Hope of Cain
The Hope of Cain is a recipe for Kanai's Cube that upgrades a rare item to a legendary or set item of the same item type. The item type is key; for instance, players who want The Furnace must use a rare Two-Handed Legendary Mace, which will transmute into one of the legendary two handed maces, randomly-chosen.
This recipe only works with level 70 rare items, but rare items of any origin can be used, including crafted or vendor-purchased items, or rares that originated via gambling.
It's also a useful way to upgrade expensive items to gamble, such as Amulets. Considering a 1/10 success rate on gambling a legendary, that's approximately 1000 Blood Shards per legendary amulet gamble, at 100 shards each. Players lacking in Blood Shards but needing an amulet (or weapon, or ring) may find the material costs of this recipe much more affordable than the Blood Shard costs to attempt to gamble a legendary or set item.
Newly-created legendary or set items via this recipe are entirely random in stats and Ancient (or not) quality, just as though the item had just been dropped by a monster or found from a chest.
Upgrade Rare Item
The Hope of Cain recipe allows a player to turn any level 70 Rare item into a random legendary or set item of the same type. Items purchased from vendors or gambled can be used, as well as found from drops. Best used on items that are expensive to gamble, like Amulets, or to hunt for specific legendary weapons, such as two-handed maces to attempt to create The Furnace.
- 1 Rare item (level 70)
- 25 Death's Breath
- 50 Reusable Parts (white material)
- 50 Arcane Dust (blue material)
- 50 Veiled Crystal (yellow material)
- "When the physical material of the cube was forged, the real work began. Ten Horadrim took it deep into the cave, to a place that should never have been disturbed."
- --fragment of the Dark Exile Scrolls.
Kanai's Cube Recipes
Click the recipes for full ingredients and details.
- Archive of Tal Rasha -- Extract Legendary Power
- Law of Kulle -- Reforge Legendary Item
- Hope of Cain -- Upgrade Rare item to Legendary
- Skull of Nilfur -- Convert Set Item
- Work of Cathan -- Remove clvl req from item
- Darkness of Radament -- Convert gems.
- Anger of Iben Fahd -- Convert white/blue/yellow materials.
- Open portal to The Vault -- req. Puzzle Ring (undocumented)
- Open portal to Not the Cow Level -- req. Bovine Bardiche (undocumented)
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