Tier 1 Essence block at higher tiers

[Qhue]

I'm at the point now where I am doing 'Hunt' level domains (70) and getting fabled tier 2 crafting materials, but when I craft new items using them I'm stuck because I no longer acquire Tier 1 Essence and thus can't upgrade them to Uncommon.

Now I have to downgrade to a lower Tier and farm garbage in order to get enough Tier 1 Essence to power my new stuff. It feels bad.

[RavensDaemon]

Yes, part of the core game play. You can reset the Realm and increase the difficulty to get higher rewards and higher level enemies that feel like they are not garbage. Astrolabe Extreme is 70 and you get T1 for POIs.

[Red]

The essence system needs a rework

There needs to be a way to trade High tier essence for lower tiers, not only that if you dismantle something you have spent T3 essence to upgrade still you still only get the basic essence. big rip

[Centuron]

So you're annoyed that you didn't farm enough T1 essence despite knowing that whenever you remake equipment and need to upgrade it, you need T1 essence. Nice.

The farming is really a non issue since you can have multiple portals and just leave one set to a weaker realm. Since your gear is better, you can also just increase the difficulty getting more essence faster.

[Landover]

They said they didn’t want to farm the lower level essence. I agree on a breakdown essence system T3-2-1-0.

Originally posted by Red:

The essence system needs a rework

There needs to be a way to trade High tier essence for lower tiers, not only that if you dismantle something you have spent T3 essence to upgrade still you still only get the basic essence. big rip

100%

[OffsidesOcelot]

I've been wasting a bunch of time at the workbench spam-crafting refined hunting knives. They take one ingot and one lumber, which would break down by themselves into 2 essence, but you can extract 20 from the completed knife.

I haven't gone spading yet to see if there's anything more efficient, but having a chest full of shimmering means it's easy to generate more T1 whenever I run out.

I would love a way to convert higher-tier essences directly into T1. Once you hit T4, T2 and T3 are only used for intermediate enhancements.

Also, upper tier meat/bones/pelt should generate more essences when extracted, rather than just yielding the same single T1 essence as anything in the Abeyance realm.

[☥ Docdra ☥]

Am I missing something - I thought you could just convert any essence higher than T1 INTO T1 essence...? Am I reading this all wrong - did OP mean something else?

[OffsidesOcelot]

If there's a way to do it I haven't found it yet, whether in inventory or on benches. Nothing in the Codex mentions how to convert either.

They said Hopeful essence can be converted when the latest patch came in, but I haven't seen that yet; it does translate 1:1 with Tier 4 essence if you want to make infusions, though.

[Dev Rossik]

Open your inventory and go to the essence tab. Choose any higher-tier essence, right-click, and select "Extract". I can confirm this works for T2 and the Hope essence. I also assume it works for higher levels.

[☥ Docdra ☥]

Originally posted by Dev Rossik:

Open your inventory and go to the essence tab. Choose any higher-tier essence, right-click, and select "Extract". I can confirm this works for T2 and the Hope essence. I also assume it works for higher levels.

It does work for higher tiers too...

[OffsidesOcelot]

I was trying out of the stats box on the right side. Thank you for the heads-up/

and WOAH, the production is amazing.

Hope = 20x T1
T2 = 25x T1
T3 = 250x T1
T4 = 2500x T1

I extracted 800 T3 and have over 200,000 T1 now. I'll never run out again! But I'm going to keep that Hope for infusions.