Question about Seer's Essence quests. Tl;dr at the bottom.

[Crawler]

Seer asks to collect specific amounts of Essence and then return to her so she'll give a prize for each one. Now i was wondering, I read the very last Essence goal 2500 (correct me if I'm wrong) but I was wondering if I could still get all the rewards if I mass collect Essence and just go to her when I have enough for the last goal or will I only get the one for the last one if I have enough? I'm asking because I don't really feel like going to Resting Grounds every time I reach a goal because sometimes it goes massively over. And because it appears that certain bosses can be fought twice in a row, getting a harder version to fighg after dream nailing the corpse and then they turn into Essence (I watched a guide lol), and quite a lot of it so I was wondering if I could just do that and go to Seer once without missing anything. Because I'm pretty sure the corpses of those bosses won't be waiting for me to come fight them in the dream realm and I definitely don't want to miss any battles because I want my first playthrough to be as complete as possible.

Tl;dr: Can I skip the specific Essence goals and still get all the rewards from it if I collect enough for the very last quest and only then go to Seer?

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

You can return at 2400 Essence (this is the goal) and you will recieve all previous rewards 🙂
Some rewards are really worth returning to, however. Especially the one at 900 Essence.

The Dream bosses are really hard, so you will probably want to return to them later anyway.

You can't really miss anything in this game except one ending (if you actually do too much before completing the game) and 3 things require a per-save game choice, so to see everything you will have to complete the game again on another save.

You can also play the game and complete it as many times as you want on the same save file and do full completion at any time.

So I would say, I would chill and just play the game normally 🙂

Generally be prepared to backtrack a lot, as this is pure metroidvania style. The game was designed for backtracking.

And of course, I wouldn't be myself if I wouldn't recommend my Web Tool for Completionists:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2209910193

[kanna]

^^^ As Rezno[R] said.

I'll just add that it makes the game a lot easier if you can get the rewards sooner than if you get them later, since you're going to be sitting through the dialogue regardless. The Seer is right next to a Stagway more or less, so you might as well (crystal) dash on in there whenever you've just defeated a major Dream Boss or you've taken out at least two Warrior Dreams.

[Crawler]

Originally posted by 🉑 reznoR:

You can return at 2400 Essence (this is the goal) and you will recieve all previous rewards 🙂
Some rewards are really worth returning to, however. Especially the one at 900 Essence.

The Dream bosses are really hard, so you will probably want to return to them later anyway.

You can't really miss anything in this game except one ending (if you actually do too much before completing the game) and 3 things require a per-save game choice, so to see everything you will have to complete the game again on another save.

You can also play the game and complete it as many times as you want on the same save file and do full completion at any time.

So I would say, I would chill and just play the game normally 🙂

Generally be prepared to backtrack a lot, as this is pure metroidvania style. The game was designed for backtracking.

And of course, I wouldn't be myself if I wouldn't recommend my Web Tool for Completionists:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2209910193

Thanks a lot. I was kind of worried about it since Soul Master and Broken Vessel are up next on my list of things to take care of and I know they have an option for a dream battle and since I'm somewhere around 667 Essence I was worried about missing the rewards for the 700 Essence mission since I know they'll drop a lot if I beat them in the dream realm. It's just good to know that I won't miss any rewards because it's going to save me a lot of time in the next run (that I'll start really soon purely because I want to fight the Mantis Lords again and I'll probably just stop playing that file after that haha).

And since I'm already rambling about this, if I beat Soul Master and/or Broken Vessel, will their bodies disappear like the other bosses or will they actually stay there until I use the dream nail on them to fight a second time? Because it's probably gonna take forever until I actually beat them regularly and I might need to take a huge breather and go do some platforming to calm down before trying ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mode and I don't want to miss the opportunity so I'm asking now while I have the opportunity so I can plan my next game sesh without accidentally missing a whole ass battle just because I did decide to dump all my geo in the fountain (that's the plan for after beating Broken Vessel haha). And thanks again!

[Festive Mints]

Thanks a lot. I was kind of worried about it since Soul Master and Broken Vessel are up next on my list of things to take care of and I know they have an option for a dream battle and since I'm somewhere around 667 Essence I was worried about missing the rewards for the 700 Essence mission since I know they'll drop a lot if I beat them in the dream realm. It's just good to know that I won't miss any rewards because it's going to save me a lot of time in the next run (that I'll start really soon purely because I want to fight the Mantis Lords again and I'll probably just stop playing that file after that haha).

And since I'm already rambling about this, if I beat Soul Master and/or Broken Vessel, will their bodies disappear like the other bosses or will they actually stay there until I use the dream nail on them to fight a second time? Because it's probably gonna take forever until I actually beat them regularly and I might need to take a huge breather and go do some platforming to calm down before trying ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mode and I don't want to miss the opportunity so I'm asking now while I have the opportunity so I can plan my next game sesh without accidentally missing a whole ass battle just because I did decide to dump all my geo in the fountain (that's the plan for after beating Broken Vessel haha). And thanks again! [/quote]
The bodies will stay there until you decide to fight them, there's no time limit or anything.

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

No need to worry about it, they will stay and wait as long as you like. The only thing which may disappear too quickly in this game is probably the Grimm Troupe, if you decide to take the Banishment route.
No problem!

Kanna made a good point about the Seer being literally next to the Stag Station 🙂

[Garbage_Collector]

Originally posted by Crawler:

Seer asks to collect specific amounts of Essence and then return to her so she'll give a prize for each one. Now i was wondering, I read the very last Essence goal 2500 (correct me if I'm wrong) but I was wondering if I could still get all the rewards if I mass collect Essence and just go to her when I have enough for the last goal or will I only get the one for the last one if I have enough? I'm asking because I don't really feel like going to Resting Grounds every time I reach a goal because sometimes it goes massively over. And because it appears that certain bosses can be fought twice in a row, getting a harder version to fighg after dream nailing the corpse and then they turn into Essence (I watched a guide lol), and quite a lot of it so I was wondering if I could just do that and go to Seer once without missing anything. Because I'm pretty sure the corpses of those bosses won't be waiting for me to come fight them in the dream realm and I definitely don't want to miss any battles because I want my first playthrough to be as complete as possible.

Tl;dr: Can I skip the specific Essence goals and still get all the rewards from it if I collect enough for the very last quest and only then go to Seer?

Okay. So here are the fastest ways to get dream essence:

-go around to each of those tree emblems on your map, if you don't see them then you need to buy the map pins from cornifer/his wife's shop in dirtmouth. Go and strike the tree and large red dream orbs will be distributed across the room you are in, collect all those orbs, you need to do this.

-go around the map and find the dream bosses and defeat them. I think those pins you get i was talking about will show you where these are as well. You activate these fights by striking things that have those little dream orbs coming off of them, if you haven't yet go back to broken vessel and strike him (i say this cuz i missed that the first time time i went through the game)

-one of these that's easy to miss is in bretta's house. You rescue bretta in the fungal wastes near the bottom of that map. Once you save her, then inside of her house you'll find a mask shard and a statue with little dream orbs coming off it either inside a hole or in the main room (i can't remember), once you strike that you will fight zote the grey prince and win several hundred dream orbs.

Keep doing this until you find everything, and you'll get the completion points.

[Jith03]

Be sure to talk to Seer after waking up, since I ran away without talking on a previous save and I don't think I was able to collect essence.

[kanna]

Originally posted by Jith03:

Be sure to talk to Seer after waking up, since I ran away without talking on a previous save and I don't think I was able to collect essence.

I routinely dash away without talking to her on my pseudo-speedruns, but I don't recall having issues collecting essence when I was done the run and did other things on the save file. I'll have to try that out soon (and make sure I don't talk to her before trying to get essence). It's so cute what she says when you go back later though. Love those little details-- also the little variation in what the Snail Shaman says if you go take out Elder Baldur before talking again.