Blood Crucible
This article describes historical game content.
After the end of Scourge league, the Scourge mechanic is not yet added to the core game.
requires a key of madness and pain.
Not in game
Drop level: 1Metadata
Item class: Quest Item
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/QuestItems/Hellscape/BloodCrucible
Blood Crucible is a quest item for Scourge league's 
A Glimpse Beyond as well as 
Thirst for Blood.
Mechanic
After inserting the item into the player character (by clicking the UI), the item added another slot in the player's inventory. (Default key bind to open the slot in PC: '). Player can insert rare item (unique if allocated Blood Crucible's skill Alternate History) into the slot, corrupted or not, and the Blood Crucible acts like an incubator that after certain Scourge monster kills in the Nightmare realm, adding one beneficial Scourge implicit and one detrimental implicit modifiers into the item by default. The tiers of these implicit can be affected by Anomalous Aura and Stabilising Energy skills of the Crucible, so that when the item is transformed, the beneficial implicit have a chance to be one tier higher for using Anomalous Aura or the detrimental implicit is one tier lower for using Stabilising Energy.
Depends on item level, item can be transformed up to 3 times. The item would have a tag "Scourged (Tier #)" on the bottom on the item description to show the item has been transformed how many times. Note that item that shown "Scourged (Tier 1)" or "Scourged (Tier 2)" can be dropped from Scourge monsters. Those item cannot be transformed 3 times despite the Scourge implicit is not added by the player using Blood Crucible.
Upon entering map, the player would received another quest item 
Dream FurnaceDream FurnaceThe minds of men are but motes
on a sea of infinite madness.
by entering nightmare realm from map for the first time, which adds another slot into the Blood Crucible UI to Scourge maps. Some Blood Crucible skill are in fact affecting map via the Dream Furnace slot.
Skills
| Chaotic Adornment (5) | Twisted Metal (5) | Murderous Desecration (5) |
| Alternate History (1) | Trypophobia (5) | Stitched Wounds (5) |
| Golden Blood (5) | Anomalous Aura (5) | Stabilising Energy (5) |
| Cursed Organs (1) | Warped Sluice (5) | Fervent Dreams (5) |
| Restless Nightmares (1) | Strange Forces (5) | Intensifying Emulsion (5) |
Players can gain 63 skill points to allocate all the skills. However, when the player is levelling, a threshold of skill points must be spent on top in order to unlock the bottom row of the skill.
Gallery
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Full in-game tooltip
Related items
- Dream FurnaceDream FurnaceThe minds of men are but motes
on a sea of infinite madness. 
Viscera CauldronViscera CauldronFlesh can be as clay to the properly motivated artist.
Version history
| Version | Changes |
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| 3.17.0 |
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| 3.16.0b |
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| 3.16.0 |
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