Let all essences reroll rares

I'm trying out this Kalandra patch; despite the bad press. I just realized tthat the low eend essences don't let you reroll rares. This makes all these low essences nigh useless imo. It's hard to find good bases and to get good rares out of them; and in acts it's not worth spending that long to create items anyways, since you get newer better items from higher levels quite often.

The Lake gave me a chance to pick up a bunch of essences; but having like 30 bottom tier essences doesn't really help me much at all. The odds of any individual roll actually being an improvement are'nt that good; and if I can't reroll a good base, then it's even harder to find anything worthwhile. As is I'm going to have to put them on bad bases or they won't get used at all. And i'm doubtful even that's worthwhile since it means taking up time to pickup all sorts of bad bases when I could be piicking up rares or progressing through the acts.

If I could reroll rares; at least I could find one good base,e, quality it up, then run througugh my essences.

I strongly agree with this. It makes no sense that only the highest tier of essence can reroll rares...if anything the lower tiers should reroll rares and the highest tier should NOT. The ones an "average" player spams are not the deafening essences...and by the time you can use and get deafening you also have enough scourings to actually do the two-step reroll. pre-deafenings, you do NOT have the scours.

Absolutely.

Its horrible design to have low tier essences just to merge them in higher ones.
They are not shards and thus should have some tweaks to be usable in a proper way and proper time in character progression.


Not fun to drop low essences just to ignore them or use them as shards for higher ones.


Hope they read this.

My tip for the low tier essences? Check the vendors, for they have often good crafting bases. And don't be too picky about the white drop bases, for if the sockets are right, then sometimes you can alch/essence them.

But to react to the suggestion: If the low tier essences could reroll rares, then they would equal to chaos orbs in perceived value. While alchemy orb is the more common drop in the campaign, I'd wager low tier essences work like alchemy orbs because that's balanced with what other things you can get at the time. There would be no sense to not use them all low tier essences. Even essences that have a mod that is not beneficial to your build would still be useful, for it can still roll other mods that are useful.

Now if you have 0 low tier essences because you've used them for crafts, then was there any weight, cost or choice for the essences? It would be an automation then to craft the basic gear, and I guess GGG has some opposing ideas for it. But do understand that I also feel it when I can't find a good crafting base when I really need an upgrade, so I'm sharing the pain as well. :D

Low end Essences are mainly used for leveling gear as you go. Getting more of them from Lake is probably an oversight as they are probably meant to be useless(I guess you can throw them on jewelry for chaos recipe but aint nobody doing that in 2022).

I'm all for completely removing them from campaign and have them spawn only in maps and as T5+.

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Low end Essences are mainly used for leveling gear as you go. Getting more of them from Lake is probably an oversight as they are probably meant to be useless(I guess you can throw them on jewelry for chaos recipe but aint nobody doing that in 2022).

I'm all for completely removing them from campaign and have them spawn only in maps and as T5+.

I am very much against that. Nothing feels better to encounter a muttering essence of hatred as early as submerged passage, slap it on a bow and have a weapon that will take care of you for the rest of the act. This is exceptionally useful at league start, where you have nothing, when those provide the equivelent of alchemy orbs.

Awful take, honestly