How do I get more Life Essences?

[Lampros]

Can these be only obtained in battle?

[Calico-Jack]

You can also get Life Essence from deconstructing mutators -

however can I ask why feel you need more?

[Harkonnen]

u can also obtain it in bigger amounts after capturing fortresses. Like 3 times bigger. Sometimes u are rewarded with them additionally (which is a random resource as a reward) for saving villagers from monsters/bandits in encounters. But 90% of them u gather through battles, aye.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Calico-Jack:

You can also get Life Essence from deconstructing mutators -

however can I ask why feel you need more?

So I can hog them and level them by combining them ;)

Originally posted by Sharlatan:

u can also obtain it in bigger amounts after capturing fortresses. Like 3 times bigger. Sometimes u are rewarded with them additionally (which is a random resource as a reward) for saving villagers from monsters/bandits in encounters. But 90% of them u gather through battles, aye.

Ah, ok!

[Calico-Jack]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Originally posted by Calico-Jack:

You can also get Life Essence from deconstructing mutators -

however can I ask why feel you need more?

So I can hog them and level them by combining them ;)

Fair enough - I should add dismantling a mutator only returns half the inital value though - so if you've combined a mutator you won't get anything back for the other mutarors used. Like sacrificing party members for blood or flesh - it's there but keep it for emergencies.

A tip for using less life essence is through static mutator mechanics. The full skinny on scaling vs static here

https://urtuk.gamepedia.com/Mutators

But essentially statics become traits when they're absorbed and any bonuses and maluses they had when equipped disappear.

So say you want your entire party to have Lightfoot as a trait - keep multiples around but only level one and use that on the same party member until they are close to absorbing it. You'll get a dialogue telling you how long the process takes, swap the levelled one for an unlevelled one at the last minute. Then rinse and repeat. Doing this with all statics you want on multiple party members will free up Life Essence for other mutators.