Tutorial: Focusing Your Essence

Focusing your Essence is a relatively new feature in VDS, and a fun way to get interesting rewards for returning to the game daily.  You will need to focus approximately once every 24 hours - for up to 30 days - to reap these rewards.

On your Home page in VDS, right towards the top of the page, you will see the third button is "Focus Essence":

Clicking this button brings you to your Sphere of Dark Essence.  It will be, at first, basically black/empty in the center.  Below the Sphere click, Focus Essence:

Doing this will add a small amount of purple "essence" to the sphere, the level of which will raise every day you click.  You will get a little box declaring that you focused, which you can publish to your wall.  You will not be able to focus again for 24 hours (after which you'll have 24 more hours to focus next), but you can always click "Focus Essence" to learn how long you have until you can make your next focus (if only Trinity assist requests did this!).  It takes 30 days to fill the sphere completely, but you will be offered opportunities to cash out your already-focused essence periodically prior to that time.  In theory, better rewards come to those who wait.

Importantly, however, this is a reward for DAILY play; if you fail to return, your sphere RESETS, and you must begin all over with an empty sphere!

Many types of rewards are granted through this process.  Favour points, rare powers, consumable items, a special Dark Orb Sanctum, and - it has been rumored - maybe even skill points, can be earned this way.

Ooooooo Preeetty.....  Click to Enlarge.

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