Dreamforge

Suppressed Power: This psionic item is powerful, but you sense that it has not unlocked all of its secrets to you at this time.

Overview
The Dreamforge is a crafting station located at the end of The Dreaming Dark quest. Characters must complete that quest each time they wish to access this station. It allows the upgrade of certain items with "suppressed power", including Ioun Stones, Dreamspitter, and certain named items from the quest The Mindsunder.


 * Introduced in Update 2
 * Upgrades can be made on this attribute at the Dreamforge crafting device, in The Dreaming Dark quest
 * Gather essence, shards and discs from the The Dreaming Dark quest chain.
 * Place essence, shards and discs and the named item in the Dreamforge to upgrade the named item to a more powerful form.
 * You can preview the available upgrades by visiting Dreamforge and clicking the list interface.


 * Used to combinations essences shards, purchase Crystal Disc of Dreams.
 * Upgrade Ioun Stones, items obtain from The Mindsunder quest, and Dreamspitter from The Reaver's Fate raid.


 * Location: Final room in The Dreaming Dark quest after The Devourer of Dreams has been defeated.
 * Forcefields remain in place, preventing players from switching to alt characters to use the Dreamforge.

Essence, shards and discs
Essence, shards and discs are (though can be traded in chest). They are treated as ingredients, and go into your Ingredient Bag.


 * 6 each of 4 Essences, acquired from other quests in the The Dreaming Dark adventure pack Or
 * 6 Crystal Shards of Dreams from the end reward of The Dreaming Dark quest Or
 * 1 Crystal Disc of Dreams from the end reward of The Dreaming Dark quest Or
 * Crystal Disc of Dreams can be purchase for 50 astral shards at the Dreamforge.

Essences locations

 * All Essences, the Crystal Shard of Dreams, and the Crystal Disc of Dreams are Bound to Account.
 * Essences can be found in the end chests of all four quests. One essence drops per completion except on casual (where there's a chance that none will drop) until the chests begin to become ransacked. The Eye of the Titan chest never becomes ransacked of its essence.

Combinations
The following combinations are possible at the Dreamforged.

Suppressed Power upgrades

 * Upgraded Items become
 * Existing Stone of Change rituals are not removed by unlocking the Suppressed Power (at least for a Dreamspitter with the Force Critical Ritual).

Ioun Stone upgrades

 * Upgraded Ioun Stones become ML:5 and.
 * Note: the description in the Dreamforge window says the minimum level will be raised to a level much higher than 5. This is incorrect.

Old Pale Lavender Ioun Stones without the listed "Suppressed Power" effect could still be upgraded in January 2012 (others, such as the Incandescent Blue Ioun Stone cannot be upgraded if they do not have the "Suppressed Power" effect; not sure if old PLIS can be upgraded currently). Ioun Stones are more common now, as 1 of the 10 types will always appear in the end rewards list for The Dreaming Dark (quest) every 3 completions, and have a chance to appear on every completion.

Ioun Stone in the Forgotten Realms Wiki :