Tuning for Expert Instances and Raiding (Rift)  

Bludwyng's Rift Sandbox

One-stop reference for all the things you need to get your stats up to the required levels for Expert instances and Raids.

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Contents [hide] Greater Essences Soulstones Planar Lenses Synergy Crystals Seals

Once you have reached Level 50 it is time to start tuning up your gear for specific stats so that you can engage in Expert instances and Raids. If you go to the Looking for Group tool and hover over the lock icon the tooltip will tell you the minimum required stats for your party role. If you go to the Character screen, Stats tab, and hover over the stat the tooltip will tell you the recommended amount you need (a little higher than the minimum). See Progression for more information on what your stats need to be to enter each Tier of content.

A combination of gear, Runes and essences will be needed to get you to these values.

Greater Essences

All Greater essences grant a chance to proc when the trigger condition is met. This chance is usually 10%. We are still missing the names of a few of the Tier IV Essences, and a few of the ones we did fill in a re best guesses, so if you can correct this table, please do so.

Greater Essence Sourcestones

Role	Base Name	Element	Tier I (22)	Tier II (32)	Tier III (42)	Tier IV (50)	Trigger and Proc
Healing	Faesource	Life	Pricking	Stinging	Consuming	Grasping	Healing spells may add an additional Heal Over Time
	Shadesource	Death	Shrouded	Veiled	Faded	Crescent	Healing spells may increase targets Attack and Spell Power
	Tidesource	Water	Pooled	Rising	Flooded	Waking	Healing abilities may increase Spell Power
Mage DPS	Flamesource	Fire	Combusted	Engulfed	Smoldering	Cinder	Damaging spells may add extra Fire damage and Fire DOT
	Stonesource	Earth	Striated	Igneous	Metamorphic	Pulverizing	Damaging spells may increase Spell Critical Hit
	Tidesource	Water	Dripping	Breaking	Tsunami	Surging	Damaging spells may increase Spell Power
Melee DPS	Flamesource	Fire	Igniting	Burning	Scorched	Torched	Physical damaging abilities may increase Melee Critical Hit
	Stonesource	Earth	Mineralized	Sedimentary	Crystallized	Tectonic	Damaging abilities may create a partial ward
	Shadesource	Death	Ominous	Waxing	Waning	Gibbous	Physical damaging abilities may add Death damage and restore health
	Stormsource	Air	none	Cyclonic	Thunderous	Ravaging	Physical damaging abilities may increases Attack Power
Tanking	Faesource	Life	Poisonous	Venomous	Corrupting	Corrosive	Blocking may restore health
	Shadesource	Death	Ominous	Waxing	Waning	Gibbous	Physical damaging abilities may add Death damage and restore health
	Stormsource	Air	none	Vaporous	Rolling	Tempest	When hit, may increases Endurance

Greater Essence Shardstones

Plane	Type	Healing	Melee DPS	Ranged Phys	Spell DPS	Tank
Earth	?
Air	Stormshard		Zephyr Stormshard	Zephyr Stormshard		Screaming Stormshard
Fire	Flameshard		Rekindled Flameshard	Rekindled Flameshard	Rekindled Flameshard	Celestial Flameshard
Water	Tideshard	Hailstone Tideshard
Life	Faeshard	Lifeblood Faeshard				Primordial Faeshard
Death	Shadeshard		Mortuous Shadeshard		Adorned Shadeshard

There are also Greater Essences available from Rare Planar Goods vendors at the Ancient Wardstones. If he is not at the Ancient Wardstone he must be spawned by completing any Wardstone quest. The same vendors do also have some Lesser Essences that are useful at the same levels. At this time they are only available for levels 25-35, making them actually outside the mandate of this page, but Trion has promised that soon other zones will get Wardstones so we expect this part of the page to grow.

• Scarlet Gorge - Level 25 - 1 Cursed Sourcestone + 500 Planarite
• Cauterizing Crystal - Healing spells may heal for 425 over 8 secs.
• Smoldering Planar Condensate - Phys attack abilities may deal 53 Fire damage
• Magnatite Focusing Crystal - Damaging Spells may add 68 Earth damage

• Scarwood Reach - Level 30 - 1 Vile Sourcestone + 800 Planarite
• Gleaming Life Crystal - Healing spells may heal for 425 over 8 secs.
• Necrotic Condensation - Phys attack abilities may deal 63 Death damage
• Negative Energy Shard - Damaging Spells may add 81 Death damage

• Droughtlands - Level 35 - 1 Vile Sourcestone + 1600 Planarite
• Sparkling Extraplanar Gem - Healing spells may heal for 615 over 8 secs.
• Sharp Edged Gem - Phys attack abilities may deal 77 Earth damage
• Crystalized Ember - Damaging Spells may add 100 Fire damage

Soulstones

Soulstones were apparently retired and removed from the game sometime between 1.2 and 1.5. The information has been moved off of this page but will be kept, for historical purposes if nothing else.

Planar Lenses

Just as a lens focuses light, a Planar Lens focuses one particular stat towards the levels needed for Expert instances and raids. These are Lesser essences but you may only have one Planar Lens equipped at a time. They cost 1500-2000 Planarite plus 46 Crystal Sourcestone or 20 Inscribed Sourcestone, so they will take some hard work to acquire. These are sold by the Rift faction merchants in Meridian and Sanctum.

BTW, each Daily Expert rift awards 3 Inscribed Sourcestone, and the Daily Raid Rift (DRR) quest rewards 6 Inscribed Sourcestone.

1500 Planarite, 20 Inscribed Sourcestone and Decorated standing

• Thick Planar Lens - +10 Toughness (Life or Earth)
• Scuffed Planar Lens - +12 Hit (Death or Water)
• Scratched Planar Lens - +12 Focus (Fire or Air)

2500 Planarite and 50 Inscribed Sourcestone

• Reinforced Planar Lens - +20 Toughness
• Sharp Planar Lens - +20 Hit
• Polished Planar Lens - +20 Focus

Synergy Crystals

Each of the Planar Faction quartermasters sells a Transplanar Crystal for 3 Inscribed Sourcestone. They can be added to any Set Armor, such as the armor from the merchants outside Hammerknell Fortress. The bonus' accumulate the more crystals of the same type that you have.

Plane	Crystal	Bonuses
		2	4
Earth	Gilded Transplanar Crystal	Endurance +20	Attack Power +20
Air	Empyreal Transplanar Crystal	Endurance +20	Spell Power +20
Fire	Smouldering Transplanar Crystal	Endurance +20	Wisdom +20
Water	Condensed Transplanar Crystal	Endurance +20	Intelligence +20
Life	Living Transplanar Crystal	Endurance +20	Strength +20
Death	Necrotic Transplanar Crystal	Endurance +20	Dexterity +20

Seals

Patch 1.8 created a new gear slot, Seals. See Seals for a table of who makes each one and what they improve.