Elixir System Guide

Introduction

Elixirs are a system that increases your character's power with new special set effects alongside powerful general damage increase options. While their outcome is based on random chance, you have the ability to influence this in the refining process. Find out how and why you should be invested in this system!

Once you have memorized the basics described below, you can test your knowledge by using the Elixir Simulator.

How to acquire them?

Voldis and the Abyssal Dungeon: Ivory Tower introduces new materials related to the Elixir System:

• Splendid Elixir of Wisdom
• Splendid Energy of Wisdom
• Splendid Essence of Wisdom
• Stabilized Ductility Catalysts

Ways of obtaining the Elixirs and Materials include:

• Clearing the Voldis Abyssal Dungeon: Ivory Tower.
• 2 Elixirs in Gate 3 of Ivory Tower's extra bid window.
• Crafting process utilizing Splendid Energy of Wisdom obtained from Ivory Tower.
• 20 Weekly crafted Elixirs using Splendid Essence of Wisdom obtained from dismantling unsuccessfully refined Elixirs or the Auction House.
• 50 Stabilized Ductility Catalysts can be purchased from the Wandering Merchant for 2000 Silver each. A batch of x30 can be crafted at the Elixir vendor for the price of one Chaos Stone and 420 gold.

These Elixirs and their components come in two different rarities. These are based on the difficulty of the dungeon you complete: Epic for Normal mode and Legendary for Hard Mode.

Elixir Cutting Interface

Obtain an unrefined Elixir and find the [Transmute Elixir] building marked with a flask icon in all major cities to open the Elixir crafting menu. You will be greeted by the 3 Sages seen in the image above. This is the initial setup process of your Elixir, here you select the Effects of your choice to begin the refining process. Make sure to check out the Elixir Set and Effect section to know which options are best for your character.

1. This is the amount of Stabilized Ductility Catalysts you own and how many are needed per tap.

2. The gold cost per tap and how much gold you currently own is displayed here.

3. These are Elixir effects that the 3 sages offer to you. Only one out of the three effects can be chosen per turn. This process will fill up the right side (4) with the effects of your choice. When completed, the refining process will begin.

4. This is where your 5 Sage effect choices are shown.

5. This button lets you re-roll the choices given by the Sages. You start with 2 charges, additional ones can be obtained through special options granted by the Sages.

6. You may enable/disable sage animations during your elixir cutting with this button.

Guaranteed Selectable Refinement Effect

As of a recent update, players are able to choose the option they want as their final effect (5th slot). Based on your first given options your final selection may vary. This leads to two scenarios on how you would ideally approach this:

• If you find your set or special effect in your first 4 slots 🠒 proceed with picking a common damage option: (ATK Power, STR/DEX/INT or Weapon Power as the 5th option).
• If you find ATK Power, STR/DEX/INT or Weapon Power 🠒 choose either of the special effects: (Set, Crit DMG, Additional DMG, Boss DMG e,g.) that you want to min-max, otherwise take another common damage option for your chest.

Sage Options and Functionality

After you've selected your 5 effects is when the refining process begins. There are a total of 14 transmuting steps for Legendary Elixirs. All 3 sages will offer you options that can modify the success chance of your effects positively, negatively, or let you gamble for a high risk outcome. Above each option are Blue (Order) and Purple (Chaos) node stacks that fill up based on which Sage you've chosen.

• Clicking the transmute button always adds 1 node at random to one of your effects after the Sages effect of choice has been applied.
• At 3 steps remaining the Sages will offer you options to seal off effects.
  • If you sealed an option prior to step 3 the sealing process will start 1 turn later.
  • This will continue until only 2 effects remain and your Elixir is complete.
• Blue node stacks increase by 1 when chosen and reset when not.
• Purple node stacks increase by 1 when not chosen and reset when chosen.

Reaching 3 Blue nodes or 6 Purple will grant you an empowered option from that specific Sage.

• Empowered Blue options are mostly positive choices that don't negatively impact your elixir.
• Empowered Purple options offer high risk and high reward choices that can negatively impact the outcome of your elixir. Typically, not worth pursuing unless you've had bad luck.

Elixir Effect Nodes

During the refining process percentages and nodes within your effects will be constantly changing based on your choices. An effect requires 10 nodes for it to be filled to its max state. Reaching specific checkpoints unlocks higher levels for your effect, granting higher bonuses from it. Points required for reaching level milestones:

Level 1 - 3 Points
Level 2 - 6 Points
Level 3 - 8 Points
Level 4 - 9 Points
Level 5 - 10 Points

1. The % chance on the left side of your effect indicates the probability of a transmuted point to land in this slot. This can be modified with the options Sages grant you. By default, the chance is 20% across all options. Modifying one will adjust other options accordingly, for a total of 100%.

2. The % chance on the right side indicates the probability of a transmuted node to have a great success. If successful, the node receives 2 points instead of 1. This chance is independent for each effect and can be increased with options granted by the Sages. Base value is 10%.

3. Filled nodes indicate how many points you've unlocked for a specific effect. The number within the nodes indicates the unlocked effect level. Similar to engravings, if the specific checkpoint for a level is not reached, all the extra nodes don't provide any bonus.

Elixir Sets and Effects

There are a total of 6 effect types for Elixirs to choose from: Common, Helm (set), Gloves (set), Shoulder, Chestpiece and Pants. Common effects can be applied to all armor types, while armor specific effects like Helm, Shoulder, Chestpiece, Pants and Gloves will only function if applied to their corresponding armor slot. These effects will not grant any points towards your Elixir set bonus if applied to the wrong slot, so be careful!

Important: Set effects will only activate if both the Gloves and the Helm slot have the same set applied to them. Having different sets applied to each of the slots will not activate either of them!

• You must obtain a combined total of 35 points across your armors to unlock level 1 set bonus and 40 points for level 2.
  • This means each armor slot must have either 7 or 8 points between both effects on avarage for set level 1 or 2.
• All minor effects will still grant their bonuses regardless of the total amount achieved.

Best Effects Per Slot

Transmuting Strategies

When starting out on your Elixirs, you should set yourself a few goals. You shouldn't aim for the perfect elixir to start out with. Take whatever you can get and build upon it slowly to maximize power early. That means:

1. Reaching Set Level 1 (35 points) and Set Level 2 (40 points) as soon as possible.
   • Don't be afraid to utilize bad Elixir effects as long as they provide a large amount of points towards your set level.
   • Be satisfied with your 2nd best set option for the time being if it's given to you. (Replace it later)
   • Finish cutting all of your elixirs before you decide where to place them on your gear, as you might cut a better one at a later point letting you maximize more armor slots and points without compromising your options.
2. Once you've achieved set level 2 start working on armor specific damage/support options and replace your old pieces in the process.
3. After this, try to min/max armors with 2 ideal options for your build. While looking out for your best set option if you haven't found it yet. (Lengthy process)

Sage Option related strategies

Sages can grant you various powerful gamble options that might seem like a great idea, but generaly will hurt you most of the times if chosen too many times or too late in the process.

• Options that make you "skip a turn" but provide a great bonus are amazing at the start of the Elixir (step 14-12), but worse later on. You should avoid taking multiple of these in 1 refining attempt as the transmuting attempts are very precious.
• Prioritize options that have positive outcomes towards adding extra points to your effects as these hold the most value, even if it compromises getting an empowered option.
• Around step 7-8 look at your obtained points and decide the 2 effects you want to settle on (choose the ones with most points).
• From step 7-6 onwards prioritize mostly Blue (Order) stacks to obtain the empowered option so you can make the sealing process easier letting you choose an effect to lock. Don't pick the Blue option if its bad though.
  • Simultaneously you can couple this with maxing out a Purple (Chaos) option on your final transmute attempt for wanted sealing options.
• If your elixir has gone south and it cannot be made useful, try to max out the Purple (Chaos) options to look for an elixir reset chance, letting you start over.
  • Additioanly these Purple (Chaos) stacks might grant you high rng bonus point options that could save your elixir with a bit of luck.
• Save your re-roll options for the Sealing Process (turns remaining: 3), this way you can make sure to seal the option you want.

How to apply an Elixir?

Completed Elixirs can be imbued to your gear through the [Imbue or Craft Elixir] NPC found in all major cities marked with a chestpiece & flask icon on the map.

• Select your completed Elixir, choose the correct armor slot you want to apply it to and save it in one of the 3 storage slots.
• Elixirs that have been placed within armors cannot be removed or transfered to a different piece.
• You can freely choose between saved effects within the storage without any penalties.
• You can overwrite an effect slot if all 3 options are outdated/occupied.

• Elixirs that contain special effects for armor slots such as Helm & Gloves (set), Shoulders, Chestpiece or Pants must be matched with the corresponding armor slot for them to activate their effect.
• If e.g. a Helm effect is placed within the Glove slot, the obtained level will not provide any bonus to your character.

Summary

• Clear Voldis Abyssal Dungeon: Ivory Tower to obtain Splendid Elixir of Wisdom and Splendid Energy of Wisdom to craft more of them.
• Refined Elixirs can be dismantled into Splendid Essence of Wisdom that can be sold on the Auction House or used to craft more Elixirs.
• When Refining your Elixir choose 5 armor effects that benefit your build.
• Finish cutting your Elixir while focusing points into your two best options.
• Place your finished Elixir in an appropriate armor slot that doesnt conflict with your effect choices.
• To activate set effects they must match! And must be placed in the Head and Glove slots.
• Reach 35 or 40 total Elixir points to unlock your set effect bonus at level 1 or 2.

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