Roughly how many magical essence can you get in game?

[jasta85]

So, I did my first play through and purposely skipped quite a bit of side content and some companion quests to leave more for my next play through, but I only collected enough magic essence to craft 1 or 2 items from the storyteller (I know crafted the cloak that is linked to your mythic path, can't remember if I created a second item). But as most of the storyteller items require magic essence I'm wondering how much you can expect to collect in game if you do most content, just so I can plan ahead on what items to use them on.

[Stormsong]

I can't give you an exact number, but I crafted all of the storytellers items including the secret item tied to an achievement and still had essences left over.

I assume it's that way so that if someone chooses different paths or misses a few of the more out of the way essences they can still complete the Storyteller's list.

[jasta85]

oh wow, that's a lot. Do you get some from the crusade system, I had auto crusade on for my first playthrough as well since it was buggy, so whatever you get from that I missed out on.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by jasta85:

So, I did my first play through and purposely skipped quite a bit of side content and some companion quests to leave more for my next play through, but I only collected enough magic essence to craft 1 or 2 items from the storyteller (I know crafted the cloak that is linked to your mythic path, can't remember if I created a second item). But as most of the storyteller items require magic essence I'm wondering how much you can expect to collect in game if you do most content, just so I can plan ahead on what items to use them on.

The numbers of items have been changed over the time. In one of the patch notes it was mentioned, that before that certain patch there were not enough items to craft everything. But instead too many elven notes.