Feedback: Essence, Skins, Balancing

Hello everyone,

I am a player who can invest around 100-200 hours per season in POE2. So far I'm having a lot of fun with the game, but there are 3 points I'd like to address explicitly here and I'm curious to know what you think:

Essence-Crafting: I really like crafting with essences. I would just like it if you could work with it more consistently in the early game and get significantly more Greater Essences from the maps onwards. My idea for this would be: There is an essence monster type that drops “normal” essences. The imprisoned essence monsters then always give Greater Essences.

Skins: I find the purchasable skins far too extroverted and therefore uninteresting for me. However, the skins of the weapons and armor in the game look great. I'd like to be able to change them according to my preferences, regardless of the equipment I'm currently wearing. It would be great if there could be an MTX package that would give me access to all the skins in the game. Then I can, for example, carry the spear with the best stats, but choose the skin of a spear that looks better to me.

Balance during a league in Early Access: I would like to see a lot more balance adjustments made between two content patches. In my opinion, GGG can test more and ask the community for feedback. Also as a separate “test league” so as not to destroy anyone's build.

So far my ideas and wishes.

Thanks GGG for a great game and I'm sure it will be even better.

Best regards