popsicle essence broken?

[elonashooter]

While it's neat in principle, the fact that it can e.g. allow cats to be turned into 8X productive wildcards is perhaps just a teeny bit much?

Or turn curses into no-downside worth 32 gold each (from the + 1 value and 8x)

Or to use the instant ramen essence to get 9 items?

Would be far more balanced if it only affected essences that give lump sums of money.

[bortman3000]

8x is nothing, I just used popsicle with 13 cats and the black cat essence to end up with ~30,000x wildcards. I think essences are probably too OP as is, especially since you can stack their effects more than once. I've won 5 straight games after the update without really having to do anthing special.