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How to Upgrade Essence

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Arknights Endfield How to Upgrade Essence
Here's how to Upgrade your Essence in Arknights: Endfield. Read on to learn the steps for etching essences and what you can use to upgrade Essences here!

Essence Guides
How to Farm and Use How to Upgrade

List of Contents

How to Upgrade Essence

  1. Get Flawless Essence
  2. Upgrade the Essence For Your Weapon
  3. Choose a Stat to Upgrade
  4. Upgrade Essence Stat to Max Level

Get Flawless Essence From Severe Energy Alluviums

Master Duel - Farm Flawless Essence in Severe Energy Alluviums

Upgrading Essences via Etching is only available for Flawless Essences. They can only be farmed in Severe Energy Alluviums in higher levels, so come prepared with your best team to take down the enemies and get them!

Different Rarities of Essences

Rarity Essence Type
5-star Flawless
4-star Clean
3-star Pure
2-star Stable

The rarity of an Essence determines the number of passives it can have. A 2-star Essence will always have one line of passive available, while a 5-star Essence can have either 2 to 3 lines of passives, with 3 being the maximum.

Upgrade the Essence Best Suited For Your Weapon

Choose Which Essence to Etch

Afterwards, choose the Flawless Essence which will be used to Etch on their current passives.

It is highly suggested you Etch the most optimal, 3-line Flawless Essences you have that are perfect for your Operator's weapons. Their passives must match the ones your weapons have on all three slots, shown on the left side of the Weapon menu.

Etching Increases Stat Levels for Weapons

Use Unwanted Essence for Upgrades

You need a different Flawless Essence as the cost to Etch, so make sure to choose the ones that have not been Etched onto, and avoid the ones you want to Etch later by locking them.

Choose a Stat to Upgrade

Choose Which Stat to Etch and Improve

Once you've chosen an Essence to upgrade, choose which one of the 3 stats you want to etch. That stat will get an increase of said level's passive, which will make it easier to fulfill the conditions of the weapon's Boost effects.

Upgrade Essence Stat to Max Level

Etching Success Rate

Once you've chosen the Stat you upgrade, you can now feed it Flawless Essence. You will need a lot of Essence to increase your stat level, and there's a chance that it could fail upon upgrading.

Make sure to check on the Success Rate of the Etching attempt as it can range from Very High to Low, with the rate getting lower the stronger the upgrade is. Failing an Etching attempt loses the Flawless Essence used as cost, but it does not have any detrimental effect to the Essence being upgraded.

Coolant Guarantees Etching Success

If you fail an Etching Attempt, you will gain 10 pieces of a special currency called Coolant. These can be used to guaranteee the success of an Etching attempt.

Etching Explained

Etching Increases Stat Levels for Weapons

Essence Stat Must Match Stat Bonus from Weapon

Etching is a process that increases the levels of passive buffs to make it easier to activate the passive buffs of your Weapon. This makes your character much stronger with added stats and effects that boost their efficiency in combat.

This is why it is very important that you equip the best possible Essence on the weapon that matches the same passives as the weapon. Ideally, you want Flawless Essences with 3 lines of buffs; the maximum possible for an Essence.

Only Flawless Essences Can Be Upgraded

Etching Allowed on Highest Rarity Essences

Etching Essences is only allowed to the highest rarity of Essences, called Flawless Essence.

These can be obtained and farmed in Severe Energy Alluviums, which rewards the player with Flawless Essence upon clearing.

How to Farm and Use Essence

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