Salvaging a primal ancient should give you a crafting material - let’s call it “primal soul” or something. We can then have a new cube recipe: If you put this primal soul into the cube along with a legendary item that had one of its stats rerolled at the enchanter, that reroll will be “forged into” the legendary. You can now go reroll another stat on it! This would make any primal ancient you find very valuable since they would practically let you craft your own primal ancients. No more junk primals!
So like 4 junk primals gets you the absolute best rolled weapon? This is even better than finding the exact item you are searching for in primal format. This is too trivial.
If I may recommend a change to your suggestion. Allow a primal soul to reroll an affix only once per consumption. If the mystic requires you to reroll 8 times to get the desired affix, you’ll need 8 junk primals to salvage into 8 primal souls. You’ll likely need several primal souls to even find the right affix.
If you choose to reroll a Primal item’s affix, the rerolled affix is always is maxed. There is now a reasonable path to improve poorly rolled primals.
If you choose to reroll an ancient, you aren’t guaranteed a perfect reroll. This is a valid path only when 1 affix on your ancient is undesirable.
There are cool things you can do with this…
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Ever want your Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac to have 6% CHC, 50% CHD and 20% AD? Try your luck with Primal Souls.
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How about a trifecta Ess of Johan?
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Does your Primal Ninth Cirri Satchel not have CHC?
Yes, salvaging primal items should yield another crafting mat rather than the lame 15 FS.
This crafting mat should do what dmkt suggests or grants you the option to roll another stat, so yes 2 enchants. The cost should be high like 10 or 20/25 mats. Each primal salvage should only yield 1 mat.
Mystic should have another tab designated for primal enchant using the new mat.
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Increase the salvage from 15 FS to 50 OR add an extra 100% damage to Lon/LoD so you get 850% damage per primal + 6% damage reduction (up from 4%).
and when all your characters have perfectly rolled equipment what you going to do with all those now useless primals you pickup
Zap a primal ancient and gain a primal soul.
Use that primal soul to max out any stat on a legendary.
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Use that primal soul to reroll an additional affix on a primal ancient.
We’ve already got a Cube recipe that upgrades rares to legendaries. How about a new recipe that upgrades an ancient into a primal (with the exact same affixes) which needs a large number of these primal souls as an ingredient?
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Yeah it is just a question of balancing that right, which will be hard without a SSF mode, since what is to easy to reach in 4 man groups is almost impossible for a pure solo player.
I agree with the basic idea though, that it could be fun. Just as that the idea you could change the legendary affix on a primal item if have enough primal souls or add them to a set item. A bit the idea of the ethereal season. That could be fun as well, even if keep it within the items class, so only helm affixes for the primal helm. Would be some incredible power creep though if easily available before first two months season passed so should be really really hard to attain whether playing solo or in a group. maybe rather add it to a whole bunch of slow achievements earned over the season like amount demons slain, bounties done (by the player himself, not the group total. A bit like the seasonal journey without the benefits of group play and taking way longer to complete, where devs could take into account if they want to give you option to complete it thirteen times or just for one or two items max)) and such as based on drops per se besides having to extract it from a primal item and needing a primal to enter it on.
You could also restrict the legendary affixes it applies to and only be able to do it with affixes/items that are hardly used now so it would add less power creep to start with or only to leg items that have no affix now like Exarian, storm shield or vigilant belt and such (even if vigilant might be bit OP with a leg affix added 
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