[Renyak Meta Broken]

It gets worse. The chests at the end of the Meta now spawn as soon as Renyak appears. If any of these chests are looted during the fight, it fails the Meta automatically. So, you can guess the amount of trolling that has been happening. Thank you Anet, indeed.

[How does Research Kit work?]

I'm having the same problem. It literally can't salvage anything I crafted or bought from the TP.  No one in map chat is willing to help with figuring this out either... of course.