Stone of Change - Eldritch Rituals Cookbook

[Ilandrya]

I sincerely believe that the upgrade paths are going to be limited to Focus A + Focus B + Focus A -OR- Focus A + Focus A + Focus A. Every other combination, e.g. Focus A + Focus A + Focus B -OR- Focus A + Focus B + Focus B has resulted in nothing. To me this is a clear indicator that other such combinations will result in nothing.

Also, I mentioned it before but there is a limit to the number of uber effects that the Devs can put on items, going the route listed above there is a result of 36 possibilities which is already A LOT. And, I'll throw this out there again since it hasn't been disproven yet...the Devs DID mention a "special" upgrade route that was not related to Focus type which I believe may end up being based on Gem Type.

Edit: Here is a list of what I believe are the other possible options for upgrading based on gem type:
Focus Type | Essence Type | Gem Type 1 | Gem Type 2 | Gem Type 3
Air | Ethereal | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Earth | Ethereal | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Fire | Ethereal | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Negative | Ethereal | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Positive | Ethereal | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Water | Ethereal | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Air | Material | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Earth | Material | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Fire | Material | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Negative | Material | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Positive | Material | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition
Water | Material | Dominion | Escalation | Opposition

I agree that the number of effects will be much smaller, it's just a matter of finding out the patterns that work and those that don't. I have my suspicions about them, but have too little by way of examples to state anything for certain at this time. I need to see an elemental A,B,B focus pattern first before I can go any further.

I did see where a dev mentioned about a special upgrade route, but did not see anything about it not being related to focuses.

On another note, I don't know if anyone else has noticed this or not, but the power shards can go in your trinket slot. I'm wondering if embued shards when placed in your trinket slot do anything, either by themselves, or in combination with other green steel items you have equipped.

I'm also wondering if anyone has tried using more than one embued shard when upgrading, and if anyone has tried the addy ritual on the power shards.

With the green steel item, power cell, and shard there are still two more slots open during the upgrade process.