What are your tips on farming essence?

[Scar]

I need basic essence mainly to repair stuff but tips for others would be nice too, I know about encampments, fae portals etc etc just looking for the most efficient way.

[subwaybananas]

Get fast as possible to min. T1-essence realms. Than farm T1 or higher and extract them to the one for repairing.

For stump essence farming: Make a new map at the highest possible score you can handle (difficult and/or higher base map). Go to the fae tower to reveal all pois. The tower themself are one of the biggest single essence boost. Than look for the fae portal (not that one at your entry portal). Its in a cave. Its the 2nd big essence boost. Make every poi on the way.

Leave the map, reset it and do it again (or another).

The essence tiers are limit to the score, i don´t know the breaks, when one tier ends and another start (with lower amount, but in extraction you get much more). But higher score maps = more essence is the base rule.

If you aren´t in reach of T1 essence, farm the small stones and make marbles is a good source for your first fast essences without harvesting tons of grass. Or make mass of papers. It has also a good work/essence ratio.

[william_es]

Tier 1 is antiquarian-astrolabe-provisioner.

Tier 2 starts at herbarium-gloom-hunt.

Tier 3 is ascended antiquarian and above. Pretty much any ascended realm is tier 3.

You can break down higher tier essences for TONS of essence dust. I broke down 100 blue tier 2 and got 21,000 essence dust. Once you get your gear strong enough, you can go into lower realms, reset the whole place and start an "extreme" difficulty realm. You will get a much higher amount of essence, and depending on your gear's strength, might be able to simply steamroller everything in your way.

Last night I needed blue tier 2, I started a new realm, and had 1000+ in about 30 minutes. But I came in with gear good enough for ascended hunt realms on extreme.

[PewPr]

Buy and extract water bottles from the traders if you need T1

[subwaybananas]

Originally posted by PewPr:

Buy and extract water bottles from the traders if you need T1

its fixed

[xitooner]

To farm essence; bring a transmuter with you and set it up when you arrive. Put Treasury (or Treasury Eminent) card in it right away. Then head for the fae Tower because that gives the most essence on the map (and you JUST boosted it). Clearing it gives you the ability to set a card in the realm (which you already did) and has the bonus of telling you where everything else on the map is, so you can go do your favorite ones right away.

If you are good enough at it to create the realm in Hard/Extreme, it will give you even higher essence.

And when before you close this realm down... jump in one last time and recover that transmuter. You'll be needing it for the next realm.

For Tier3... its the vaults in the watch for me. The personal vault is nerfed to not give you as much essence per playthrough even though its EXACTLY like the watch. Only way to make it pay out decent is to play it on extreme... and why would you when you can do 1500+ T3 an hour in the watch breezing through with others helping?

[Resolute]

1 Tier 3 essence = 2,500 dust

Fishing gives you around 500 T3 essences per hour in an ascended realm with a Magic Bait Charm on your Fishing Rod.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by subwaybananas:

Originally posted by PewPr:

Buy and extract water bottles from the traders if you need T1

its fixed

To clarify the "fix" to this exploit: You used to pay 10 dust for 4 bottles, which extracted into 40 dust... now the price has been changed to 45 dust.

[Scar]

Thanks

[GrailQuest]

I basically always use the Treasury Card in every realm.
Early game I did a bit of rock farming to convert into marble ammo and then extract but so far it looks like the Treasury card is helping me keep up.

[Ceji]

have not seen a lot of mention about this but after doing a fae tower find the fae portal that now appears on map and do that. there are also mining and other essence to get where that fae portal is located. Depending on what difficulty level you do the realm on you should be able to get 200 to 300 essence per run of fae tower and fae portal.