Are Essence Monsters Supposed to be harder than bosses?

I had to work all weekend, so I'm a bit behind and thankfully missed a decent amount of the shitshow that was leage launch. I'm finally getting into red maps and essence monsters are quit literally unkillable in some situations, and are ALWAYS harder than any map boss I've faced thus far. Is this expected? As an SSF player, how am I supposed to get started crafting my gear if I struggle to kill essence monsters?

GGG please take another look at essence mods combination with archnemesis, there has to be something wrong here right?

the league was extensively tested so this must be intended....

Are essence, harvest, blight, random-rares supposed to be significantly harder than bosses?

I actually welcome the difficulty change IF they would create a reason not to just ignore these rares.

Yup. They need to give more.

Yes, this patch even now after several changes, all rares are significantly harder than bosses.
Best when boss spawns rares like lava lake / sunken city, and rares takes 5x time to kill as the boss.

Essence monsters were always stronger than bosses. Bosses werent hard for a while, and even with old mods 6-7 essence monster could wreck you.

not only essence monsters, the harvest monsters are also insane now with the damn archnemesis mods. the monsters like essence and harvest have been buffed already by their own mechanism, and now double-buffed by archnemesis... put all my atlas points into harvest and now find that I can't fight the harvest monsters, really enjoy this league.

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chungexintu wrote:

not only essence monsters, the harvest monsters are also insane now with the damn archnemesis mods. the monsters like essence and harvest have been buffed already by their own mechanism, and now double-buffed by archnemesis... put all my atlas points into harvest and now find that I can't fight the harvest monsters, really enjoy this league.

ya that's my issue too. I'm ssf and I'm putting my points here to craft my gear but I can't even complete the encounters so I'm kind of lost right now...

Example from last league -


Result - there were 2 duplicated ones and I managed to rush one, while the other costed me 3 portals(yet I tried to finish my Einhar mission first).

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Aynix wrote:

Essence monsters were always stronger than bosses. Bosses werent hard for a while, and even with old mods 6-7 essence monster could wreck you.

Its this honestly, I think some players are only just coming across mega deafening essence stack mobs and thinking they are worse this patch they aren't really, I mean they can be but 5x shrieking makes any monster very juiced. Even worse if its an Einhar beast.