new guy here (essence)

[CaptainK]

whats the use of essence?

[Dustin Dalby]

There are multiples aspects of Essence. They are used to craft a number of items : grenades, elemental arrows, scrolls are the ones that come to mind but I expect there's probably other recipes that use them. They're one of the few crafting items you want to stock up on along with Source Orbs.

Crafting equipment is generally not very rewarding because chances are you've already dropped good stuff to wear. Crafting consumables on the other hand is a very rewarding prospect :
-Everyone can use Grenades and Scrolls so it's super handy to have everyone in the party carry a bunch of those
-Elemental arrows transform any Ranged Weapon character into bloody Batman, enabling burst, CC, Elemental Affinity setups, AOE damage and debuff, environmental control, even healing with blessed and/or poison arrows.

[CaptainK]

thanks bro

[Stabbey]

If you combine Essence with empty potion bottles, apparently you can make special potions which are very good, but sell for more than what it costs to buy the ingredients from vendors. Of course finding ingredients from vendors tends to be random.

[Chaoslink]

They’re something worth keeping if you find or look up the proper recipes. Some recipes will require the lower tier versions too, items that you’ll struggle to find once you’re a high enough level to see the higher tiers. So a plain water essence will be almost impossible to find once you’re past the high quality tier and into the alien essence tier.

[Dustin Dalby]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

[On The Scarcity of Lower Tier Essences]

I'll point out you can always ask Han to go grab one of those lower tier essences if you really need one, although that might take a while considering you don't level as often in the end game.