Anyone else skipping Essence League?

At first I was hyped for the rare mods, but after seeing that Essences are basically the same thing as Chaos orbs it killed it for me. Too much RNG and this will require level 8 Haku/Tora FOR SURE. *sigh* Once again, only the people that have many mirrors and exalts will be having these items with decent rolls and participating in crafting.

Why is there nothing to do to an item past Regal? Hit 3 godly mods with a Regal but missing the primary scaler like flat physical/energy shield - your item is worthless. The risk isn't worth the Exalt RIP. There needs to be a method of getting 4 mods without Exalting; I feel like that is the appropriate point where you can weigh the risk of an Exalt properly.

Basically, this is why I will be in standard this league. Where I stand a chance of actually using a new base type (dirt cheap chaos to spam) and can get right to the new endgame content with face crushing 90+ characters. It will take some serious micros that trump Perandus Portal to get me to play Warbands 2.0
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Honestly, for me the league gimmick is way less important than just having the enforced fresh start. Playing in Standard (other than for testing purposes) is completely unfulfilling because I have everything I could ever want already. So meh, leagues regardless.
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I plan on playing standard this league


Ive actually been hoping for a less than awesome league so i can finally play with all the
stuff i have hoarded and maybe get an uber atziri character and have enough maps to finally play in teir 15 maps.

and all the new stuff with the expac is gonna be end game map stuff.

I'm actually excited to play standard!
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Most people will probably use the essences as controlled regal as you can use them to upgrade a magic item to rare.
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viperesque wrote:
Honestly, for me the league gimmick is way less important than just having the enforced fresh start. Playing in Standard (other than for testing purposes) is completely unfulfilling because I have everything I could ever want already. So meh, leagues regardless.


IDK for me ive been playing Leagues now so long that like you ive pretty much got EVERYTHING i could ever need to realize all the builds ive got in mind so i think this might be the league i take a break from the fresh start and go back and do some crazy stuff with all the things ive acquired in these past leagues.

Ive been waiting for a league that doesn't have so much i feel like im really missing out on too much to not play it. This one since its all about crafting and im not too much into crafting gear personally seems like the perfect opportunity to enjoy all that stuff i have put back.

Strokes for folks i know but for me ill still get to enjoy the new endgame stuff which was what im most excited for anyway so it seems perfect for me to take a break from the fresh start and go perfect some of my old builds and make a few new ones to perfect for a couple months. \m/

Edit: not to mention my Standard Stash is getting a bit out of control... it NEEDS some attention for sure.
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Last edited by Demonoz on Aug 12, 2016, 7:15:30 PM
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IceDeal wrote:
Most people will probably use the essences as controlled regal as you can use them to upgrade a magic item to rare.

The revealed essences only apply to white/rares though?
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IceDeal wrote:
Most people will probably use the essences as controlled regal as you can use them to upgrade a magic item to rare.



sadly i dont think they work this way, if they did i would be more excited for the league. Perhaps we should suggest this before it kicks off? It only says upgrades a normal to a rare or reforges a rare, doesnt say it will work at all on a magic item.

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