Craft Higher Level Archaic Essense From Lower / make essence upgradeable

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• 19 Nov, '25
  Jason Sovis Merged

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  Basically the title. It seems odd that I can collect a whole bunch of essence from a high level area but then can't use the essence at lower level forges. I get the forge can only upgrade the gem to a specific level and then you have to go to a higher level forge, but it's a horrible grind to try and collect 5 essences from 5 different areas in enough quantity to level up your gem.

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• 24 Jul, '25
  DragonsDusk

  This please.

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• 24 Jul, '25
  PaulJ

  Agreed, it seems like a waste for lower tier resources to just abruptly become useless later. Especially since this game contains both crafting and survival mechanics.

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• 23 Aug, '25
  Void Merged

  Make it upgradable like runes, except have the Collector do it. So it's possible, but it takes awhile to earn the ability (when you unlock the Collector)

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• 28 Aug, '25
  PaulJ Merged

  +1, this makes them more useful rather than gated by level, plus it gives an NPC more utility.

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• 06 Sep, '25
  Hiemis

  That, or maybe a secondary use for the essence. Like fueling a machine, or using it in crafting recipes.

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• 24 Sep, '25
  Dampendair

  I think this has been posted elsewhere.

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• 29 Sep, '25
  Toast System

  "Make Archaic Essence upgradable" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-08-23), including upvotes (11) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 12 Nov, '25
  Liberty

  Absolutely frustrating carting all my essences to a gem forge and having weapons with slots but unable to use the gems. Ridiculous.

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• 17 Nov, '25
  JustAnotherPlayer Merged

  Standardize Archaic Essence so that all gems use "Archaic Essence" and not a level based version of it. To ensure balance, simply require higher quantities of it for higher level gems.
  To make the gathering process make sense, you can have lower level areas drop less of the material. As you advance through the game the better areas drop more of it. The amount of archaic essence required to level up your gem would need to be adjusted to match this system, but it is in my opinion a much less tedious system for players.

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• 25 Nov, '25
  mungattack

  So much archaic essence clutter.

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• 29 Nov, '25
  GamerSpam Merged

  I feel like we should be able to combine essences to upgrade them and/or be able to split higher level essences to downgrade them. This would allow players to combine many of their essences that will most likely sit in a box without being used.

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• 29 Nov, '25
  insomniari Merged

  This - the only gem I've found that works for a bow so far is low level, and every time you slot or remove it the lower level essence is used. I understand needing better essence for better gems but it seems weird to have tons of much more powerful essence but can't use an early game gem.

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• 04 Dec, '25
  Vapok System

  "Standardize Archaic Essence as the current system convolutes the process, making it generally unfun." (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-11-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 04 Dec, '25
  Vapok System

  "Allow higher level archaic essence to be used at lower level forges" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-11-19), including upvotes (18) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 28 Dec, '25
  Sprok

  The essence system is in significant need of a rework. We end up with too many essence types, and it's not very clear overall.

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• 31 Dec, '25
  PaulJ

  The designers probably wanted to keep things level-appropriate; however, weapons and gems already have levels. This feature needs (1) an appropriate level weapon, (2) appropriate level essence (and in sufficient quantity), and (3) an appropriate level gem forge. Don't forget we have to FIND the gem forges, they're easily missed especially if you dislike hanging around in the shroud (because of the whole dying timer thing).
  
  Trying to use this feature feels like punishment. We'll just wait until endgame and slot only top tier gems, the rest might as well be trash to be deleted. I have a couple gems but they're rotting in a chest because it requires too much effort to slot them, and their bonuses are so insignificant.
  
  This mechanic has too many requirements. For a start, remove levels from the essences and the gem forges. Gear variety, as well as slot and gem availability also need improving but that's a different, if related, topic.

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• 16 Jan
  leilar

  This system is just too awful. Essences are tedious to farm, higher level essences can't be converted to low essences, getting into gem forges is a pain in the ass. Everything is so wrong that people are saying gems are not worth, which has nothing to do with the value of the gem itself.

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• 03 Mar
  Mick

  either upgradeable essence or standardize essence and just increase amount needed. too many levels and they're not easily identifiable.

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• 12 May
  eido

  essence is a mess right now

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