Crafting

This is the Phlosopher's Shard

The Quest Reward for Pariah's Quest "The Scryer".

It is the "crafting table" in Reign of Darkness.

There are many ways to use it, and this guide will contain the current recipes and useful tips, if you want to learn crafting.

There are different ways to use the Shard.

When you open the Shard (right-click) a window will open.

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You have 12 Slots in the outer Ring and 1 in the middle.

If you click on "None" you can choose a crafting task from the list, which include: Common, Create Gem(s), Infuse Gem(s), Appearance and Disenchant.

**I will explain them all, beginning with Common.**

Common is the operation with the most recipes and is at the same time the easiest operation of the Shard.

Lets start with Arrows.

Needed items: 1x Briar Branches and 1 Iron ore to Craft the minimum of 10 Arrows.

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You put them in the outer Ring of the Shard.

Choose "Common" from the dropdownn and hit Transmute.

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The next common recipe is crafting bags.
The resulting bag will have a random number of slots. As you level up, the amount of potential slots you can get increases, so it is often better to wait or to ask a high level character to help you, to improve your chances. Crafted bags can have from 5, up to 22 slots, though anything over 20 is pretty rare to get.

Needed Items: 20x Twaine and 20x Leather Scraps.

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Place the items in the outer ring again and click Transmute.

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Random Gear Pieces

If you have 3 or more Gear pieces (The rarity of the item doesnt matter, it doesnt change the possibility to get a better gear piece), you can put them into the outer ring of the Shard, and Transmute.
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The chances of getting a good item from this are pretty low (although it does happen), however it is an effective way to clean junk out of your inventory on the move, if you have white items that can't be disenchanted.

**The next Operation would be "Create Gems".**

Items needed are 1x Jewelerskit and 2x Raw Ore to create 1-2 Gems.
This operation has a chance to create a gem about 25% of the time.
Place the Jewelers Kit and Raw ore in the outer ring and Transmute.
You can also turn in raw ore via a repeatable quest for some gems, but you will not get the secondary stat gems (divinity, runic, etc.) and the crafting operation in general tends to be "more gems for ore used."

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**The next One on the Dropdown menu is Infuse Gems.**

That is by far the most complicated and most lucrative use of the shard.
This allows you to add stat gems to any gear piece.
The first thing to know: there are 10 Gems in total which are :
Gem of Intellectc
Gem of Conviction
Gem of Vitality
Gem of Strength
Gem of Dexterity
Gem of Elements
Gem of Divinity
Gem of Weaponry
Gem of Defence
Gem of Runic Power

Every gear piece can be repeatedly transmuted to infuse gems, but the success chance will start to drop off, the more you do it.
Every item has a maximum effective 'stat cap' for each stat, based on the items level. These caps have a small RNG to them, so they will vary on different gear pieces. As an example, a level 125 item can have between 220-230 of each stat, if you continue to put gems into it.

This operation requires the item you want to upgrade (placed in the center) and gems and essence on the outside.
Flawed shards are also upgrade gems, but what stat they add is random.
Each transmute function will consume 3 essence (greater essence has the highest chance) and 1 gem or shard.
There will also be an in-game gold cost, which is based on the value of the item and scales appropriately.

Dark Essence Conversion:

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

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

Ok so for example iam going to use this chest plate.

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This chest plate, has no stats and is the lowest rarity in game.

When I put greater essence in the outer ring and all the gems I have(9 in total)

It will put every single stat on it.
Each Gem will cost 3 Dark essence for one upgrade, basicly 9 gems = 27 Dark essence for one try

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You also increase the rarity of the Gear piece, you can even make it legendary.

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This is the result after 1-2 tries.

Now to know which gear piece to level, it can be tricky. You can hoard gems and essence and wait until you find something with a high base and upgrade it, or you can choose to upgrade as you go, but not try to max out every item. The base armor value and weapon damage of an item cannot be changed through gem infusing, so it is best to look for items that have a good base.

Gear upgrading is end-game progression and it will be time consuming to get the gold and essence and gems required to max out a full set.

**Appearance**

Some gear pieces may have the same icon but look different when you wear them.
The appearance of 1 item can be morphed onto another item with the philosopher's shard.
Youve got your helmet that you like the stats on, and you found a nice looking helmet but it has no stats and is way worse.

You put the helmet that you have want to KEEP in the middle of the shard, put the helmet that looks good in the outer ring with 3 lesser dark essence, hit the Appearance button underneath Infuse Gems and Transmute. Here is an example with a Sword.

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And tadaa I now have a good looking sword with the stats of the sword I want to use.

**Disenchant**
Any non-white equipment item can be placed in the shard and the disenchant operation will convert the item to essence.
Green items become green essence, blue items become blue essence, and so on.
It is common practice to sell high value items to the vendor to the gold and disenchant everything else for essence to be used in gear upgrading.