Mystic

Mystic concept and in-game art.

The Mystic is one of the three Artisans introduced in Diablo III. Like the Blacksmith and the Jeweler, the Mystic is located in the Caravan area, and handles various NPC merchant chores, including item sales and crafting requests.

All of the Artisans will be heavily involved in quests and the game's plot, even after the player completes the initial quests to get them to join up with his adventuring efforts.

The Mystic's Functions

The mystic's primary function is to enchant items, adding magical bonuses to them. Her official description from the Caravan FAQ upon the Artisan announcement listed more functions than the possesses in the final game:

The mystic creates scrolls, potions, magical weapons, spell runes, and charms, and can also enchant items.

Like the other Artisans, the Mystic can craft items from recipes. When the NPC was revealed, it was said that she could craft magical and rare Staves and Wands, though it seems that those functions may have been moved to the Blacksmith during later development. The mystic may be able to identify items as well; this was one of her originally stated features[1], but as only rare and legendary items require identification in Diablo III, and identify scrolls are cheap and plentiful, this seems a fairly non-essential Artisan function.

Item Enchantments

The range of possible enhancements is shown in this comparison shot.

The Mystic's main utility comes from her ability to add bonuses to all sorts of items. This system was detailed in the BlizzCon 2011 Panel: Gameplay & Auction House, and discussed in Blizzcon 2011 interviews. [2]

<blue>Gameplanet: Are [the Mystic's item enchantments] randomised or can they be selected?
Andrew Chambers: You specify the item you want, then you choose the enhancement you want, and that enhancement actually has a range. So say the plus experience might be 10 to 20 percent: when she applies it you might get +15% experience. You can reapply that and you’ll have a change of getting +16% or +17% experience, but it will never go beneath the current enhancement and you've always got a chance to improve to the maximum possible value.

There is not yet a list of the Mystic's types of enchantments or the levels of training at which they become available. Training the Mystic to learn more enchants works just like training up the Blacksmith or Jeweler; lots of gold, lots of materials, and dozens of books of training.

Mystic's Wagon

The Mystic's cart.

Concept art for her wagon was shown in the Crafting Sanctuary panel at Blizzcon 2010. It's very round and organic in shape, to make it stand out from the Blacksmith's very rectangular, regularly-shaped wagon.

At higher levels her wagon improves in appearance, and the wands and other items lying around will look much more impressive and dramatic as well.

Mystic's Interface

Mystic's.

All of the Artisans have their own customized interface boxes. They all share the same window and controls, but the backgrounds of their individual windows differ, to show the differences between them. The Blacksmith's have been seen in screenshots; they're wood and metal, with forge tools.

The Mystic's is seen to the left, in a panel from the Crafting Sanctuary panel at Blizzcon 2010. The visibility isn't good, but you can see the New Age-y type panel, with shells and trinkets and a bird's feather.

The Mystic's Story

Very little is yet known of the Mystic's character. Not even the character's name. Leaked files imply her name is "Karyna".

There was immediate speculation that Adria, largely-confirmed as a returning character, would be the Mystic, but this has not been confirmed. In fact, it seems to be argued against by a reference to the Mystic as a "he" in one German report from Gamescom. It's possible this was a transcription error, or a misheard gender reference, though. [3]

No details about the Mystic‘s quest or backstory, since it’s still being developed. Jay does definitely use the pronoun “he” to refer to the Mystic, which seems a blow to the speculation that this is where Adria returns.

Media

The first images of the Mystic and her shop were revealed at Blizzcon 2010. She has not yet appeared in any screenshots.

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  Concept and in-game version of the character.

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  The Mystic's cart.

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  Mystic's interface.

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  Concept art for the Artisans' wagons.