Epic Crafting

Select new, and old items can be upgraded into powerful Epic versions by collecting rare scrolls, seals, and shards. These Epic rewards can then be further customized with Augment Crystals, permanently adding new effects to your items.



Creating Epic Items
First you find a normal version of the item, then you collect three objects in epic dungeons to upgrade the item at the Altar of Epic Rituals in The Twelve by putting the item, scroll, shard and seal together in the Altar of Epic Rituals.

If, say, you want an Epic Antique Greataxe, you'll need to get an Antique Greataxe, kill epic monsters to get a Scroll of the Antique Greataxe (or buy one on the Auction House), and loot chests for a Seal of the Antique Greataxe and a Shard of the Antique Greataxe. Once you have all of those, you can upgrade your Antique Greataxe to the epic version of the item.

Permanent damage taken on the original item is repaired in this processsource. The Alchemical Eldritch Rituals done on the Stone of Change will disappear after making an item epic.

Scrolls drop from monsters, are not bound, and can be freely traded. When the scroll is found, it is randomly assigned to a party memberU8. Seals and Shards items become Bound to Account upon acquire. These items may only be traded via the chest loot window. Scrolls, Seals, and Shards stack and count as "Ingredients".

Depending on the quest, Seals will drop from one or all chests in a quest/raid, whereas, Shards are only from quest/raid end chests. For Example: All the chests in Epic Chamber of Raiyum will have a chance to drop Seals, but Epic Partycrashers will only drop seals in the final "Epic chest".

All epic items created are minimum level 20, and most are. Exceptions to the latter are epic items created in Smuggler's Rest, and Tier 1-2 items from Epic Challenges. These exceptions are all Bound to Account; they also don't require a Scroll, Seal, or Shard to craft. Epic non-weapon items from Update 13 quests do require a Scroll, Seal and Shard, but are Bound to Account; epic weapons from these same quests are. Likewise. Tier 3 Epic Challenge items are.



Augment Slots
Most items have only one augment slot. Two handed weapons often have two. Extremely powerful items might have none.

In general, red is for weapons, blue is for sets of armor, and yellow is for accessories. There are also green, purple (violet), and orange augment slots - these allow your choice of the two colors that make up that color. (A green augment slot would permit either a blue or yellow augment crystal.)

Epic Augmentation
Epic dungeons and raids award special Epic Tokens at the end of quest, that can be traded for Augment Crystals (or for a True Reincarnation token). You also need to have the properly colored Catalyst for the slot you want to modify. Catalysts and crystals come from Lahar in The Twelve. Tokens are. Crystals are. Catalysts do not bind.

Note: As of Update 17, old Augment system for epic items are replaced with new Augment Slot system. However, existing slotted items and crystals are unchanged. See Epic Crafting/Augment Crystal Table for old version costs and effects.

Clearing Augment Slots / Cleansing Ritual / Upgrading changed item
If you want to clear any Augment Slots that are filled, you can use the Cleansing Ritual. This is also the process you'll want to use if you have an old version that you want to upgrade to an updated version.
 * To do so, place 50 Siberys Dragonshard Fragments and the item you want to cleanse into the Altar of Epic Rituals.


 * Warning: This recipe essentially DESTROYS the item and creates a new blank copy. The new copy will be exactly the same as if you put a new base item, Epic Scroll, Seal and Shard in to do it.

History

 * Update 1 - first implementation of Epic items
 * Offered no mechanic of this kind. Original intention of the system was to force the players stick to what they've got in their Slots.
 * Update 1 Patch 1 - some of the Sand of Menechtarun epic items have their enchantment changed.
 * The Cleansing Ritual is now implemented in order to allow upgrading old versions. Required a Scroll of Dispel Magic as an ingredient.
 * when ?
 * Now for all items Cleansing Ritual can be performed. Ingredient required for the Ritual now changed to 3 Epic Dungeon Tokens.
 * when ?
 * Workaround for Exclusive items implemented.
 * Update 14/Menace of the Underdark
 * Notably none of epic items from this update involved this type of mechanic.
 * Update 16 Patch 1?
 * Ingredient required for the Ritual now changed to 50 Siberys Dragonshard Fragments. Prior to this developer Feather_of_Sun stated in a community video they are discontinuing this system.
 * Update 17
 * System overwhaul to come. See Augment Slot.