Rift essence

Rift essences are currencies used in crafting of the legendary Obsidian armor and Rift Motivations or exchange for other items.

Overview

• Raw Rift Essences can be acquired through Rift Hunting and Convergences. These include:
  • Fine Rift Essence
  • Masterwork Rift Essence
  • Rare Rift Essence
• Refined Rift Essences are refined versions of rift essences used in the crafting legendary equipment or for exchanging other items. These include:
  • Amalgamated Rift Essence
  • Purified Rift Essence
• Vendors that offer an exchange for rift essence include:
  • Gharr Leadclaw — offer exchanges for currencies, materials, and more.
  • Astral Ward Mage (Outfitter) — offers precursor armors required for Obsidian armor.
  • Lyhr, Ward Crafter Lucirae, and Renown Heart NPC in Janthir — as an assisted refining.
  • Junior Archivist's Aide Conri — offers items required for Suffused Obsidian armor.
  • Rift Researcher Adam — offers weapons, armors, and conversions.

Related masteries

Heart of the Obscure Research mastery track

•   Rift Guidance — The Heart of the Obscure can be used to find small Kryptis rifts.

Astral Ward mastery track

•   Astral Craft — Gain access to purchasing Astral Ward armor and the recipes to craft common and uncommon Kryptis Motivations for use in rift hunting.
•   Emotion Control — Gain access to purchasing the recipe to craft rare Kryptis Motivations for use in rift hunting.
•   Rift Mastery — Learn to extract greater amounts of Kryptis essence from rifts.

Inner Nayos mastery track

•   Convergence Mastery — Doubles the amount of Rift essence received when completing Convergences and grants  Rift Essence Extractor.

Acquisition: Rift Hunting

Primary article: Rift Hunting

Rewards

Raw Rift Essences is obtained by completing the pre-boss event of any tier rift (for Fine Rift Essence) and by closing a Kryptis or titanspawn Mist Rift at the end of a Rift Hunting session.

Rift Hunting	Pre-Event	Boss Event		Motivation
		without mastery	with mastery	without buff	with buff
Tier 1 Rift	3 to 7	3 to 7	6 to 14	25 to 42	42 to 55
Tier 2 Rift		3 to 7	6 to 14	25 to 42	42 to 55
Tier 3 Rift		3 to 7	6 to 14	25 to 42	42 to 55

Container

Primary articles: Rift Extraction, Weekly Rift Hunting, Weekly Rift Hunting (Janthir Wilds)

By doing weekly Rift Hunting achievements, the player will be rewarded a Rift Extraction.

Container		Rift Essence
Item	Acquisition	Fine	Masterwork	Rare
Rift Extraction	Received from participating in Secrets of the Obscure Weekly Rift Hunting or Janthir Wilds Weekly Rift Hunting. Drop rate research can be found here	4-8	4-8	4-8

Acquisition: Convergences

Primary articles: Convergence: Outer Nayos, Convergence: Mount Balrior

Rewards

Convergences	Rift Essence
	Fine	Masterwork	Rare
without Mastery	12-25	5-10	2-5
with Convergence Mastery	25-50	10-20	5-10
failure	12-25	5-10	2-5

1: This table only includes Rift Essences obtained from successful rewards. for full reward lists see their own respective articles.

2: Number of Rift Essences based on player participation.

Containers

The following containers are acquired from a completion of convergences and achievements.

Container		Rift Essence
Item	Acquisition	Fine	Masterwork	Rare
Convergence: Hero's Choice Chest	Once per day per account upon successful completion of Convergence: Outer Nayos. (Choice)	100	40	20
Convergence: Mount Balrior Commander's Choice Chest	Once per day per account upon successful completion of Convergence: Mount Balrior. (Choice)	100	40	20
Nugget of Rift Essence	Convergences achievements. Drop rate research can be found here	12-25, rarely 50	5-10, rarely 20	2-5, rarely 10
Unlocked Rift Essence Coffer	Opening a Rift Essence Coffer using Unstable Rift Motivation. Drop rate research can be found here	25-10 or 125	10-20 or 50	5-10 or 25
Completion of Challenge Mode in Convergence: Outer Nayos and Convergence: Mount Balrior
Convergence Challenge Mode: Bronze	Daily per boss, and first time completion of each boss.	12-25, rarely 50	5-10, rarely 20	2-5, rarely 10
Convergence Challenge Mode: Silver	Daily per boss, and first time completion of each boss.	24-50 or more	10-20 or more	4-10 or more
Convergence Challenge Mode: Gold	Daily per boss from Demon Knight, Dreadwing, and Decima.	24-50 or more	10-20 or more	4-10 or more
	Daily per boss from Hell Sister, Sorrow, and Ura.	48-100 or more	20-40 or more	8-20 or more
	Daily from Umbriel and Greer, and first time completion of each boss.	72-150 or more	30-60 or more	12-30 or more

• Silver and Gold chests contain multiple smaller drops behind the scenes (seen before essences were converted to a currency), and their ranges thus follow a bell curve.
• The chance for the "jackpot" is very low and not included in the expected ranges.

Refined Rift essence

• The three types of raw essences are also currencies used in crafting refined versions of the essence (directly or indirectly):
• Recipes for crafting refined Rift essence items can be purchased from Lyhr, Astral Ward Mage (Outfitter) and Second Hunter Kamilla.
• Refined Rift essence items can also be purchased from Lyhr, who is located under the stairs in the Outer Ring in the Wizard's Tower.
  • The Astral Ward mastery track and its masteries, Astral Craft and Emotion Control, are required to purchase them.

Item	Rarity	Discipline(s)	Rating	Ingredients
Amalgamated Rift Essence (Learned from: Recipe: Amalgamated Rift Essence)	FExotic	ArtificerArmorsmithHuntsmanLeatherworkerTailorWeaponsmithChefJewelerScribe	400	250 Fine Rift Essence 100 Masterwork Rift Essence 50 Rare Rift Essence 50 Glob of Ectoplasm
Purified Rift Essence (Learned from: Recipe: Purified Rift Essence)	GAscended	ArtificerArmorsmithHuntsmanLeatherworkerTailorWeaponsmithChefJewelerScribe	400	1 Mystic Clover 1 Amalgamated Rift Essence

Rift motivations

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You've applied the motivation to the Heart of the Obscure. This motivation will enhance the Heart's Scan for Rift ability to locate more dangerous targets and lead you to them.

— Heart of the Obscure Enhanced, in-game hint

• Rift essence is used in crafting Rift Motivations, gizmos that increase the yield from Rift Hunting.
• Recipes for crafting motivations can be purchased from Lyhr, Astral Ward Mage (Outfitter) and Second Hunter Kamilla.
  • The Astral Ward mastery track and its masteries, Astral Craft and Emotion Control, are required to purchase them.

Item	Rarity	Discipline(s)	Rating	Ingredients
Fine Rift Motivation (Learned from: Recipe: Fine Rift Motivation)	CFine	ArtificerArmorsmithHuntsmanLeatherworkerTailorWeaponsmithChefJewelerScribe	400	5 Pile of Incandescent Dust 5 Large Bone 5 Glob of Ectoplasm 5 Research Note
Masterwork Rift Motivation (Learned from: Recipe: Masterwork Rift Motivation)	DMasterwork	ArtificerArmorsmithHuntsmanLeatherworkerTailorWeaponsmithChefJewelerScribe	400	25 Large Claw 25 Research Note 25 Fine Rift Essence 1 Fine Rift Motivation
Rare Rift Motivation (Learned from: Recipe: Rare Rift Motivation)	ERare	ArtificerArmorsmithHuntsmanLeatherworkerTailorWeaponsmithChefJewelerScribe	400	25 Vial of Potent Blood 50 Research Note 25 Masterwork Rift Essence 1 Masterwork Rift Motivation

Trivia

• Prior to the release of Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds, rift essences were called Kryptis essences.
• Rift essences were introduced in Secrets of the Obscure as Crafting materials before being converted to a Wallet Currency in the June 3, 2025 update.

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Rift Hunting (achievements) and Convergences

Secrets of the Obscure	Weekly Kryptis rifts Convergence: Outer Nayos
Janthir Wilds	Weekly Titanspawn rifts Convergence: Mount Balrior
Visions of Eternity	Weekly Castora rifts
Related items
Rift essences	Fine Masterwork Rare Amalgamated Purified
Rift motivations	Fine Masterwork Rare‎ Unstable