Quick Enchanting Guide
***You need the Philosopher Stone to enchant gear***
























There are 2 ways to add/improve stats using the Philosophers Stone:

1.) 1 Flawed Shard and 3 Essence

or

2.) 1 Gem and 3 Essence

[What is Essence?]
















































Essence has 3 rarities:

[Green] Lesser Dark Essence
[Blue] Dark Essence
[Purple] Greater Dark Essence

The higher the rarity of your essence, the greater the chance your item will reach its maximum potential.


[What is maximum potential?]

Every item has an item level which is the level requirement to equip the item. (You can equip an item 10 levels higher before level 100 and at 100, you can equip any item level)

The higher the item level of the item, the higher the maximum value EACH stat can roll.

Lets say I have a level 1 Chest and we assume the maximum potential is 25 of each stat. A PERFECT chest would look like this:

Strength 25
Dexterity 25
Vitality 25
Intellect 25
Conviction 25
Elemental 25
Runic 25
Divinity 25
Weapons 25
Defense 25

(NOTE: Yes, each item can roll EVERY stat to the maximum potential. This is not an easy task.)

Armor Value (Armor value currently can't be modified but will be able to in the future with armor scraps.)

NOTE: The maximum potential of each item level is UNKNOWN. So you need to keep trying to enchant and when you start seeing "Failed to improve stat"

IMAGE SHOWS ITEM LEVEL CIRCLED, MAXIMUM POTENTIAL OF EACH STAT IS AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT.
























[What does it mean to fail to improve stat?]

When the maximum potential is 25 FOR EXAMPLE, and your strength on the item is 24, when you enchant the item, EACH attempt will try to roll a 25. If it doesn't roll a 25 it will say "Failed to improve stats". So as you get closer to the maximum, the harder it will be to become perfect.


[How to find upgrades and determine what to enchant?]

For armor, I look at the armor value currently because it can't be modified. Then, I look at the stats. If it has high armor and a decent amount of stats already on it, I will consider enchanting it.

For weapons, I look at the weapon damage if I am a skill spammer or the DPS if I actually benefit from auto attacks.


[Enchanting gear while leveling: Tips and Advice]

While you level up, its very helpful to have enchanted gear. Imagine running around with maxed out gear in every slot. Well, you will be lacking a few things. GOLD, ESSENCE, and GEMS....

Essence is by far the easiest way to enchant gear. It randomly adds or improves a stat on the item. GEMS choose a specific stat to improve. So if you are short on gold, using gems would be smarter if you don't need a certain stat or if you are short on gold.


[How to obtain gems and shards?]

[GEMS] - Killing ANY monsters can yield flawed shards as well as looting barrels/chests.

[SHARDS] - Killing dungeon bosses yield gems BUT you can also get gems from taking 1 Jewelers Kit and 2 Raw Ore. This has roughly a ~20% chance to succeed, if you don't get any gems, that is why.

[SHARDS] - The philosopher stone (Set it to common) also has a recipe where you take 3 random equipment items and you have a chance to get another equipment item, raw ore, or jewelers kit. (Example. 2 helmets and 1 chest combined can turn into a raw ore.)

***The crafting method doesn't work with relics and if you are combining shields, it seems like you must use 3 shields. Otherwise, everything else should combine together like 1 shoulder, 1 necklace, and 1 boot for example.***


CRAFTING METHOD BEFORE AND AFTER COMBINING THREE ITEMS PICTURED BELOW:









































ORE nodes also spawn in the world and in dungeons BUT this is currently buggy because of the way the world/instances is generated. When the developer patches that, mining in the overworld will be a thing. For now, the best way to get raw iron is from killing monsters, looting chests/barrels, crafting them or running the dungeons.

EDIT [12/3/2019] : There was a patch that fixed the 3 to 1 recipe in the cube. Now it will give you a random equipment item with a random rarity, even legendary is possible. =-D

[How to make gold?]

Lastly, gold is important because the more stats your item has from enchanting, the more costly it will become to put more stats on the item.

Gold is obtained from either doing repeatable quests OR selling items to the vendor. Weapons seem to sell more than armor so I would always vendor weapons you don't need.

Step 1: Complete the Elite Ursurper quest to obtain Philosopher stone.

Step 2: You are now able to craft using the stone.

Step 3: Kill monsters or do dungeons to obtain essence (via disenchanting green+ items), flawed shards, and stat gems (which can also be obtained with 1 jewelers kit and 2 raw iron).

Step 4: Place the item you want to upgrade in the center of the stone. Put materials on the outer ring and make sure its set to "infuse gem". Viola! Upgrading!

As for item level/max stats per item, just think of it as, the higher the items level, the higher the stats can get via enchanting!