What Should You Long For in Elin?

If you’ve been exploring the Nefias in Elin, you might have come across the unusual item called the “Fragrance of Goddess.” This item grants you the ability to wish for any in-game item, although its usage isn’t immediately clear.

This guide will explain how to acquire the Fragrance of Goddess, how to utilize it for wishes, and recommend the best items to aim for. We’ll also discuss “Black Cat’s Saliva,” which enhances your wishes. Be cautious, as it’s easy to spoil your wishes, so we’ll highlight common pitfalls to avoid.

How to Obtain the Fragrance of Goddess

As you wander through the world or explore Nefias, you’ll occasionally encounter statues dedicated to various deities. Interacting with these statues offers rewards linked to their respective gods. Here, we are particularly interested in the Luck Goddess, Ehekatl:

• The Luck Statues grant you the item Fragrance of Goddess, which you’ll use to make wishes.
• The Harvest Statue provides a special book that gives an additional feat point when read. You can also give this book to companions.
• The Machine Statue offers a high-tier gene that can be installed at half the usual cost.
• Statues related to Element and Earth provide single-use transmutation hammers useful for altering most items, such as transforming a weapon into a more powerful material.

A practical way to locate these statues is by using a Detector tool while traveling. This gadget beeps when you enter a map that contains a specific item. You can set the detector to focus on either finding Statues of Luck or just interesting items in general.

• Inputting “Statue” into the detector will show the locations of shrines, which are more common but offer less exciting rewards.
• By entering “Statue of,” you’ll mostly find god statues, possibly alongside some decorative statues in towns.
• Inputting “Statue of Luck” will narrow it down to only that type of statue, though you might miss out on other valuable items like Element Hammers and Mani’s Genes.

The detector requires you to take a few steps on the map before it starts beeping to indicate if you’ve found a statue. Remember, it must be actively held in your hand, not just equipped onto your hotbar. Some modded tools may alter how the detector functions for more efficiency.

If you’d like to keep a statue for later—whether for decoration, monetary gain, or to save a wish—you have two options:

• You can occasionally catch golden statues while fishing, but the results are random. In a test run with 1,000 bait and an 80 fishing skill, we only managed to catch two statues of different gods.
• Claiming the land using a land deed will prevent the area from despawning. You can build a new base around the statue you discovered or use a delivery box to transport it to another location. This method does not work in dungeons.

Regardless of how you collect the Fragrance of Goddess, the next step will be to learn how to use it for wishing.

How to Make Wishes

After you’ve acquired the Fragrance of Goddess necessary for making wishes, you need to understand how it works. The item description mentions its connection to the Goddess of Wishes but doesn’t explain the process.

Early in the game, you might have learned to be cautious when drinking from wells and fountains since it could negatively impact your learning capabilities or cause harmful mutations. Now that you can make wishes, you should take every chance to drink from fountains.

You have about a 10% chance of making a wish, so some wells may not yield results. It’s beneficial to use wells located in settlements. The only source of drinking water that won’t work for wishes is the holy well in Noyel, but you can collect water from there for blessing potions and items.

When you drink from a well while holding the Fragrance, a text box may appear, similar to when writing an epitaph or tuning the detector. Type your specific wish in this prompt; the game will then search for an item that matches your request and provide either a generic or enchanted version, depending on the context.

Best Items to Wish For

Having the ability to wish for anything is both exciting and a bit daunting. Given the effort required to make a single wish, you’ll want to ensure you use it wisely.

If you’re playing with an Oath of Destiny, it’s often better to wish for items that yield consistent results. The Palmia Times features notes about wishes made by other adventurers and their results. If you need to, you can reload and try different phrasings for your wish.

Banned and Restricted Wishes

Some wishes yield disappointing results, particularly when trying to acquire wealth:

• Wishing for Oren may provide you with money, but it’s less than what you’d receive by wishing for a valuable item to sell.
• You won’t get enough from wishing for small medals to buy an antibody potion (although you can directly wish for “antibody” to get the potion).
• Wishing for gold nets you only four bars, whereas wishing for a “resident ticket” can grant you three, each valuable enough to exceed that amount.

Additionally, some wishes are banned, either directly or indirectly. Attempting one of these will result in wasted wishes as the Gods will simply laugh:

Finally, some wishes may grant you exactly what you requested, but in a counterproductive manner:

• Wishing for a “Rod of Wish” will result in receiving a rod with zero charges, teaching you a lesson about greed.
• Wishing for genes will yield blank genes lacking traits. While edible, these wished genes have no nutritional benefits.
• Wishing for the gods by name results in (non-functional) statues or figures of them; not all deities have available statues or figurines.
• Wishing for a fertilized egg without specifying the creature will produce a chicken when hatched.

How to Obtain Black Cat’s Saliva

You can only possess one Fragrance at a time and can only make one wish per year. Attempting to obtain a second Fragrance or a new one within the year following your last wish will result in the item “Black Cat’s Saliva.”

This secondary item boosts the effectiveness of your wishes:

• Items you wish for will be crafted with higher quality materials and enchantments. For example, your railgun might be made from real metal instead of grass.
• You may wish for larger quantities of items.
• Items that have levels (like monster balls) will appear at elevated levels.
• Wishing for currencies results in larger drops (though they’re typically not worth wishing for).

The method for collecting Saliva is akin to acquiring your first Fragrance, but it can accumulate. Walk around with your detector in hand and set it to “Statue Of.” You’ll likely gather various beneficial items from different god statues along with those of Ehekatl.

Since the potency of wishes grows with more Saliva, it’s usually wise to spend early wishes on items less influenced by quality and material. For example, the Seven League Boots can be swapped in combat, making their quality less critical beyond their travel speed.