Imbuing
Imbuing gives your equipment temporary bonuses. Bring the materials and the gold to an imbuing shrine, pick the imbuement and it lasts 20 hours of use.
- What imbuing does
- Imbuing shrines
- The three tiers
- Imbuement types
- Materials
- How the 20 hours run
- Clearing an imbuement
- Imbuement scrolls
What imbuing does
Many weapons, armours, helmets, shields, boots and some other items have imbuement slots (one to three; the item description tells you how many). Each slot can hold one imbuement: extra elemental damage, life or mana leech, critical hits, elemental protection, skill boosts, speed, capacity or paralysis deflection. An imbuement lasts 20 hours of use and then disappears.
- Imbuing is open to every account, free or Premium, and to every tier.
- Each item only accepts the imbuement types that fit it, and never the same type twice.
- Every imbuement succeeds: there is no success chance and no protection charm to buy.
Imbuing shrines
You imbue at an imbuing shrine. There is one in or right next to the temple of most big cities:
Thais, Carlin, Ab'Dendriel, Kazordoon, Venore, Edron, Darashia, Ankrahmun, Port Hope, Liberty Bay, Svargrond, Yalahar, Gray Beach, Rathleton, Roshamuul, Krailos and Issavi.
- Equip the item you want to imbue (the window lists the items you are wearing).
- Use the shrine: the Imbuing window opens.
- Click the item, choose a free slot, pick the imbuement and its tier, and press Imbue.
- The window shows the materials you have, the gold it costs and how long each active imbuement has left.
RecommendedMaterials are taken from your backpack first and then from your supply stash; gold is taken from your backpack and then from your bank account.
The three tiers
| Tier | Gold | Materials | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 5,000 | 1 kind | 20 hours |
| Intricate | 30,000 | 2 kinds | 20 hours |
| Powerful | 200,000 | 3 kinds | 20 hours |
ImportantPowerful imbuements need no quest here: they are available from the start.
Imbuement types
Values are Basic / Intricate / Powerful.
| Imbuement | Type | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Scorch | Elemental damage (fire) | 10% / 25% / 50% of physical damage turned into fire |
| Venom | Elemental damage (earth) | 10% / 25% / 50% of physical damage turned into earth |
| Frost | Elemental damage (ice) | 10% / 25% / 50% of physical damage turned into ice |
| Electrify | Elemental damage (energy) | 10% / 25% / 50% of physical damage turned into energy |
| Reap | Elemental damage (death) | 10% / 25% / 50% of physical damage turned into death |
| Vampirism | Life leech | 5% / 10% / 25% of your damage returned as health |
| Void | Mana leech | 3% / 5% / 8% of your damage returned as mana |
| Strike | Critical hit | 10% critical chance; +15% / +25% / +50% critical damage |
| Lich Shroud | Protection (death) | -2% / -5% / -10% death damage taken |
| Snake Skin | Protection (earth) | -3% / -8% / -15% earth damage taken |
| Dragon Hide | Protection (fire) | -3% / -8% / -15% fire damage taken |
| Quara Scale | Protection (ice) | -3% / -8% / -15% ice damage taken |
| Cloud Fabric | Protection (energy) | -3% / -8% / -15% energy damage taken |
| Demon Presence | Protection (holy) | -3% / -8% / -15% holy damage taken |
| Chop / Slash / Bash | Axe / sword / club fighting | +1 / +2 / +4 skill |
| Precision | Distance fighting | +1 / +2 / +4 skill |
| Blockade | Shielding | +1 / +2 / +4 skill |
| Epiphany | Magic level | +1 / +2 / +4 magic level |
| Punch | Fist fighting | +1 / +2 / +4 skill |
| Swiftness | Speed | +10 / +15 / +30 speed |
| Featherweight | Capacity | +3% / +8% / +15% capacity |
| Vibrancy | Paralysis deflection | 15% / 25% / 50% chance to remove paralysis; always deflects repeated paralysis in PvP |
Materials
Each tier needs the materials of the tiers below it plus its own: a Powerful imbuement uses all three columns.
| Imbuement | Basic | + Intricate | + Powerful |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scorch | 25 fiery heart | 5 green dragon scale | 5 demon horn |
| Venom | 25 swamp grass | 20 poisonous slime | 2 slime heart |
| Frost | 25 frosty heart | 10 seacrest hair | 5 polar bear paw |
| Electrify | 25 rorc feather | 5 peacock feather fan | 1 energy vein |
| Reap | 25 pile of grave earth | 20 demonic skeletal hand | 5 petrified scream |
| Vampirism | 25 vampire teeth | 15 bloody pincers | 5 piece of dead brain |
| Void | 25 rope belt | 25 silencer claws | 5 some grimeleech wings |
| Strike | 20 protective charm | 25 sabretooth | 5 vexclaw talon |
| Lich Shroud | 25 flask of embalming fluid | 20 gloom wolf fur | 5 mystical hourglass |
| Snake Skin | 25 piece of swampling wood | 20 snake skin | 10 brimstone fangs |
| Dragon Hide | 20 green dragon leather | 10 blazing bone | 5 draken sulphur |
| Quara Scale | 25 winter wolf fur | 15 thick fur | 10 deepling warts |
| Cloud Fabric | 20 wyvern talisman | 15 crawler head plating | 10 wyrm scale |
| Demon Presence | 25 cultish robe | 25 cultish mask | 20 hellspawn tail |
| Chop | 20 orc tooth | 25 battle stone | 20 moohtant horn |
| Slash | 25 lion's mane | 25 mooh'tah shell | 5 war crystal |
| Bash | 20 cyclops toe | 15 ogre nose ring | 10 warmaster's wristguards |
| Precision | 25 elven scouting glass | 20 elven hoof | 10 metal spike |
| Blockade | 20 piece of scarab shell | 25 brimstone shell | 25 frazzle skin |
| Epiphany | 25 elvish talisman | 15 broken shamanic staff | 15 strand of medusa hair |
| Swiftness | 15 damselfly wing | 25 compass | 20 waspoid wing |
| Featherweight | 20 fairy wings | 10 little bowl of myrrh | 5 goosebump leather |
| Vibrancy | 20 wereboar hooves | 15 crystallized anger | 5 quill |
ImportantPunch is the exception: Basic uses 20 ghostly tissue, while Intricate uses 25 tarantula egg and 20 mantassin tail, and Powerful adds 15 gold-brocaded cloth.
How the 20 hours run
- Combat imbuements (elemental damage, leech, critical hit, protections and skill boosts) only count down while you wear the item, are in combat and are outside a protection zone.
- Swiftness, Featherweight and Vibrancy count down whenever you wear the item, in or out of combat.
- An item in your backpack or depot never loses imbuement time.
- When the time runs out the imbuement disappears and the slot is free again.
Clearing an imbuement
- In the Imbuing window, press Clear on an occupied slot: it costs 15,000 gold and the imbuement is lost.
- An etcher removes every imbuement of an item at once: use it on the item. It is used up.
Imbuement scrolls
With a blank imbuement scroll you can prepare an imbuement in advance and apply it later, anywhere.
- Buy blank scrolls (25,000 gold) and etchers (30,000 gold) from Albinius, in the Halls of Hope north of Thais, next to an imbuing shrine.
- At a shrine, press Imbuement scroll, choose the imbuement and press Write scroll: you pay the same gold and materials as a normal imbuement and get the written scroll.
- Use the written scroll on an item: the imbuement goes into its first free slot with the full 20 hours.
- Only Intricate and Powerful imbuements can be written, and Vibrancy has no scroll.
RecommendedItems with imbuements cannot be used in the Exaltation Forge: clear them first.