bring back essence regalling

before the people start blasting "THEY NEVER WORKED LIKE THAT!" they did, they either removed that function a couple leagues ago (cause I stopped playing shortly after getting to maps because I wasn't having fun), or they just recently changed it to coincide with how they work in PoE2 which honestly makes them worse.

With how they work now they are literally just slot machines within slot machines. without any way of having some way to control what stats you get, you lose players in the long run because only those lucky enough to either A) get a god drop or B) be rich party players unlike 90% of the community you will be stuck once going into mapping

they way essences worked before made it so that players who actually took the time to get the resources had a way of crafting upgrades for themselves eventually, but now you can only guarantee at most 2 affixes half the time which with how essences worked previously (as a regal) you could guarantee 4 affixes by using Transmutation > Augmentation > transmutation (for changing without scouring for better options) or essence (to regal for a desired stat) > bench craft (for another desired stat from a limited pool)

this left 2 of the affixes completely to rng but still had some deterministic source of upgrades and also left those stat's tier to complete rng, now you either alch, alch, or alch which is probably one of the most demotivating things you can do, or you just pray you get enough divines to outright buy an upgrade from one of the streamers if you are lucky

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jmbrady565#2200 wrote:

before the people start blasting "THEY NEVER WORKED LIKE THAT!" they did, they either removed that function a couple leagues ago (cause I stopped playing shortly after getting to maps because I wasn't having fun), or they just recently changed it to coincide with how they work in PoE2 which honestly makes them worse.

Except they actually never worked like that. Essences have received the least amount of changes of pretty much any mechanic since they got introduced.

Go check the rather empty changelog on the wiki if you don't believe it.

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Essence

Essences did not work that way, ever.

You might confuse that with 'add fire mod' from old-old-ancient Harvest mechanic

there were no other methods of targeted, risk-free mod addition

old jun was adding a mod but they changed a while back.

for essence crafting youd be spamming fracture bases or rog crafting would be better.

you might confuse this with POE2 essences which did worked this way. POE1 never did.

Low tier essences upgrade the item to a rare but cannot reroll it.
High tier essences (Screaming+) also functions as a chaos orb. It's basically a C with one guaranteed mod.

All tiers of essence can upgrade a normal item to a rare, and screaming and up can also reforge a rare. They've never worked on magic items. That has not changed since the launch of essence league (which I still remember fairly well), it's always been that way.