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The Nephalem Cube is used to turn items into crafting materials which are used to train one of the artisans. Now all your junk magical and rare items into useful crafted items. The cube shows up next to your Cauldron of Jordan on your character/inventory tab.
When you click the Nephalem Cube it allows you to salvage crafting materials from your unwanted weapons, armor, rings, runes, and amulets. The process destroys the original item but yields a variety of materials that grow more powerful as increasingly rare items are salvaged. Thus, common items yield common crafting materials, but more rare and valuable items will yield potent mystical substances that can be used to create correspondingly mighty items and enhancements. You'll want to keep a well-stocked hoard of crafting materials, because there's great potential in those salvaged scraps.
With every piece of junk that drops you have to decide if you want gold or crafting goods, either way even bad drops help you on your quest for good items.
