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Currency

Currency, essences, catalysts

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Currency, essences, catalysts, runes, omens — everything used to change items. Each entry covers what it does and where it applies.

Currency is crafting equipment

Currency here is money, but mostly it is the toolset for modifying items. Each type does one defined job: rerolling modifiers, removing one, or forcing a particular family.

So what matters is less which item is expensive and more what result each one produces. The same currency can be a waste at one stage of a craft and decisive at another.

Categories

Currency acts on modifiers directly. Essences attach a guaranteed modifier of a given family. Catalysts bias what appears on jewellery. Runes and soul cores slot in to add effects. Omens change how other currency behaves.

Waystones are endgame maps, and splinters are collected and traded up into something else.

For actual usage

Where each currency drops and how it is used in practice is covered in the crafting guides. This list is for quickly answering "what is this?".