Essence Glutton Buff?

I realize the concept of buffing anything right now, ahead of PoE2, is just about the farthest thing from the dev's minds but...

For many, many leagues I've felt that Essence Glutton was extremely underwhelming, and thought for sure it would've been buffed by now. But it hasn't.

Since the introduction of link skills, it's slightly more useful, given that those skills require a shitton of mana regen to use all the time, and essence glutton happily provides.

Outside of that niche use case, I feel like its rather uninteresting. At most, it provides like... a conditional 4 or 5% ish ES regen per second? It's been a while since I played, but can't you get similar regen from the tree and gear? As well, considering that ES now recharges must faster in general, this is made even more meh. I feel like in any build I hear about or make up myself, its either ignored, or taken if you don't have anything better to grab.

Am I the only one who feels it could use a boost? I might be wrong, not thinking of builds that rely on spam like SRS etc

Maybe remove the "recently" condition from it or something? If you regenerated shield or mana based purely on how many corpses you nom nom, or how fast, that would be a hell of a lot more interesting imo.

I've always been tempted to build around it, but it also felt lackluster compared to the incredible defense that mistress of sacrifice + bone offer can provide, or the huge resists of commander of darkness.


Anyway, looking forward to your thoughts.


Thanks bros