OW essence needs help

[idle harbor]

The only way of farming OW essence is by killing Skeleton warrior at a 20% chance to get some scraps.
It takes 34,560 OW ess for 1 full day of golem per person. (691.2k ess for 20/20)
There's many ways to tackle this bottleneck but here are some ideas i cooked up.

1. Make Spider fang, Ancient bone, and Golem fragment have a "Breakdown" option to create new untradable OW ess thats bound to the clan.

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2. Have ammo-saver effect carry over with a 50% nerf for OW ess. (90% ammo-saver = 45% chance to not consume ess while being hit)

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3. OW ess are only consumed if hit above (any number greater than zero) so that way its not wasted on misses and adding a buff to drop-rate amount. (refer to image 3 and 4)

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I just want The ways of the genie to feel like an upgrade because right now it feels more like a completionist chase unlock more than anything.
(If you have another idea type it in chat below)

[lethal gulch]

id suggest essence also potentially dropping off all 3 clan bosses

[onyx zinc]

i like the idea of essence bound to the clan, what if it was just a clan resource that would be used once every golem hit(independent on amount of players)

[idle harbor]

bump

[ripe tulip]

Check this man’s stack of essence!! The rich get richer with essence buff 😉

[idle harbor]

i have less than 5k across all 3 accounts and Temsei can check himself

[idle harbor]

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[idle harbor]

bump

[spring needle]

I agree.

[mossy vessel]

Agreed

[finite dock]

As a person that held 8 bones yes I agree

[remote cedar]

up, essences not worth to farm at all, an increase up to 60% will be already a huge buff and essences will get more a value for golem, as currently most people just buy food instead of buying/farming ow essences

[marsh kettle]

looks at all T4s that have billions and full OW weapons and tools even on alts This is a very bad idea

[idle harbor]

give a reason why its a bad idea

[jolly cave]

Essence definitely needs help in its current state, some sort of change needs to happen.

[marsh kettle]

The reason is in my comment. Buy more food so that lower lvl players can get some gold also.

[cloud tusk]

I'm not full ow.. my alts have zero ow items. Guess I need to try harder 😅

[opal belfry]

Guess we found the one person who voted ❌ 😂

[ruby wing]

Btw ow essence will be obtainable by 'breaking' the clan requirement upgrade items ie fang bone fragment iirc

[marsh kettle]

How often do you farm skele? 🫠

[cloud tusk]

Almost never lol

[idle harbor]

im not full ow either

[cloud tusk]

I'd surely have full ow if my alts were not on extermination duty grind.. so many choices

[marsh kettle]

I see my comment/reaction are getting some "hate" so I'll explain myself:

• Just because essence is bis for Golem doesn't mean it should be an abundance of it. Golem is hard endgame content therefor defeating it should not be easy.
• In order to avoid all the issues around essence we can just ask for the Wolf mob drop the ow gem. Would everyone be happy?

[remote cedar]

you are missing the point, we don’t want to have golem easier to be slain or to get faster and better a gemstone, the point is right now people don’t even use essences at all and the spider drops are more useful than skeleton as the essences missing the point to be a value item, as well as one of the 2 hardest/longest clan upgrades feel kinda useless to have, it’s imo also non sense that an essence is getting used, even tho the golem barely hit you or even missed you, right now many players that did once a skeleton and golem farm session will say how useless essences are and are just buying food from player market, because it’s a better value than to farm 20k essences in a 24h cycle with one account, when 35k essences/day are used

[river osprey]

I just did the math as well. My clan has the upgrade and I would have to be buying the essence at a max price of 220 each for it to be even with just using tuna.

Something definitely needs to change for it to become viable

[marsh kettle]

I understand you viewpoint. The difference might be in how we perceive the usage of essence.
Imo essence is to be used by the average player/guild, in addition to food, so that they can actually finish a Golem run without death. It is not to be used for 24h runs.

[remote cedar]

imo these buffs will help the average player even more, than the golem clans and people running 24/7 golem, as most BiS will probably continue using and buying food, and the average players can farm essences easily up, such as they can sell it to the player market and earn more gold with it, as it is currently the case

[idle harbor]

"Imo essence is to be used by the average player/guild"
That's literally why i made this post.
End game players don't need ow essence at all.

[worldly jacinth]

i just realised i didnt respond to this

no.1 is soontmed

oh wono did

[ruby wing]

yer 😄

[merry pendant]

throwing this in the air as an idea.
as dumb as it may be i sometimes spend hours in the boss fight even forgetting to equip my essences. since it is a "clan event" why give a slight advantage to the players who have the item. essences should become an untradable item from the market, have it on all the clan boss drop tables but also it would be used up directly from the clan vault in some way.

i like the idea of it using the arrow-saver upgrade. so why not have something else the "clan" can work towards and have a essence-saver upgrade with the same mechanic as arrow-saver but would use up the essence directly from the clan vault as opposed of individual players having to equip 35k essences

[idle harbor]

bump