What Are the Requirements for Legendary Items?
Crafting or obtaining Legendary items in a game often marks a significant milestone for players. These items are typically among the most powerful and sought-after pieces of gear, providing substantial benefits and often altering a character’s playstyle. However, acquiring them is rarely straightforward and often requires a significant investment of time, effort, and resources. The requirements for legendary items vary significantly depending on the game. This article will focus on the requirements as detailed in the source material, specifically relating to crafting and upgrading Legendary items in a particular context, which appears to be based on the systems found in World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands and Dragonflight expansions.
Core Requirements for Crafting a Base Legendary
At their core, crafting a basic Legendary item, before upgrades, involves a few key elements:
- A Base Item: This is the foundational component, usually a specific piece of armor or a weapon slot item that will become the Legendary. The base item determines the item slot and is essential for crafting the Legendary.
- A Legendary Power: This is what defines the unique effect of your legendary item. The power you choose will drastically alter how the gear functions. This power often comes from a recipe that is obtained in some manner within the game world.
- Two Missives: These dictate the secondary stats of the crafted Legendary, like Critical Strike, Haste, Mastery, and Versatility. Missives allow you to customize your legendary to best fit your needs and your chosen build.
- Soul Ash: A currency used in creating and upgrading Legendaries. These are earned through various methods, including running Torghast in the specified context.
- Soul Cinders: Another currency used in creating and upgrading Legendaries, often earned from higher level Torghast runs and other later game activities.
- Cosmic Flux: A currency introduced in later patches, used to upgrade Legendaries to their final rank.
Upgrading to the Highest Rank: The 291 Legendary
Once you’ve created a base Legendary, you can upgrade it to higher item levels. The highest rank, iLevel 291 is where your legendary will achieve its peak potential. Upgrading to 291 (Rank 7) involves:
- A Rank 7 Base Item: You need a new base item at this higher item level; it cannot be an upgraded version of a lower rank base item.
- Cosmic Flux: A specific amount of this currency is needed, which in this case is 2,000 Cosmic Flux to upgrade from rank 6 to 7.
The Second Legendary and Specific Powers
It’s possible to equip two legendary items, but this usually occurs in later stages of the game. To obtain and craft a second Legendary, these requirements apply:
- The Unity Power Recipe: This is often earned by attaining a specific reputation level within the game world, as is the case with Revered reputation with The Enlightened. This recipe allows you to craft a second Legendary, often with a particular power associated with your chosen Covenant.
- A 291 Base Item with Missives: The base item you use for your second legendary must be at item level 291, and you will still require missives to set the desired secondary stats.
- Sufficient Player Bound Currency: You will need Soul Ash, Soul Cinders, and Cosmic Flux, at amounts specific to Rank 7 upgrades.
Unlocking Legendary Crafting
Before you can even craft your first legendary, you need to unlock the ability. This generally requires some character progression:
- Reach Level 60: The crafting system usually becomes available at the maximum level.
- Complete the Main Story Campaign Quests: Advancing through the storyline is often necessary to access end-game content, including legendary crafting.
- Complete “Choosing Your Purpose” by Choosing Your Covenant: Covenants are a major feature in the game context, and choosing one is a prerequisite.
- Complete Your Covenant’s Campaign Quests: Further progression within your chosen Covenant is required to fully unlock the ability to craft legendary items.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. Can I go straight to crafting a 291 Legendary?
Yes, you can go straight to crafting a 291 Legendary as long as you have the appropriate Rank 7 base item, the chosen Legendary power, Missives, and the required Soul Ash, Soul Cinders, and Cosmic Flux. This also assumes you have fulfilled the unlock requirements detailed previously.
2. How much Cosmic Flux is needed for a 291 Legendary?
To upgrade a Legendary to item level 291, you need 2,000 Cosmic Flux. This is specifically for the upgrade from Rank 6 to Rank 7.
3. What is the cost of upgrading from Rank 6 to Rank 7?
Upgrading from Rank 6 to Rank 7 requires 2,000 Cosmic Flux and a new Rank 7 Base Item. There are no changes in other resource requirements.
4. What’s the cost of crafting a completely new Rank 7 Legendary?
Crafting a completely new Rank 7 Legendary requires the following:
- A Rank 7 Base Item.
- The Legendary Power recipe.
- Missives for Secondary Stats.
- 5,150 Soul Ash.
- 1,650 Soul Cinders.
- 2,000 Cosmic Flux.
5. How much Soul Ash does it cost to upgrade a legendary at different ranks?
The Soul Ash cost for legendaries is as follows:
- Rank 1 (item level 190): 1250 Soul Ash.
- Rank 2 (item level 210): 2000 Soul Ash.
- Rank 3 (item level 225): 3200 Soul Ash.
These costs are factored into the Rank 7 cost.
6. What is the cost of a Rank 7 Legendary in terms of total resources?
A Rank 7 Legendary, in total, will have 5,150 Soul Ash, 1,650 Soul Cinders, and 2,000 Cosmic Flux invested in it, along with the Rank 7 base item and missives.
7. Can you destroy a legendary item for resources?
Yes, destroying a legendary item will refund the Soul Ash, Soul Cinders, and Cosmic Flux you spent on it. However, you will not get the base item or missives back.
8. Is there a weekly cap on how much Soul Ash I can get?
Yes, players can earn up to 2080 Soul Ash each week by clearing all layers of Torghast.
9. What is the maximum rank a legendary can reach?
The maximum rank for a Legendary item is Rank 7, with an iLevel of 291.
10. How do I unlock the ability to equip a second legendary?
To craft and equip a second legendary power, you’ll need the Unity Power recipe (obtained at Revered reputation with The Enlightened), a 291 base item with missives, and the necessary Soul Ash, Cinders, and Flux for Rank 7.
11. What is the Evoker Legendary Weapon?
The Evoker Legendary Weapon is Nasz’uro, the Unbound Legacy, a 457 item level Fist Weapon with a unique Legendary effect especially powerful for Augmentation Evokers.
12. Can I skip straight to a Rank 6 Legendary?
Yes, you can skip straight to a Rank 6 legendary, but it will require the same amount of materials as if you had crafted a Rank 5 and upgraded it. For instance, you will require 2750 Soul Cinders to skip straight to Rank 6, despite Rank 5 costing 1100 and Rank 6 costing 1650 individually.
13. How do I obtain the necessary Soul Ash and Soul Cinders for a new Rank 7 Legendary?
You can purchase a Bag of Explored Souls for 3,000 Cosmic Flux at Honored with The Enlightened, which contains enough Soul Ash and Soul Cinders (5,150 and 1,650 respectively) to craft a new Rank 7 legendary.
14. What are Missives and how do they impact my Legendary?
Missives allow you to dictate the secondary stats on your crafted Legendary. This includes options like Critical Strike, Haste, Mastery, and Versatility, and allows you to fine-tune your item to match your preferred build and play style.
15. Is the new legendary in World of Warcraft Patch 10.2 related to crafting systems?
The new legendary weapon in World of Warcraft Patch 10.2, Fyr’alath, is not obtained through the crafting system and is instead a raid drop from Amirdrassil.