Salvage: exchange unwanted gear at a smith
Salvage accepts magic-or-better Darkforged gear at the appropriate blacksmith service; a Pandora Box is not required. It consumes the target. Favourites are excluded from automatic salvage selection. Compare drops, favourite the pieces worth keeping, then process the equipment you no longer need.
Enchant: choose one affix to keep rerolling
Enchanting uses an essence matching the item’s quality and a gold fee. After the first enchant locks in an affix slot, later enchants on that item can only reroll that slot. This is different from reforging the entire item; it does not let you replace every affix one by one. New primary affixes use the current equipment-guide tiers; existing fixed attributes are not automatically recalculated.
Socketing and the cube solve different problems
The cube opens sockets on eligible plain bases, upgrades magic items to rare, reforges a rare item and upgrades runes. Rune insertion uses the separate socketing page. Essences, socketing and cube actions use the materials and prerequisites defined by Darkforged.
Quest and basic recipes have their own rules
Darkforged provides quest crafting, material processing, handmade equipment and basic Pandora recipes. They retain their own materials and skill conditions. Their output follows the recipe rather than guaranteeing random legendary gear. Ordinary recipe selection avoids favourites and magic-or-better Darkforged gear.
Read the quote and the actual ingredients
The in-game recipe book searches ingredients and outputs, displays owned, usable and missing quantities, and opens the real workshop. This website does not read your bag and cannot tell you that your character can craft something. Check the cost, the selected target and the irreversible spend before confirming.
Open the in-game example and image notes
Keep the base, then complete the rune order
The normal base must match the recipe’s type and exact total sockets. Insert runes in order to combine their own properties with the additional runeword effects.
Advanced-character gameplay · Not starting rewards · Historical layout; equipment management opens from the workshop or recipe bookThe capture keeps the rune names used when recorded. Use the current Rune 1–Rune 8 names and recipes on this page.
Actual salvage outputs
| Quality | Outputs |
|---|---|
| Magic | Magic Essence ×1 |
| Rare | Rare Essence ×1 + Magic Essence ×1 |
| Legendary | Legendary Essence ×1 + Rare Essence ×2 |
| Set | Legendary Essence ×1 + Rare Essence ×2 |
One-affix enchanting
| Quality | Material | Gold cost |
|---|---|---|
| Magic | Magic Essence ×1 | 300 × item level |
| Rare | Rare Essence ×1 | 300 × item level |
| Legendary | Legendary Essence ×1 | 300 × item level |
| Set | Legendary Essence ×1 | 300 × item level |
Darkforged cube operations
Reforge a rare item
Rerolls the rare item’s affixes as a whole; this is not one-affix enchanting.
- Material
- Rare Essence ×3
- Gold cost
- 500 × item level
Upgrade magic to rare
Keeps existing affixes and completes the rare structure; no particular new property is guaranteed.
- Material
- Rare Essence ×2
- Gold cost
- 400 × item level
Open sockets on a plain base
Needs an eligible normal base with no existing affixes or sockets; opens its maximum sockets for type and item level.
- Material
- Rare Essence ×2
- Gold cost
- 300 × item level
Upgrade matching runes
Moves to the next rune in the rule table; the highest rune has no further upgrade recipe.
Material: 3 × Rune
Gold cost: 5000
- Rune 1 ×3 → Rune 2
- Rune 2 ×3 → Rune 3
- Rune 3 ×3 → Rune 4
- Rune 4 ×3 → Rune 5
- Rune 5 ×3 → Rune 6
- Rune 6 ×3 → Rune 7
- Rune 7 ×3 → Rune 8
Quest recipes and basic crafting
Darkforged currently defines 162 quest and basic recipes: 109 crafting and 53 basic cube recipes. Including essence services and runewords, the in-game book lists 186 rule entries.
Check the appropriate skill for processing and handmade recipes; talent recipes follow their own rules. Obtain the Pandora Box before using its interface. Quest and class conditions can also affect where materials come from.
A quest cube recipe example: Ancient Relic
Material: Relic Fragment · Zuma ×1 + Relic Fragment · White Boar ×1 + Relic Fragment · Wooma ×1 + Relic Fragment · Tomb ×1 + Relic Fragment · Mine ×1
Output: Ancient Relic ×1
Gold cost: 0