Only keep the highest 3 Essences in game - remove all others

Anything below the top 3 tiers of essences is usually hidden by the loot filter (for good reasons).

In order to combat clutter I suggest to remove all essences except for the top 3 tiers and to be honest: you should remove all of them and just leave the top tier.

+1

... you obviously don't use essence while leveling.

your suggestion hurts that, so I vote NO to this, also you can upgrade the lower essences to better ones at 3:1.


also if your hiding them it won't change anything for you, if they remove some essences they will adjust rates so its about the same as currently.

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dorkdude2 wrote:

... you obviously don't use essence while leveling.

your suggestion hurts that, so I vote NO to this, also you can upgrade the lower essences to better ones at 3:1.


also if your hiding them it won't change anything for you, if they remove some essences they will adjust rates so its about the same as currently.

1.) I (can/could) use them but they are close to irrelevant for leveling. Also: what is "leveling" to you? To lvl 60, 90, 100? The low ones are always close to irrelevant.

2.) You don't have to upgrade them 3:1 if u slightly increase the drop-rate of the top 3 and allow to use them at earlier char levels. It's a waste of time upgrading them but I understand it pleases the urge of some people to click things.

3.) Hiding them doesn't solve the issue of a flood of items slowing down your (our) game. The overall cluttering of the game needs to be toned down massively and item-filters are just helping with the tip of the ice berg.

I like essences during leveling. I don't consider it to be anything but an alchemy orb, but still, it's alchemy orb during leveling.

When leveling as melee, inefficient as it might be, getting flat phys as guaranteed roll from essence is good. If you are lucky, you get empty prefix to craft cheapo %phys and be fine for another 5-10 levels.

From in-map perspective, the fact that essences are same as other in-map mechanics - a bit undervalued without any atlas passives, it is by design.

Yes, you ignore low essences, most of us do. I don't find it to be worth any change.

terrible idea. please ignore, GGG.

I think they should add fragments for different tiers of essence, so that player could feel weight of those items.

is this a troll topic ?

I use essences, granted not a lot, but still at league start. Get a white item, essence, and maybe it fix your slot. And besides, why do you even care, you see a couple essences here and there and it annoys you really ?

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Antigegner wrote:

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dorkdude2 wrote:

... you obviously don't use essence while leveling.

your suggestion hurts that, so I vote NO to this, also you can upgrade the lower essences to better ones at 3:1.


also if your hiding them it won't change anything for you, if they remove some essences they will adjust rates so its about the same as currently.

1.) I (can/could) use them but they are close to irrelevant for leveling. Also: what is "leveling" to you? To lvl 60, 90, 100? The low ones are always close to irrelevant.

2.) You don't have to upgrade them 3:1 if u slightly increase the drop-rate of the top 3 and allow to use them at earlier char levels. It's a waste of time upgrading them but I understand it pleases the urge of some people to click things.

3.) Hiding them doesn't solve the issue of a flood of items slowing down your (our) game. The overall cluttering of the game needs to be toned down massively and item-filters are just helping with the tip of the ice berg.

What need to be toned down are irrelevant gear with shit stats on them, not the essences or any other usefull crafting mats... I use essences while leveling and some of my items before act 4 are essence crafted. So, no need to delete lower essences...

SOLUTION: (but I mentioned that already...guess nobody read it)

I don't want to take anything away from you guys. The top 3 essences could be spread out more over the lower char levels so that the lowest of the three (for instance) could be used much earlier in the game (stat adjustments needed of course). This way of handling essences would compensate in a much more efficient and meaningful way for the removal of the other, lower tiers.

resulting effect:
- improved and meaningful impact on your char-performance (better results stat-wise)

further resulting effects:
- incentive to trade early for them
- incentive to trade them away as means of making early currency
- no incentive to hide them with loot-filter
- removed some unnecessary clutter (yes, I know there is other clutter)



About the arguments I heard here - my counter:

1.) you can't target farm low essences so it's just luck to get what u need (in most cases you don't).

verdict: irrelevant


2.) you don't trade for low essences - almost nobody does and the weird oddball who does is not worth mentioning.

verdict: irrelevant


3.) they have little to no impact on early gaming, stat-wise - absolutely not, guys. You are always better off with cheap uniques or whatever rare u can either buy or pick up along the way.

verdict: irrelevant


4.) they only have minor use in races. But again, since you would either need to trade for them or be able to target-farm them, (which you don't because trading cost too much time during races and/or is not possible anyways, and target farming low ones isn't possible) they are close to useless.

verdict: close to irrelevant


P.S.: yes, I know it's not a big issue but the game suffers from so incredibly many smaller issues that's it's time to start somewhere - it needs streamlining.

here is another one of the gazilllion small problems: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3005582