# Essence Sometimes you'll discover monsters frozen in essences: solidified, crystalline corruption. These dangerous monsters can be broken free. 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. For example, we use this one on some boots to ensure a movement speed mod. Rarely, essences will also drop that allow you to upgrade magics to rares, adding the guaranteed mod. This is incredibly powerful since it allows you to get a second deterministic mod in your crafting projects. 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. 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. Essences can appear starting from Act 2. ## Rise of the Abyssal Update Essence Rework * Essences now have 4 tiers: Lesser, Normal, Greater, and Perfect. * 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. * Lesser, Normal, and Greater Essences can upgrade a Magic item to Rare, adding a guaranteed modifier. * Perfect Essences and Essences obtained through Corruption remove a random modifier and augments a Rare item with a new guaranteed modifier. * Added 7 new types of Essences. * Essences of Torment have been renamed to Essences of Abrasion. * Essence of Hysteria now augments different guaranteed modifiers based on the type of item it is applied to. ## Mechanics Base tier essences will upgrade normal items to magic items, while Greater essences will upgrade magic items to rare. Using a [[Vaal Orb]] on an imprisoned monster will corrupt it and modify the essences it's holding in unpredictable ways. Outcomes include: - Add a random essence - Reroll all essences into the same type - Upgrade regular essences into their Greater versions - Transform Greater Essences into a Corrupted Essence