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The Occultist, as announced in an earlier Diablo 4 blog, will deal with extracting the Essence of Legendary items and Imbuing Essence to other items.
These essences are physical items with their own inventory tab so the functionality is likely different from Diablo Immortal where you can apply an extracted Essence as often as you want.