muting:
you get essence from an item, from magical to the magical tier of the item randomly
you can use this to reroll an item of the same tier
if you reroll items there is a chance that the item degrades to a lower magical level or poofs entirely
if you reroll an item with an essence make sure to use the same magical tier, it can only roll max to the magical tier of the item even if essence is higher, so using a mythical item and arcane essence you get a mythical item (or even lower)
you can reroll heavy weapons for 2 essence per roll
there is a tooltip on essences saying "skill rank req: xx" this used to be the minimum prof someone needed to roll the essences, but now any character can roll any essence, you just need the prof to get the essence
suffing:
you need essences from muting for this
you can increase the effectiveness of fish and comfreys, lengthen the duration of glyphs or combine essences to create higher magical stat ones
you can only suff items of the same tier, for comfreys tier only shows up if you lift the item up
you combine 2 essences to create a higher level one so 2 magical for 1 rare, 2 rare for 1 mystical etc.
also there is the tooltip of minimum item needed to level up, this has been changed also so you get prof even if you do lower ones than shown
you can see the chart here for the maximum items you can skill:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=71029557&f=276for muting you are generally able to do the highest one shown, but lower levels are a bit weird with high fluctuations in the bars, most efficient for leveling the prof is doing closer to the minimum shown
you will not really get much prof for doing ones one tier lower than the tier of the minimum shown, so for example if you look at the chart, once you reach prof 15 in muting you won't get much reward for muting tier 3's
suffing you can interrupt and still get prof
fastest leveling of suffing is to use fish and essences, you can buy low tier ones of both occasionally for like 0.01 fg per or something cheap
also there are events, for muting faster muting is good if you want to get a lot of essences, but bad for getting prof since it scales down to be the same amount for the time spent doing it, but you need to spend time or fg collecting items
for using the essences try to wait for +% item stat quality and/or +% magic luck effectiveness event because these both effect the quality of the rolls (you should wear as much magic luck gear as you can when rolling)
for suffing there is suffing enhanced effect increase which goes up to 100% so valuable glyphs, fish, comfreys should get suffed during these
as far as I know wearing magic luck gear doesn't increase the quality of suffing or the chances of getting higher essences from muting
in this chart you can find some history of event modifiers and decide for yourself if it's worth waiting for
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ntOvUpY8ZOvFhXOOyPVLIoZCgiDG-AIh4IT1AzbnUWo/edit#gid=671076755This post was edited by peterqwer on Mar 7 2022 02:47am