The Guided team has already spent several hours in the upcoming survival RPG Nightingale and today we are revealing everything about the different essences, where to find them, and what you need them for.
What is Essence in Nightingale (TLDR):
You need essences to improve your weapons and to buy new crafting recipes and resources.
There are four different types of essence: Essence Dust and Tier 1 to Tier 3 essences.
You get essence from many different activities, like defeating monsters or in dungeons.
You can also buy essence from essence traders.
What do You Need Essence for in Nightingale?
Essences in Nightingale are the key to almost everything that makes you stronger and keeps you alive. You repair armor, improve weapons, tools, and armor pieces, and you can exchange the colorful stuff for raw materials & crafting recipes.
Use: Can be exchanged for Tier-2 recipes at essence traders. Used for item upgrades to "Rare" level at the "Refined Workbench."
Tier-3 Essence
Location:Only found in Ascended Realms, after you've discovered "The Watch."
Acquisition: Defeat very strong enemies, complete tasks and quests.
Use: Can be exchanged for Tier-3 crafting recipes at essence traders. Can be used at the "Excellent Upgrade Workbench" for Tier-3 upgrades & Legendary upgrades.
Best and Fast Essence Farm in Nightingale
For one, active pioneers are rewarded for their exploration of the open world. Not only does combat or resource mining reward essence, but completed tasks also offer essences.
The most essence can be found in Nightingale through the following activities:
Vaults & Major-Vaults: After defeating a boss in dungeons, you are rewarded with a hefty essence loot.
Puzzles: Especially in Tier-2 and Tier-3 Realms, you should complete the dungeons and puzzle passages in the open world. You can adjust the difficulty level of encounters & puzzles! On Extreme difficulty, you can receive up to 30x essence.
Relic Transmutator & Cards: With the help of relic transmutators, you can convert special items into essences. Cards are modifiers for the game that, among other things, increase drop chances or improve farming rates.
Essence traders: You can exchange essences for recipes at essence traders.
How to Upgrade Gear & Weapons with Essence?
To improve your equipment in Nightingale, you need essence from Tier 1 to Tier 3 as well as the corresponding workbenches. There are various types of workbenches for different equipment areas, one for weapons and tools, one for clothing and armor, and so on. At the beginning of the game, you only have access to one workbench, but later you get recipes for better ones. Overall, the workbenches & upgrade options in Nightingale are divided as follows:
Upgrade Bench: Allows you to upgrade equipment to Tier 1 "Uncommon".
Refined Upgrade Bench: Allows you to perform upgrades to Tier 2 "Rare".
Excellent Upgrade Bench: Grants you equipment upgrades to Tier 3 and Legendary.
Cost of upgrades: No matter which level/tier you want to upgrade your equipment item to in Nightingale, an upgrade always costs 40x essence.
We've quickly calculated it for you:
A full set of armor, consisting of 8x parts, costs you exactly 280x essence. Starting from Gray, upgrading to Tier 3 thus costs you 840x essence.
By the way: Weapons and tools also cost you 40x essence per upgrade to a higher tier.
These were all the important details you need to know about all essences in Nightingale. If you have any more questions or comments, feel free to leave a comment or contact the author of the article directly via Community-Discord-Server.
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