Vitus Essence

is a special resource that only appears on Arbitrations.
==Acquisition==
*Vitus Essence is primarily obtained from Arbitrations:
**1 Vitus is guaranteed from completing a rotation, separate from the reward table.
**Each rotation has a 7% chance to award 3 Vitus from the reward table.
**Arbitration Shield Drones have a 6% chance to drop 1 Vitus on kill.
==Drop Locations==
==Usage==
*Vitus Essence is used to buy items from the Arbitrations Vendor NPC in the Arbiters of Hexis room of any relay. Availability of wares are not affected by the player's reputation with the syndicate.
Click to view the items purchased with Vitus Essence.
*Vitus Essence is also used to craft Ephemeras of the Body and Step series.
Click to view the Blueprints requiring Vitus Essence
Blueprint 	Type 	Quantity(Research)
 	Resource	1
Blazing Step Ephemera 	Cosmetic	1
Bleeding Body Ephemera	Cosmetic	1
Freezing Step Ephemera	Cosmetic	1
Seeding Step Ephemera 	Cosmetic	1
Shocking Step Ephemera	Cosmetic	1
Smoking Body Ephemera 	Cosmetic	1
 	Resource	(1)
Total 	7 (+1)								
Research	 								
==Notes==
*To purchase everything from the Arbitrations Vendor at least once, players need 905 Vitus Essence.
*Unlooted Vitus Essence from Arbitration Shield Drones will despawn after 5 minutes. They frequently disappear much earlier than this, most often between 1-3 minutes. Their waypoint UI is supposed to flash as they are about to disappear but this also does not work as intended, so do not wait for any flash before looting.
*The Vitus Illumina decoration appears invisible unless GPU particles option is turned on to at least minimal in the graphics settings.
*The Ayatan Amber Star blueprint is reusable. Each star requires , 2 Ayatan Cyan Stars and 1 Vitus Essence.
*Vitus Essence dropped from Arbitration Shield Drones can be multiplied by a Resource Booster and /.
*Arbitration Shield Drones are unaffected by 's , 's , 's , 's , 's , 's and Chesa Kubrow's .
==Trivia==
*Prior to , Vitus Essence's icon was a recolored Nitain Extract icon.
**Similarly, while Nitain Extract is internally labeled as "Alertium", Vitus Essence is labeled as "Elitium" – Arbitrations were originally workshopped under the moniker of Elite Alerts.
*Vitus means "of life" in Latin, the item's name can be taken literally as essence of life.
==Patch History==
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