Full Guide: Korthian Gear / 233 ilvl upgrade / reputation / new currency / vendor / 9.1 conduit / 9.1 sockets

This guide contains

What gear can I upgrade and how to get it
What ilvl can I upgrade
The Tiers are tied to reputation
How to farm reputation with The Archivist´s Codex
What is the currency and what does the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor sell?
Best way to farm Cataloged Research
How to start and complete the ”Scholar RohSur´s questline”
How to unlock the other ranks
How to learn Vestige of Origins

What gear can I upgrade and how to get Korthian Gear

You get certain type of gear in 9.1 that you get from Korthia. There is no specific name of this gear, so I will call it Korthian gear.

Korthian gear has the ilvl 200 and can be upgraded all the way to 233 ilvl.

You get Korthian gear from:

Dailies in Korthia
Some of the questgivers rewards Korthian gear.
Weekly quest called Shaping Fate
You complete this by killing mobs, looting chests completing dailies.
This rewards
- Death's Advance War Chest that guaranties a Korthia gear.
- 500 Anima.
- 10 Stygian Ember
- 1 Renown upgrade
Buy a Korthian Armaments that contains a random Korthian gear.
This is sold by Duchess Mynx (Death´s Advance Quartermaster). She is a new reputation vendor in 9.1 located at 63, 23 in Korthia.
Requires Friendly reputation only, and costs 1000 Stygia.
This gear is Bind on Battle.net Account.
In the Maw there are World Events 2 times a week called Covenant Assaults. These have a chance to reward you with Korthian gear.
From Rares in Korthia that has a chance on dropping it.

What ilvl can I upgrade

You can start upgrading Korthian gear once you have unlocked the Archivist Roh-Suir. This is done by completing the Archivist Roh-Suir questline. Check out how to unlock it further down in this guilde.

There are 6 ranks in total and each rank gives a specific ilvl.

You can upgrade Korthian gear at the same place as pvp gear and covenant gear.
You can also upgrade at Assistant Scholar Kahvez located in Keeper´s Respite in Korthia.

The maximum upgrade of this gear is 233.

Rank 2-4 is unlocked when completing the "Scholar Roh-Suir´s questline". Check out the guide on how to do it further down in this guide.

Rank 5 and Rank 6 are unlocked when you get to Tier 6 with Scholar Roh-Suir and buy a speicifc items from him. Check out the guide on how to do it further down in this guide.

Rank 1
200 ilvl

Rank 2
207 ilvl

Rank 3
213 ilvl

Rank 4
220 ilvl

Rank 5
226 ilvl

Rank 6
233 ilvl

The Tiers are tied to reputation

Tier 2 research requires 3000 reputation.

Tier 3 research requires 4500 reputation.

Tier 4 research requires 6500 reputation.

Tier 5 research requires 11000 reputation.

Tier 6 research requires ? reputation.

How to farm reputation with The Archivist´s Codex

You get reputation with them by turning in Relic Fragments and Cataloged Research items.

Relic Fragments

Rares in Korthia
Treasure chests in Korthia
Korthia activities
Some mobs drop but you don´t know which one until later when you buy a special item.
Special Rares
You will fight waves of adds that drops in total around 50 Relics and in the end a big rare that drops around 40 Relics. In total you get more than 100 Relics from this.
Quests
Scattered through Korthia, these quests rewards 500 reputation each. See futher down on farming Cataloged Research where these quests are.

The higher ranks you get the more ways you will have to obtain more relics.

Cataloged Research

It is only pure Cataloged Research items that rewards reputation when you turn them in to Archivist Roh-Suir.

Them item is written the following under the title: "Generate X Cataloged Research when you deliver to Archivist Roh-Suir to further his research into the Archivist Codex.

The "X" can be anything from 5 to 300 Cataloged Reseach.

You get half of the amount Cataloged Research in reputation.

These items are obtained from following:

Korthia Rare loot
Chests in Korthia
Treasures in Korthia
Daily quest rewards in Korthia
Weekly Quest in Korthia
The 2 weekly assaults in the Maw.

At Tier 2
You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Research Report: All-Seeing Crystal, that allows you to see creatures who are carrying Relic Fragments.

You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Korthian Archivists' Key which opens certain locked chests in Korthia that have Relics inside.

You get a quest to locate 4 chests (see the guide here on how to find them).
Once you located them, you get rewarded 2000 reputation in total.

At Tier 3
You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Teleporter Repair Kit that allows access to teleporters that most likely have relics inside (not confirmed).

At Tier 4
You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Repaired Riftkey that allows entrance to Rift Portals in Korthia that most likely have relics inside (not confirmed).

At Tier 5
You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Research Report: Ancient Shrines that allows you to interact with the swords near ancient shrines granting you the ability to reach inaccessible Relic treasures that most likely have relics inside (not confirmed).

You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Research Report: Relic Finding Techniques that grants you a 20% chance to find more relic fragments when looting rares and treasures in Korthia.

What is the currency and what does the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor sell?

The new currency is called Cataloged Research.
You get this currency when turning in Relic Fragments.
1 Relic Fragment gives 1 Cataloged Research.

The vendor unlocks gear based on your reputation with him. You have to enter Tier 2 to be able to start buying stuff.

At Tier 2 reputation

Research Report: All-Seeing Crystal
Use: Allows you to see creatures who are carrying Relic Fragments.
The enemies glow purple.

Then there are mobs called Relic Gatheres that runs awway when you attack them, if you dont kill them in time they portal away, and you cannot cc them.
You can get up to 50 Relics from a mob.
You can see these mobs through walls.
Korthian Archivists' Key
Use: Opens a relic chest in Korthia.

At Tier 3 reputation

Teleporter Repair Kit
Repair ancient teleporters in Korthia, allowing access to hidden vaults and secret locations.

At Tier 4 reputation

Repaired Riftkey
Allows entrance to Rift Portals in Korthia. You can stay within a Rift for 15 minutes.
Recipe: Crafter's Mark of the Chained Isle
Teaches you the recipe for Crafter's Mark of the Chained Isle, an optional reagent that increases the item level of a crafted piece of gear to 230.
Research Report: Careful Examination
Gain 50% more Cataloged Research when turning in Relic Fragments.
Treatise: Recognizing Stygia and its Uses
Loot 10 extra Stygia every time you complete a Maw daily or kill a Maw rare.

At Tier 5 reputation

Research Report: Ancient Shrines
Allows you to interact with the swords near ancient shrines granting you the ability to reach inaccessible Relic treasures.
Treatise: The Study of Anima and Harnessing Every Drop
Loot 15 extra Reservoir Anima every time you complete a Shadowlands World Quest or kill a Shadowlands rare.
Research Report: Relic Finding Techniques
Grants you a 20% chance to find more relic fragments when looting rares and treasures in Korthia.

At Tier 6 reputation

Treatise: Relics Abound in the Shadowlands
Grants you the ability to find relics that grants bonus reputation with the Shadowlands zone factions when completing World Quests and defeating rare creatures in their realms.
Research Report: Adaptive Alloys
Allows you to upgrade your items from Korthia and the Maw to Rank 5 (226 ilvl).
Research Report: First Alloys
Allows you to upgrade your items from Korthia and the Maw to Rank 6 (233 ilvl).
Codex of Untapped Soulbinding – PH
Use: Discover an upgrade to a random Conduit from among your lowest item level Conduits, up to item level 252.
Spatial Realignment Apparatus mk2 NYI
Add a socket to a Shadowlands Season 2 item that does not already have one. Can be used on Helms, Necks, Bracers, Belts, or Rings.
Soaring Razorwing
Mount
Costs 7500 Stygia

Best way to farm Cataloged Research

Cataloged Research is the currency to upgrade Korthian gear and also buy items from the
Archivist Roh-Suir vendor.

There are several ways to farm this.

By turning in Relic Fragments.
See further up in this guide on different ways to farm Relics.
The questline with Archivist Roh-Suir rewards Cataloged Research from different quests.
They can reward 500 Cataloged Research.
Rares have a chance on dropping an item called Ripped Cosmology Chart that can reward up to 300 Cataloged Research.
Chests have a chance on dropping an item called Half-Completed Runeforge Pattern that can reward 20 Cataloged Research.

Once you turn in 150 relics for the first quest, you will get another quest that rewards that you can find quest objects that rewards 250 Cataloged Research each plus 500 rep each.
You can find quests inside treasures in Korthia that rewards 250 Cataloged Research.

Quests that you can find inside caves.
One is in Hope´s Ascent at cave entrance 42,41. See image.
This quest is called Talisman of the Eternal Scholar. This quest rewards 250 Cataloged Research.
Quests that you can find in The Path of Understanding.
At 62,56. See image.
This quest is called Singing Steel Ingot and rewards 250 Cataloged Research.
Another quest: Wispering book binding (Book of Binding): The Mad Witch.
Located in cave entrance 30.55.

When Rank 2

You will now be able to see mobs that are carrying Relics when you buy the item All-Seeing Crystal. These mobs drop a lot more Relics.
Then there are mobs called Relic Gatheres that runs awway when you attack them, if you dont kill them in time they portal away, and you cannot cc them.
You can get up to 50 Relics from a mob.
You can see these mobs through walls.

These mobs can also drop Runic Diagram that you turn into 5 Cataloged Research at Archivist Roh-Sur. THese can also drop higher rewards of Cataloged Research.

When Rank 3

You will be able to repair ancient teleporters.

You can only repair one when there is a rare that spawned inside it.

One of the rares is called Xyraxz, located in 44.94,35.53.

Killing this rare rewards the quest Obelisk of Dark Tidings. Completing this quest rewards 500 Cataloged Research.

Two new quests (Entering the Rift)

Once you reach 4000 reputation after reaching Rank 3, you will get a quest called "Mysterious Rifts" and "Relic Efficiency". These quests unlocks the item "Repaired Riftkey".
This Riftkey lets you enter rifts in Korthia.
Inside a rift is still Korthia, but other types of mobs and little ghosty environment. You will find 4 quests in here that you turn in to the Archivist. Each quest rewards 500 reputation and 500 Cataloged Research.

1) Ciphet of Understanding
2) Unstable Explosive Orb
3) Enigmatic Decrypting Device
4) Book of Binding: The Tormented Sorcerer

How to start and complete the ”Scholar RohSur´s questline”

This questline will unlock so you can upgrade certain outdoor gear all the way up to 233 ilvl.

It says that you have to finish the questline that starts with the quest “Interrupt the Interrogations”

In order to get the quest, you must unlock it. You unlock it by completing chapter 2 in the
Head to location 59, 57 in Korthia (see map below).

Talk to Scholar Ruh-Suir and accept the quest “Interrupt the Interrogations”.
Once completed accept the two new quests “Carving Out a Path” and “The Sundered Staff”

The turn in on these quests are on another location, check map.

Once completed, accept the two new quests “An Infusion of Anima” and “Consulting the Experts”.
Once completed, accept the quest “Hope Ascending” that goes fast to do, then accept the quest “Finding One´s True Purpose”.
Once completed, you get the quest “Establishing the Archive” located near the flightmaster in Korthia.
Accept the quest “Picking up fragments” where you need to collect 150 Relic Fragments.
You find relic fragments from:
* Rares
* Treasure chests
* Korthia activities
* Low drop rate from normal mobs

You also get 2 more quests “Table of Discontent” and “Picking up the Pieces”

“Table of Discontent” rewards Crafter´s Mark of the Chained Isle. You have to loot 250 Intentionally Scattered Pages from enemies and piled papers in Korthia.

“Picking up Fragments” rewards a 200 ilvl gear that cannot be upgraded. You have to collect 50 Relic fragments.

Now you can check his vendor and you have also unlocked the first 3 upgrades (Rank 2/Rank 3/ Rank 4) of quest gear.

How to unlock the other ranks

Completeting the storyline that started with “Interrupt the Interrogations” makes you unlock Rank 2/Rank 3/ Rank 4.

To unlock rank 5 you need Renown 61 and Adaptive Alloys Research available at Tier 6 Research with the Archivist´s Codex. Adaptive Alloys Research is an item that you buy from the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor that is unlocked at Tier 6..

To unlock rank 5 you need Renown 75 and First Alloys Research available at Tier 6 Research with the Archivist´s Codex. First Alloysis an item that you buy from the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor that is unlocked at Tier 6.

How to learn Vestige of Origins

Vestige of Origins is the new Optional Reagent used to craft higher ilvl of the base item level for the legendary gear. So basically for upgrading legendary gear in 9.1

This is a quest reward by completing the quest "Untangling the Sigil".
The reward is actually Tome of Origins which teaches you how to craft a Vestige of Origins.

You get his quest via the main questline in Korthia. When you are on "The last Sigil" chapter.