Scrap of scripture

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Scrap of scripture
Release																				3 July 2017 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				No
GIM storage																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				Yes
Disassembly																				No
Destroy																				If destroyed it will be lost forever. You will need to find more by shattering phylacteries.
Examine																				A small section of parchment. If you find the remaining pieces, you could reassemble them and find out what it says.
Options
Backpack																				Restore, Destroy
Values
Value																				100 coins
Alchemy																				Not alchemisable
On death																				Always kept outside dangerous area
Weight																				0 kg
Advanced data
Item ID																				40651
Links																				MRID • recipe

Scraps of scripture are received by breaking open a phylactery, which is an uncommon drop from The Magister. The phylactery can give either 5, 10, 15 or 25 scraps when opened (40%, 30%, 25%, and 5% chance respectively), with an average of 10 scraps obtained from each phylactery.

With 100 scraps and 92 Crafting, it creates the blessings in the following order:

• Blessing of the Sand
• Blessing of the Sea
• Blessing of the Sky

The 3 blessings can then be combined with a khopesh of the Kharidian or an Off-hand khopesh of the Kharidian to create a khopesh of Tumeken or a khopesh of Elidinis respectively.

Cost analysis

Even though the scraps are untradeable, they are worth 259,289.05 coins each if making a khopesh of Tumeken and 227,892.34 coins each if making a khopesh of Elidinis.

	Main-hand	Off-hand
Base item price	Khopesh of the Kharidian 926,783	Off-hand khopesh of the Kharidian 31,467,706
Crafted item price	Khopesh of Tumeken 78,713,499	Khopesh of Elidinis 99,835,407
Profit (ignoring key cost)	77,786,716	68,367,701
Profit (average drop rate)	−82,299,524	−91,718,539
Profit (average drop rate with tier 4 luck enhancer)	−73,405,844	−82,824,859

Given the drop rates of phylacteries and scraps, a player can expect each weapon to take approximately 540 kills to complete, or 510 if a tier 4 luck enhancer is equipped for every kill. This will result in an average upfront cost of 160,086,240 or 151,192,560 respectively if all Keys to the Crossing required for each kill are purchased off the GE.

Products

For an exhaustive list of all products, see here.

Product		Members	Skills	Experience	Materials	GE price
	1 × Blessing of the Sand		92	1,000	100 ×  Scrap of scripture	N/A
	1 × Blessing of the Sea		92	1,000	100 ×  Scrap of scripture	N/A
	1 × Blessing of the Sky		92	1,000	100 ×  Scrap of scripture	N/A

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Phylactery	N/A	5	8/20
Phylactery	N/A	10	6/20
Phylactery	N/A	15	5/20
Phylactery	N/A	25	1/20

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 2 October 2017 (Update):
  • Players with two or four scraps of scripture will receive additional scraps next time they open a phylactery, rounding their total scraps to a figure that's divisible by 5.

• patch 17 July 2017 (Update):
  • The phylactery drop rate from the Magister has been made slightly lower, but the individual scripture drop rates have been adjusted to give a minimum of 5 and a larger average.

• update 3 July 2017 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Originally, players could decide how the blessings could be made. This was changed with an update on 2 October 2017 to ensure that accidental blessings would not be created, and now go in order.