A crash course to enchanting for the Apprentice Herian Adventurer and a quick reference for the Master Adventurer. This guide focuses on the bonuses provided by components and not on random enchantments.
This is the first and final version of this guide.
The Basics
When and Where Can I Enchant?
The Royal City of Aventurine, south of the main square. just northeast of the lake. On the minimap, he appears as an axe. He’s sharing a home with a trader, who is depicted as a pile of coins on the minimap.
You have unlimited access to the enchanter after you’re able to leave Hammer Island (the starting area).
What Can I Enchant?
You can enchant anything that you can equip:
- Mainhand Weapons – more damage and penetration
- Head armor – Spell bonuses and new skills
- Chest armor – Physical Defense
- Hands armor – Attack bonuses
- Feet armor – Movement bonuses
- Accessories – Resistance
- Offhand Weapons – technically enchantable, but not with components. More below
Much of the equipment you find will already be enchanted (uncommon, rare, epic, and unique equipment). You’ll only be able to apply enchantments to common (white) and uncommon equipment (green gear).
How Do I Enchant?
Enchanting requires 3 or 4 things:
- Equipment – Straight forward, this is the whole reason we’re here. You’ll find it on enemies, in shops, or you’ll craft it yourself with help from the various tradespeople of Aventurine.
- Gold – Straight forward as well; you’ll find this a lot more commonly than equipment dropped from enemies, but the bulk with be from quests and commerce.
- Elven Runes – Elven Runes come in two forms: Lesser and Greater. Most commonly, these are found by disenchanting equipment. Lesser Runes from uncommon (green) equipment and Greater Elvn Runes from rare (blue) equipment. Both types of runes are also occasionally found as enemy drops and in secret rooms. Disenchanting equipment destroys the equipment in the process.You’ll need Lesser Runes to enchant common (white) equipment to craft uncommon equipment, and you’ll need Greater Runes to enchant uncommon equipment to craft rare equipment.
- Components (optional) – There are many different kinds of enchanting components; most are enemy drops. These can be used to control the outcome of enchanting so you can customize you equipment for a specific goal (for example, to improve armor or add health regen).
Things to Keep in Mind
This guide focuses on the enchantments you can control, but that doesn’t mean that’s all there are. You’ll find many uncommon and rare items with enchantments that you cannot choose to apply.
For Example:
- Increased Damage to Humans/Beasts/Undead/etc.
- Increased Attack/SpellSpeed
- Increased Attack Crit Chance/Damage
When you’re in the Enchantment interface, don’t select a component. As long as you have the gold and runes, you can apply a RANDOM enchantment to your item.
If you accidentally select a component and want to remove it without closing and reopening the interface, right-click the component (or equipment for that matter) to remove it from the slot.
Off Hand Equipment (Shields, Orbs, Throwing Knives, Bows, and Tomes) can be enchanted but not with components. This means that all Off Hand Equipment enchants are random.
Personally, I feel the offhand equipment would’ve been a better choice, mechanically, to receive bonuses to skills instead of head equipment.
Enchantments by Equipment Slot
Mainhand Weapon
Enchanted with additional damage and come with the associated armor penetration
- Boar Tusk: + Physical Damage; + Armor Penetration
- Maggot Gland: + Poison Damage; + Poison Resistance Penetration
- Ectoplasm: + Ice Damage; + Ice Resistance Penetration
- Shambler Claw: + Lightning Damage; + Lightning Resistance Penetration
- Archon Essence: + Fire Damage; + Fire Resistance Penetration
Head Equipment
Enchanted with bonuses to Spells or new skills, some defensive bonuses.
- Iron Ore: + Armor; Blocks 5 Physical damage.
- Hardened Nails: Return 10 Physical damage to the attacker when taking damage
- Maggot Gland:Skill: Acid Spit
- Shoot 5 acid projectiles in a ~30 degree arc straight ahead, dealing 25 poison damage
- Wasp Stinger: Casting a Spell fires a stinger projectile at a random enemy
- Spider Silk: Skill: Spew Web
- Shoot 3 web projectiles in a line straight ahead, inflicting Slow on impact. Long range.
- Bone Meal: Scoring a kill has a 25% chance of summoning a crawler
- Troll Skin: 50% increased Attack damage on Low Health
- Archon Essence: Skill: Essence Nova
- Release a burst of 9 projectiles that spiral out from you, dealing 80 Fire and Pure damage.
- Thunderbird Feather: Skill: Call Lightning
- Call a single bolt of lighting that strikes a point at mid-long range after a short delay.
- Black Heart: 20% increased damage with Spells; 5% increased damage taken
Chest Equipment
Enchanted with primarily defensive bonuses.
- Iron Ore: + Armor; Blocks 5 Physical damage.
- Hardened Nails: Return 10 Physical damage to the attacker when taking damage
- Boar Tusk: 25% Reduce damage on Low Health
- Troll Skin: 200% increased Health Regen on Low Health
- Black Heart + 15% Evasion; 5% increased damage taken
Hands Equipment
Enchanted with bonuses to Attack with some defensive options
- Iron Ore: + Armor; Blocks 5 Physical damage.
- Hardened Nails: Return 10 Physical damage to the attacker when taking damage
- Wolf Liver: 1% Attack Stamina Leech
- Wasp Stinger: Attacking has a 20% chance to fire a stinger at a random enemy
- Bone Meal: 2.5% Attack Life Leech
- Ectoplasm: 1% Attack Mana Leech
- Shambler Claw: Attacks have a 10% chance to strike a different nearby enemy with a bolt of lightning dealing 25 lightning damage
- Black Heart: 20%increased Attack damage; 5% increased damage taken
Feet Equipment
Enchanted with bonuses to Movement or defense
- Iron Ore: + Armor; Blocks 5 Physical damage.
- Hardened Nails: Return 10 Physical damage to the attacker when taking damage
- Wolf Liver: + Stamina Regen; +15% Movement Speed when on Full Health
- Spider Silk: + Movement Speed; Slow effects reduced by 25%
Accessories
These are accessory type-specific, but generally they’re enchanted with bonuses to Resistance or Health Regen
Rings:
- Topaz – Fire Resistance
- Aquamarine – Ice Resistance
- Amethyst – Lightning Resistance
- Peridot – Poison Resistance
Belts:
- Topaz – Fire Resistance
- Aquamarine – Ice Resistance
- Amethyst – Lightning Resistance
- Peridot – Poison Resistance
- Troll Skin – Health Regen
Cloaks:
- Troll Skin – Health Regen
Amulets:
- Topaz – Fire Resistance
- Aquamarine – Ice Resistance
- Amethyst – Lightning Resistance
- Peridot – Poison Resistance
Talismans:
- Thunderbird Feather – Spell Crit Chance; Spell Crit Damage
Note: Charms, medals, and talismans are not considered amulets, even though these words are all synonymous in English.
Enchantments by Component
Chipped Topaz
Eligible Equipment: Rings, Belts, Amulets
Enchantment: + 5-10 Fire Resistance; +10% Fire Resistance
Buy: The trader next to the enchanter and a few other shops
Find: Enemy casters, occasionally from broken barrels, crates and such
Prefix: Topax – Suffix: of Fire Resistance
Chipped Aquamarine
Eligible Equipment: Rings, Belts, Amulets
Enchantment: + 5-10 Ice Resistance; +10% Ice Resistance
Buy: The trader next to the enchanter and a few other shops
Find: Enemy casters, occasionally from broken barrels, crates and such
Prefix: Aquamarine – Suffix: of Ice Resistance
Chipped Amethyst
Eligible Equipment: Rings, Belts, Amulets
Enchantment: + 5-10 Lightning Resistance; +10% Lightning Resistance
Buy: The trader next to the enchanter and a few other shops
Find: Enemy casters, occasionally from broken barrels, crates and such
Prefix: Amethyst – Suffix: of Lightning Resistance
Chipped Peridot
Eligible Equipment: Rings, Belts, Amulets
Enchantment: + 5-10 Poison Resistance; +10% Poison Resistance
Buy: The trader next to the enchanter and a few other shops
Find: Enemy casters, occasionally from broken barrels, crates and such
Prefix: Peridot – Suffix: of Poison Resistance
Iron Ore
Eligible Equipment: Head, Chest, Hands, and Feet Equipment
Enchantment: + 5-10 Armor; Blocks 5 Physical damage
Buy: Trader just north of Castle Superbia, miscellaneous traders
Find: Commonly in broken barrels, crates, and such
Prefix: Reinforced – Suffix: of Iron
Hardened Nails
Eligible Equipment: Head, Chest, Hands, and Feet Equipment
Enchantment: Return 10 Physical damage to the attacker when taking damage
Buy: North Aventurine, trader just north of Castle Superbia, various traders
Find: Commonly in broken barrels, crates, and such
Prefix: Spiked – Suffix: of Nails
Wolf Liver
Hands Equipment: 1% Attack Stamina Leech
Feet Equipment: + ~0.5-0.6 Stamina Regen; +15% Movement Speed at Full Health
Buy: Miscellaneous traders
Find: Any variety of wolf
Prefix: Feral – Suffix: of the Wolf
Boar Tusk
Chest Equipment: 25% reduced damage on Low Health
Main-hand Weapon: + Physical Damage; + Armor Penetration
Buy: uncommonly with miscellaneous traders
Find: West Fallowfields, drops from boars, seems like only the larger varieties
Prefix: Ferocious – Suffix: of the Boar
Maggot Gland
Head Equipment: Skill: Acid Spit – Spits gobs of acid dealing 25 poison damage. 3s cooldown.
Main Hand Weapon: + Poison Damage; + Poison Resistance Penetration
Find: Sewers, drops from the maggot larvae, plentiful
Prefix: Virulent – Suffix: of the Maggot
Wasp Stinger
Head Equipment: Casting a Spell fires a stinger at a random enemy
Hands Equipment: Attacks have a 20% chance to fire a stinger at a random enemy
Find: Pyx Plataeu, far North Fallowfield, Blackbarrow – drops from wasp varieties
Prefix: Stinging – Suffix: of the Wasp
Spider Silk
Head Equipment: Skill: Sprew Web – Spews spider web that inflects Slow on impact. 2s cooldown
Feet Equipment: + Movement Speed; Slow effects reduced by 25%
Find: Spider Cave and Deep Spider Cave from the Spider Larvae, seems uncommon
Prefix: Webbing – Suffix: of the Spider
Bone Meal
Head Equipment: Scoring a kill has a 25% chance of summoning a crawler
Hands Equipment: 2.5% Attack Life Leech
Find: Wishless Resting Place, anywhere you’ll defeat Skeletons
Prefix: Tomb – Suffix: of the Grave
Ectoplasm
Hands Equipment: 1% Attack Mana Leech
Main Hand Weapon: + Ice Damage; + Ice Resistance Penetration
Find: Wishless Resting Place, uncommon drop from Spectres
Prefix: Ghastly – Suffix: of the Spectre
Troll Skin
Head Equipment: 50% increased Attack damage on Low Health
Chest Equipment: 200% increased Health Regen on Low Health
Cloak or Belt: + ~1.5-1.9 Health Regen
Find: Blackbarrow Hollow, anywhere
Prefix: Raging – Suffix: of the Troll
Shambler Claw
Hands Equipment: Attacks have a 10% chance to strike a different nearby enemy with a bolt of lightning dealing 25 lightning damage
Main Hand Weapon: + Lightning damage; + Lightning Resistance Penetration
Find: Eastern portion of Blackbarrow Hollow III
Prefix: Crackling – Suffix: of the Shambler
Archon Essence
Head Equipment: Skill: Essence Nova – Discharges several swirling projectiles dealing 80 Fire and Pure damage. 4s Cooldown
Main Hand Weapon: + Fire Damage; + Fire Resistance Penetration
Find: Blackbarrow, North of Slid, Obsidian Tower; drops from Archon enemies
Prefix: Essence – Suffix: of the Archons
Thunderbird Feather
Head Equipment: Skill: Call Lightning – Summons a series of lightning strikes in a forward direction dealing 100 Lightning damage. 8s cooldown
Talismans: + Spell Crit Chance; + Spell Crit Damage
Buy: Merchant in Slid
Find: ???
Prefix: Tempest – Suffix: of the Thunderbird
Black Heart
Head Equipment: 20% increased damage with Spells
Chest Equipment: + 15% Evasion
Hands Equipment: 20% increased damage with Attacks
Feet Equipment: + 20% Movement Speed
Find: obelisks throughout Herian. All enchants come with 5% increased damage taken
Prefix: Blackheart – Suffix: of Corruption
