How exactly can you get essences

[Vortexdr]

Curious, apart from drops in loot boxes and buying them how else can i get them? I got Matador recently and would love to use his essence for the resit but no clue how i would go about getting it,,,,

[Koby]

Sometimes you'll get it from your demons in the haunt or by level up, or from fusion, etc. Some are unlocked at certain story points for purchase at the Hollow, etc.

[borizb]

Some sub boss essences can also be found in yellow boxes on the same map.

[HRHV87]

Back in the Switch version I kept the demons with special/desirable skills unleveled so its easier to resummon them and level them from scratch, in this version they drop their essence religiously after exhausting all their skill slots.

[Gammawolf]

Get some grimoires about 5 or 10 will do then save. Now give the grimoires to the demon you want the essence from. Idk if the full moon plays a role in it but just to be sure make sure you are in the full moon. If by the 10th grimoire you don't get the essence reload your save file and try again. If it's a high lvl demon like Metratron make sure you toggle Unforgotten Memories off so the demon don't lvl up all the way to 99. Also give them demon boxes and they sometime give you essences. Make sure you save before doing so so you could reload if you don't get one.

[Monjac]

The game has a " RNG " fixed patterns , if you want to spam reloads , make sure you do something a little different each so it breaks the patterns , teleport to a different places , kill a demon or two.

In general its about 4% to get essence from level up . However some Japanese fans have said the chance to get essence is a little bit higher during Full Moon , so you can try that but I have not personally verified it .

I reloaded 2 times and got a Belzebub essence for EX boon. I wanted one more but I had to reload 35 times to get my next one .

[akkristor]

Originally posted by HRHV87:

Back in the Switch version I kept the demons with special/desirable skills unleveled so its easier to resummon them and level them from scratch, in this version they drop their essence religiously after exhausting all their skill slots.

If you go to the Demon Compendium, you can toggle between 'Custom' and 'Original'. 'Custom' is the stats, level, and skills you have registered, and 'Original' is the base stats, skills, and level.

So you can always easily resummon a demon at it's lowest level, level them back up a few times to try for the essence, and then resummon them.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by HRHV87:

Back in the Switch version I kept the demons with special/desirable skills unleveled so its easier to resummon them and level them from scratch, in this version they drop their essence religiously after exhausting all their skill slots.

you don't need to do that, you can summon demons "original" form through demon compendium, or summon the upgraded skilled up ver you made.

[BiskutMentega]

Sometimes I get essence from talking to demons.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by BiskutMentega:

Sometimes I get essence from talking to demons.

this can occur with the miracle Deathly Aura III.

[Hanzo]

Originally posted by Vortexdr:

Curious, apart from drops in loot boxes and buying them how else can i get them? I got Matador recently and would love to use his essence for the resit but no clue how i would go about getting it,,,,

You could get one from demon you have in party. You need to make them learn all skills (level them up). After that you save your game, use grimoire and load if no essence and try again. There are rumors that full moon has higher chances for essence so you could also trying to give them level up on full moon and repeat until you get it.

[izhuhnal]

Get demon what you want -get few grimores or use demon statues across all maps and do lvl ups until it drop it after. If you want again same essence after using - do it again, unless demon lvl 99/150 lvl cap then release it, summon from compendium normal version of demon and repeat again lvl up.