Essence monsters not dropping anything

I've been experienceing a bug, where essence monsters don't drop anything, when killed.

I've never seen anything like it before, and I'm an avid essence farmer. This bug is also not consistent. I normally get most of the essences to when running maps, with maybe 1 essence monster that drops nothing, but I just had a map where 3 out of the 6 essence monsters I killed, didn't drop anything.

Needles to say it's kinda messing up my economy, as I'm only just making more currency than I'm investing, because of the amount of essences I'm losing.
Last bumped on Aug 17, 2024, 6:26:50 AM
I can confirm this is happening. Was watching a friend of mine kill a pack of essence monsters and we confirmed nothing dropped.

There is a reddit thread confirming that this is happening to others as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1bv8dav/essences_now_sometimes_drop_no_essences/
Same here. Started noticing after the first patch of the league (not sure if just a coincidence).
Just ran a T15 Channel with 5 Essence monsters and just ONE of them dropped its essences.
Also verified it has nothing to do with Remnants being used or the tier of the essence, it's seemingly random.

Edit: just ran a couple with Essence scarabs and all of them dropped. Myabe sth to do with Allflame Embers affecting the trapped monsters?
Last edited by Asrlex on Apr 9, 2024, 5:04:21 AM
I just had this happen as well, I'd used an essence scarab and the essence map craft option and two of the four essence mobs on the map failed to drop anything at all. I'm kind of afraid to use any more essence scarabs or the map craft again until it's patched to be honest.
Seeing the same thing happen. Paying attention this current map looks like it's allflame gorrillas that are essence mobs, don't drop anything on death, no loot at all.
Happenned to me just now. I thought it was a fluke but looks like I'm not alone.

Edit: I'd like to had that it's not my filter hiding it.
Edit 2: Adding that the only thing I change on the map is having a pack of monster drop scarabs. Anything else was normal like more life or chance to evade, or power cahrge on hit...
Last edited by Simonie on Apr 17, 2024, 7:41:19 PM
This is caused by using allflame certain allflame embers. I don't have an exhaustive list of which are bugged, but allflames giving either tattoes, tainted currency or expedition currency seems to work fine - but the ones giving catalysts and scarab are definitely bugged, and will cause essence monsters to poof out of existence and drop blue garbage loot.
Last edited by cavemandiary2 on Apr 17, 2024, 8:21:33 PM
Double post, delete.
Last edited by cavemandiary2 on Apr 17, 2024, 8:21:54 PM
Using zero allflames and it still happens upwards of every few maps.
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Using zero allflames and it still happens upwards of every few maps.

In your case, it's your gloves causing it.

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