The essences are one of the two principal
components of the Enchantment skill. It's by harvesting and manipulating
that the player can prepare future enchantments.
In this guide, we will focus on how to use the Altar to split one essence
into two lesser essences of equivalent value.
Long story short, essences have an hidden score used internally to
determine their rank and what can be done with them. And when
that score is high enough, the essence can be splitted into
two less powerful essences.
For instance, let's put one
Martial Essence on the Altar :
By using the Enchantment skill when only that essence is on the
altar, we'll get a confirmation message explaining that two
new essences were created :
And yep, the previous essence was effectively replaced by two
Lesser Martial Essences fresh from
the oven :
Note that the four essences ranks, indicated by the prefixes, do not
always have an internal score twice as big as the rank below.
For instance, if you're splitting a rank 4 potent essence,
you won't get two rank 3 greater essences, but two rank 2
normal essences :
