Essence spawn rate needs a buff and Breaches could use a nice QoL

Essences

For me during essence league, the best part, was level 1-50ish. Essences really closed the gearing gap.
Sure, at end game people were churning out some insane (mostly overpowered) gear pieces. This was especially because the Woe values were too high and as such every couple days a new "#1 ES chest" would appear.

Now I understand that Essence league essence spawn rate can't nearly be as common as essence as a core feature. However this is my third character and at level 61 I've only seen 1 essence pack. Relevance? Well, I like progression. I make my own builds, and as a result, I like to see how it progresses from act to act, so there is no rush for me. What this means is that if an essence pack had spawned I would have seen it.

On my first character I encountered a 4 essence pack while mapping,Tier 5 essence. Well I couldn't even corrupt it because I never encountered a single essence of corruption from 1-91. I checked poe.trade and saw that it was around 5c and my immediate thought was "Hell nah.".

I feel like the endgame spawn rate can be buffed slightly and the early game (much lower tiered essences AND essence of corruption) drop rate needs to be significantly buffed. Maybe if you found one in every 5 zones that would be great as apposed to never.

Breaches

Well, I've finally found all 5 breachlords in random breaches. What I've come to realise is that two things need to be changed in order to make it more likely for us to be able to complete this challenge.

1) Please give breaches (non breachstone breaches obviously) a fixed size. Something similar to elreon missions but obviously would have to be a lot bigger. Why? Well from what I've noticed through farming breaches for the lords is that sometimes when the Lord spawns, because the expanse of the beach is so large you don't even know one is there until a short few seconds before it closes. This would be a massive QoL especially in indoor areas. I've noticed that many times they spawn and are stuck in another room because of the layout.

2) point one ties in perfectly with two. One of two things needs to be changed. The lords either need to be given full screen line of sight or spawn directly next to players. This will specifically help persons trying to find Tul and Esh. They will literally stay off screen and amidst the cluster of projectiles and mobs being hurled at you it really is hard to tell if it's just regular mobs or the lord attacking you. From what I've experienced Uul and Xoph are not a problem as they are melee based and will come directly to you. Not quite sure about chayula, spawned her once but I just happened to be at that end of the breach when she spawned.

I feel essences became...medicore imo

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I_NO wrote:

I feel essences became...medicore imo

Woe specifically :P? I feel it's ina good place now can craft "good/greta gear, not insane gear anymore. However on a whole? yes. I don't see the point of an essence tab, if you don't get enough essence drops to put into them.

They have already been buffed in terms of spawn-rate. They are in a good place, right now. Not too common (making all the other orbs redundant) and not too rare as well. Makes you feel good when you find a pack of frozen mobs.