Essence

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1-# Strongbox
1+# Essence
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3-You can also find strongboxes. These enigmatic chests guard piles of treasure, but are always a trap. Monsters lie in wait to attack you the moment that you open it, and the boxes often have mechanisms to unleash powerful spells or dangerous debuffs.
3+Sometimes you'll discover monsters frozen in essences: solidified, crystalline corruption. These dangerous monsters can be broken free.
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5-There are different types of strongboxes containing different items, and you can even use your currency items to craft them on the fly so you can optimize the contents.
5+If you defeat them, the essence they drop can be used to upgrade normal items to magic items with a guaranteed mod from a category.
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7-But be careful of opening one that you can't handle.
7+For example, we use this one on some boots to ensure a movement speed mod.
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9-## Unique Strongbox
9+Rarely, essences will also drop that allow you to upgrade magics to rares, adding the guaranteed mod.
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11-##### [[Ogham's Legacy]]
11+This is incredibly powerful since it allows you to get a second deterministic mod in your crafting projects.
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13-The Ogham's Legacy Strongbox has a corpse splayed out in-front of the rune-carved stone. Upon interacting with the stone you activate forbidden Ezomyte magic which revives the monster as a powerful Rare. The Strongbox comes with a modifier which determines how many times it will revive that Rare. Each time you defeat the monstrosity, the Strongbox revives it again adding an extra modifier to the monster. With each resurrection it becomes more difficult but also more rewarding.
13+Combining these with the currencies that are commonly found in Wraeclast for modifying items, and we can get a very nice pair of boots indeed.
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15-##### [[Ixchel's Torment]]
15+Essences are a type of currency item dropped by essence encounters. Essences will add a modifier to an item, guaranteeing a modifier of a specified type.
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17-This Strongbox is infused with thaumaturgy from ancient Vaal Technology. Ixchel's Torment has a powerful artefact inside and is guarded by Chaos itself. Defeating the monsters will grant you a Unique Item with a specific Corrupted outcome.
17+Essences can appear starting from Act 2.
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19+## Rise of the Abyssal Update
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21+Essence Rework
22+* Essences now have 4 tiers: Lesser, Normal, Greater, and Perfect.
23+* Instead of adding a modifier of a certain tag, Essences now add a specific modifier, depending on the Tier of Essence and type of item it is being applied to.
24+* Lesser, Normal, and Greater Essences can upgrade a Magic item to Rare, adding a guaranteed modifier.
25+* Perfect Essences and Essences obtained through Corruption remove a random modifier and augments a Rare item with a new guaranteed modifier.
26+* Added 7 new types of Essences.
27+* Essences of Torment have been renamed to Essences of Abrasion.
28+* Essence of Hysteria now augments different guaranteed modifiers based on the type of item it is applied to.
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30+## Mechanics
31+Base tier essences will upgrade normal items to magic items, while Greater essences will upgrade magic items to rare.
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33+Using a [[Vaal Orb]] on an imprisoned monster will corrupt it and modify the essences it's holding in unpredictable ways. Outcomes include:
34+- Add a random essence
35+- Reroll all essences into the same type
36+- Upgrade regular essences into their Greater versions
37+- Transform Greater Essences into a Corrupted Essence