its constituent parts. Of course, the smelting process is not without its costs, and you will never recover all of the resources which were invested in an item.
Smelting is the ability to smelt an item back to its forging goods (materials). It is the fundamental way of obtaining materials.
How to Smelt
Navigate to the Smelter interface: Forge → Smelter tab
Simply drag the item you want to smelt and start smelting.
Smelting Facts
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First two smelting slots cost
and the other four cost 
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Duration of the smelt depends on the item level, type, and quality. Orange/Red amulets at item level 100+ can take 48+ hours to smelt.
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Scroll Drop Chance: There is a small chance (~5%) that the smelt will also produce a scroll with either the Prefix or the Suffix. This can be beneficial to smelt items with Prefixes/Suffixes that you don't have but need.
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Material Types: What type of materials you will get from the item you want to smelt is entirely dependent on what the Prefix + Base Item + Suffix cost in materials to make. Therefore, the materials required to forge an item will also be produced when smelting the same item. However, smelting will not guarantee the same amount of materials needed to forge the item.
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Targeted Smelting: You can specifically target items with the desired Prefix and sometimes even Suffix to get the exact materials you need. The Items page can be very useful in that case.
- Example: If you need Amethysts or Crystals, target Gaius or Antonius weapons and smelt them. You can even buy Green or Blue quality from the Auction House if you need Amethysts for repairs.
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Material Quantity: The number of materials you get depends on the composition of the item. If you are smelting Lucius, you will get
in bigger quantities because it is the most fundamental part of crafting a Lucius prefix (30× ). -
Quality Impact: Lesser qualities like Green or Blue will give less total materials from a smelt than superior qualities like Purple, Orange, or Red.
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Farming for Repairs: If you are farming for repair materials and you don't care about quality, search the Auction House for a prefix which you know will smelt into the material you are looking for. Try to choose item slots like gloves, helmets, and boots, which have shorter smelting times.
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Material Distribution: The number of materials you get from the smelt seems to be directly linked to the number of materials needed to forge the particular prefix or suffix. If the suffix being melted has Amethysts as the most required material to forge, you will likely get the highest number of Amethysts from the smelt.
Quality Rules
General Quality Rule
When you smelt an item, you can get the same quality of materials as well as -1 and +1 qualities.
Example: If you smelt Orange, you can get Red, Orange, and Purple materials.
Multiple Quality Drops
You may get the same material in different qualities from the same smelt.
Example: You are smelting an Orange item which can produce Crystals. You can get 1-2 Red Crystals, 4-5 Orange Crystals, and 4-5 Purple Crystals from a single smelt. The same way, if you smelt a Red item, you will get a random variation of Red and Orange materials.
Smelting Examples
Let's examine controlled smelts of Orange items and observe the results.
Example 1
Smelting an orange 120 item level ring. We can see the possible smelting materials and on the right side what the smelt actually produced.
and the 
did not come out of the smelt at all.
Total materials: 36
The rest of the materials came in different low quantities. Both 
and 
came in two colors: Orange and Purple. No Red materials this time. Some materials came only in Orange and some only in Purple.
Example 2
Similar to the above example, a couple of materials were not present after smelting, and four came in two different qualities: Orange and Purple. No Red materials again.
Example 3
Crystal comes in 3 different colors: Purple, Orange, and Red!
The rest of the materials show behavior seen in other examples: combinations of Purple and Orange. Again, a few materials didn't show up in the result at all.
Total materials: 38
Example 4
This time we have all materials present in the result! We even have a Red item and, just like with the Crystal above, in all 3 possible colors. Interesting that the lowest color (Purple) produces the most amount.
Total materials: 42
Example 5
Only 1 item not shown in the result. No triple colors here. Just the usual combo of Purple and Orange.
Total materials: 32
Example 6
Good smelt. Two Red materials. Both 
and produce all 3 colors.
Total materials: 30
Example 7
In this example we don't have any Red items, unfortunately, but it shows the exact same pattern as the other examples. Two materials in single color and the rest in 2 colors.
Total materials: 31
Smelting Red Items
Let's examine what happens when smelting entirely Red items.
Red Item Example 1
This is a very rare low-level Red item. It is only a suffix applied to the item, so the total material count is not high. From the 3 possible materials, 1 is Red.
Red Item Example 2
First, it takes 71 hours to smelt a 126 level Red amulet. Second, the results are conclusive. When you smelt Red, you will get a lot of Orange, but you will have guaranteed Red materials from at least the top 2 materials.
Red Item Example 3 (Zimbris)
Very successful smelt. All of the materials involved in the Zimbris prefix and the Retribution suffix are present. Every possible material came Red!