What am I missing...

So I've got an Essence Scarab of Stability in my map device and some remnants of corruption..

I come upon an Essence mob with 8 essences.
2 Deafening, 3 Shrieking (all purples!), 1 Screaming, and 2 Wailing.

The flavor text on the Scarab of Stability states:
"Using a Remnant can only result in upgrading or transforming"

Which, I assume, meant that it would either upgrade each essence by 1 tier except for the Deafening, or transform those that can be transformed (the purples).

Instead, when I use the Remnant the result is 8 wailing essences of worthless junk. That is a transformation (typical POE - from treasure to trash 99.9% of the time) but it is certainly NO 'upgrade'. I've never actually seen anything get upgraded at all using Remnants.

So, WTF is going on? Have Remnants become entirely worthless with a scarab that does not work appropriately?

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seaman wrote:

Crystal Resonance?

Say on? Explain?

Yes, I have that passive. It works as described.

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And that was the problem.
Using that passive generated more challenge and more essences from bosses but made it effectively impossible to create remnant essences.

Removing it corrected the problem.