Originally Posted by
Manofdusk
I'm fairly new to the game and very new to the crafting system. I've been trying to gather essences from the items I get out of chests and from quest rewards but so many of them only want to let me pull the enhancement bonus from them or just disjoin them.
Even when I have stuff that I can't see any reason why it shouldn't give me an essence.
I had a robe of Con +2 and poison resist +3. I figured I could get either a lesser body or lesser earth essence from it but it only showed the option to disjoin.
I found a shield of Ice Guard... but I can't get a water essence from it. It was the same with a bow of ice lore and another robe of fire absorption.
My question is.... is there a minimum crafting requirement to be able to pull the enhancements off of these items?
It seems like I was getting a lot more essences off items before I actually started trying to farm for them. Weapons seem to be the only thing I can pull essences off of but even then there's no guarantee.