After Essence League, Will essence drop in standard?

my guess is yes, it will be in core game, of course in a tuned down version.

because I feel like the league was a test for balancing between uniques and rares for the whole game. Since GGG removed eternals (what was good) high end item crafting became... let's say near impossible, and then path of uniques went stronger every step. If essence doesn't hit the core game, the league end will create the biggest ever amount of good legacy items which just seems irresponsible.

These essences will not be introduced in the core game. I enjoyed the league but you have to agree it made orbs of alchemy and chaos orbs almost completely pointless when it comes to gear crafting. Additionally these orbs are not beginner friendly. I can already imagine the look on a new player's face when he finds one of these at the start of the game. That wall of text.


They'll probably become legacy like talismans (Talisman and Essence league mechanics are pretty similar actually) or very maybe a reduced spawn behind a Zana mod but I really dont think these will become part of the main game as prophecies did.

I skipped Essence partly because I dislike crafting, and more so because some of the Essences were stupidly powerful.

IF GGG fixes things like Decay, which currently is better than a level 20 Essence Drain....Then I wouldn't mind it in the core game. The part I mind is the OP as hell modifiers that should never have even crossed their mind to enter the game.

Decay is certainly not the only one, but it is a very clear example. Getting a free cast of a 20+ spell, basically, on every hit? That's WAY stronger than it should be. Like, people said CoC was broken....This is taking a 6l setup...And just adding, for free, a L20 spell, without needing to crit, needing to use an attack, or needing to drop support gems to fit in a CoC setup. IDK WTF they were thinking.

Seriously if GGG fixes that, then making crafting easier with Essences would be a benefit, in my eyes. If they add it to the core game WITH all that OP BS as is...I'm not the only one who will have issues with that.

Zana mod in most cases.

Essence Orbs stays on core game with some revised mechanics and drop rate

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1770577

Thanks GGG

Yes they will drop .

sweet! i love the essences

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Xaaz23 wrote:

Nobody is going to pay the currency on a Zana mod to take the chance at getting a low tier essence in their map. If they made it a Zana mod, they would have to make it Screaming, at a bare minimum, for anyone to use it.

Get rid of the laggy ass shrines and replace them with the essences in the core game.

Rory said they were considering lowering the encounter rate but making high tier essences more common, if they were added to the main game. I assume they'd leave the higher essences in Zana mods