Open up the sentient weapon panel, then drag a filigree from your inventory onto an open filigree slot.Filigree slots are shown below the large gem on the sentient weapon panel.

Once you have a sentient weapon, you can add filigrees to it to grant it additional power

Drag your sentient gem to the square on the top right of the panel to create your new sentient weapon.Open this panel (as shown on the right) and drag the weapon you want to modify to the square at the top left of the panel.If you mouse-hover over the red square, a blue icon is added to it with the words 'Modify your sentient items'.On the right hand side of your inventory panel there is a red square (located in the middle, above the pet stable's 'paw' link).Once you have both items in your inventory, you can create a new sentient weapon: As a result, slotting a sentient jewel into these items will make them minimum level 20.) (* So far, three items have been released which unintentionally accepted sentience: Bone Crusher, Copper Dwarven War Axe and Squid Smasher while Bone Crusher was initially allowed to slide the last two were level 4 and thus so potentially game-breaking that a patch had to be introduced. an eligible weapon (ML 20* or higher) that accepts sentience (see below).

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