Fragments (along with Essences and Hearts) are crafting ingredients dropped by monsters throughout the realms. If you have a crafting satchel (with available space), you will automatically pick up and stash any fragments, essences, or hearts that drop. They are used in all enchanting and most smithing recipes. Fragments, essences, and hearts can be upgraded in quality as well as changed from one type to another by a Transmuter.
With 5 fragments, you can 'assemble fragment of <type>' to make an essence.
With 5 essences, you can 'assemble essence of <type>' to make a heart.
Alternatively, you can 'shatter heart of <type>' to make 5 essences.
You can also 'shatter essence of <type>' to make 5 fragments.
Mixing When Assembling[]
When combining fragments or essences, the average (always rounded down) of their qualities results in an essence or heart of that grade. It does not appear after some preliminary testing that there's any weighting to the scale.
| Grade | Value |
|---|---|
| Worthless | 1 |
| Crude | 2 |
| Poor | 3 |
| Average | 4 |
| Good | 5 |
| Superior | 6 |
| Legendary | 7 |
As an example, assembling 4 good fragments and a worthless fragment results in an average essence.
4*5 + 1*1 = 21.
21 / 5 = 4 rounded down.
Since good and average gems have the same effect when gemchanted or smithed, this may come in handy.