Essence crafting

Open the Essence page or the complete application table and select the target item type. The same Essence can grant different modifiers to weapons, armour, jewellery, and other targets.

• Match the target type exactly.
• Check the modifier level and resulting requirement where shown.
• Do not infer an effect from the Essence name alone.

Use Lesser, normal, or Greater Essences on a Magic item to upgrade it to Rare and add the guaranteed modifier. Use Perfect or Corrupted Essences on a Rare item to remove a random modifier and add the guaranteed modifier.

• Build useful Magic modifiers before the upgrade step.
• For a Rare target, identify every modifier that would be painful to lose.

Omen of Dextral Crystallisation makes the next eligible Perfect or Corrupted Essence remove only a suffix. Omen of Sinistral Crystallisation makes it remove only a prefix. The Omen is consumed when triggered.

• Confirm that the exact Essence is eligible for the Omen.
• Activate only the Omen that protects the side of the item you need to keep.

Using a Vaal Orb on an imprisoned Essence monster changes the Essences held by that encounter. The monster encounter is the target. This is not the same as using a Vaal Orb directly on a Perfect Essence in the inventory.

• Use the encounter outcome table before applying the Vaal Orb.
• Treat the encounter state and the held Essence as separate parts of the process.

The Reforging Bench has exact tier conversion recipes and separate random result pools for Greater and Perfect Essences. A list of possible results does not prove equal weighting.

• Check the exact input count and tier before reforging.
• Use the pool list as possible outcomes unless a source publishes weights.