Essences

[stillalive93]

Anyone know where all the Essences are?
Document those you do find here, until they are all known and someone makes a guide.

Here are where I've found them so far.

- Ruins of Lod - First screen, obscured by a pillar
- Disputed Island - Bottom right of first screen
- Desert - Bottom-right corner
- Lost Cave - Top-right. Go backwards from the nearby puzzle to minimise battles.
- Artifacters' Guild forge - One from the left-hand NPC.
- You are scripted to acquire one in each of the Wraith Shard dungeons - Wind Tower, Water Garden and Magma Sanctum. The right-hand NPC in the forge will give you these if you install and start the DLC on a save-file where those dungeons are already completed.

[Tyler Mire]

Originally posted by stillalive93:

Anyone know where all the Essences are?
Document those you do find here, until they are all known and someone makes a guide.

Here are where I've found them so far.

- Ruins of Lod - First screen, obscured by a pillar
- Disputed Island - Bottom right of first screen
- Desert - Bottom-right corner
- Lost Cave - Top-right. Go backwards from the nearby puzzle to minimise battles.
- Artifacters' Guild forge - One from each of the 2 NPCs

Quick note, as addressed in the FAQ. Essences are found in certain story sequences. So if you start DLC from a point past them, the npc in the Forge will give you the ones you missed :)

Once you find them all, you should make a guide for this and post it to our Steam page!

[stillalive93]

OP edited to clarify that I'm such a player. Mine is an endgame save, with all the base-game's secret areas completed. Any guide I make would be inaccurate, as I've already completed the Wraith Shard dungeons.

[Vance Finiraldi]

I'll help. Luckily I have a backup save from right before I started essence collecting so I'll work with that one and sweep through the map again. In turn, I hope this will help someone pinpoint the last one I need. XD I'll edit this as I go.

Firstly, the story essences that Rudo gives later at the Artificier's Guild are attached to these dungeons. So it probably won't do good to comb over them. But if someone wants to reexplore them anyway, go ahead:

- Wind Tower
- Magma Sanctum
- Water Garden

With that out of the way...

- Haunted Swamp - Same island as the cemetary/large grave hiding the secret passage. At th southern edge slightly obscured by a dead tree.
- Butterfly Isle - Northern edge of the Isle. The bonus boss here starts immediately when you enter, so you have to beat it first to get to the chest containing the Essence.

Including the ones mentioned in the OP, that's 10. I can not, for the life of me, remember how I got the 11th, and I don't feel too keen on backtracking certain areas at the moment. Might have been after the first puzzle in the Mystic Cave but I doubt it.

[stillalive93]

Originally posted by Vance Finiraldi:

- Haunted Swamp - Same island as the cemetary/large grave hiding the secret passage. At th southern edge slightly obscured by a dead tree.
- Butterfly Isle - Northern edge of the Isle. The bonus boss here starts immediately when you enter, so you have to beat it first to get to the chest containing the Essence.

Including the ones mentioned in the OP, that's 10. I can not, for the life of me, remember how I got the 11th, and I don't feel too keen on backtracking certain areas at the moment. Might have been after the first puzzle in the Mystic Cave but I doubt it.

It's after the last puzzle in the Mystic Caverns. You get dropped next to its chest after entering the wind. That still isn't all of them. I'm guessing there's 12. Any luck finding them/it, nebulous community?

[Vance Finiraldi]

Unfortunately that's not the one I had previously gotten. I'll search later.

That aside, something is strange is going on with me. I have 12 total in my main file (9 already on the Grand Reliquaries, 3 sitting in my inventory due to not yet obtaining the fourth GR), but I don't have the achievement for collecting all the Essences. Is there a 13th spare Essence or something do I need to collect the Cosmo Mantle, too? I mean, you only need 12 to apply three relics each on the four GRs, so having more than that would be weird... XD;

EDIT: Hm. Okay. Got the Cosmo Mantle now and applied my last three essences onto it... Still no achievement. Tried removing them all to have the 12 in my inventory again and got nothing, too. Is it because I got the story essences from Rudo instead of when you're supposed to?

[The Magnificent Fluffy Ty]

Do you mind helping me with a debug step? Alternatively, you can e-mail your save file to [e-mail]

Turn the console on as described here. Load up your saved game which has all essences found, and then enter under the 'Console' tab of the developer tools:

ig.global.namedVariables.getValue('ty_essence_found')

You will get a return output of found essences. The achievement fires if the value is 12 or higher. For your save file, if it is showing a number lower than 12, then have you found any essences that were not in a chest? Like from Rudo in the guild?

[Vance Finiraldi]

The value given was 11. I had received all the story essences from Rudo. And there's also the freebie from the guy at the forge.

Edit: Just tested it with my back-up. It's because of the one from the Master Forger. Value doesn't go up when you obtain it.

[Tyler Mire]

Originally posted by Vance Finiraldi:

The value given was 11. I had received all the story essences from Rudo. And there's also the freebie from the guy at the forge.

Edit: Just tested it with my back-up. It's because of the one from the Master Forger. Value doesn't go up when you obtain it.

Ah, that's an easy fix then.

[The Magnificent Fluffy Ty]

If that's the case, I'll get that patched up as soon as I can (Most likely tomorrow). I'll add a special check during file load which will grant the achievement for those that found all essences and never had the achievement fire off.

Sorry for the trouble~

[Vance Finiraldi]

No problem. Glad I could help. =)

[GuyInDogSuit]

It seems I'm missing two essences. Got every one from the list so far, except the one in Mystic Cave, just don't know where the last one is.

[♡ Mari's Pookie ♡]

Ya I can relate as well I have 12 Essences total, and no achievment popped. Should I email my save file then? If not I'll wait til you can patch the game to fix the issue. Unless you already did?

[Vance Finiraldi]

Originally posted by PsyXchO:

Ya I can relate as well I have 12 Essences total, and no achievment popped. Should I email my save file then? If not I'll wait til you can patch the game to fix the issue. Unless you already did?

Nope. Haven't seen an auto-update for the game since I helped narrowed down the issue for them. They're likely taking care of other bugs and issues before releasing the next patch. As long as you set aside a back-up save that has all 12 Essences, I would't worry about it. They'll do it in a way that will retroactively reward players who are already elligible for the achievements

[♡ Mari's Pookie ♡]

Ya I figured, but its okay. Im a patient person so Im willing to wait. The devs for this game, do an amazing job fixing bugs and etc. I love this game! :D

[The Magnificent Fluffy Ty]

V 1.0.2 is currently in the beta branch on Steam, and contains the fix for the "Find All Essences" achievement. It will retroactively add the achivement once you load a game which has 11 essences found and the master forger talked to flag is set.

You can access the beta branch by doing the following: Right click 'Shadows of Adam' in your Steam Library. Select 'Properties'. Select the 'Betas' tab. Opt-in to the 'beta' branch.