New items and craftable mods for atlas of worlds/essence

The reveal is out so let's talk about how these might benefit PvP or make things way worse.


My first concern is Essence of Horror's effect on helmets. This basically gives elemental skills a free 40% MORE multiplier, giving each of us a 5L for our helm.

It is rng based an it will probably be extremely hard to craft a good item.

First you have to farm the top tier essence and by the look of it, it's gonna take a while (especially if you need to corrupt them for the best mods). After that you need to use it and pray for a good global roll. If you get a good global roll, you have to pray that there is one slot available for tora/haku master mod to clean the useless mods and craft what you need (the probability of getting a sick item are as high as chaos bombing).

I wouldn't expect the whole meta to change based on that, Talismans was a similar idea but extremely few sick talismans were made (the fact that you couldn't mirror them may have reduced their influence on the meta).
Obviously "rich" people will be able to buy the top tier items when they roll to std but without eternal orbs and a functional duping technique (let's be honest here for a sec), the chance of someone crafting godly gear like Glyph/Brood are extremely low.

Reminds me of talismans. Maybe a bit more crafting options.

Yeah, I think they will be as common to find on the market with all useful mods on them as warbands boots/helms are, maybe a little more.

I dont know if you guys read the description move, but you can either "chaos it" with the essence to roll a new rare...or upgrade to a rare item (which won't reroll).

Meaning you can get a good prefix and suffix then slap that shit on. Obviously for ES helms it's still gonna be pretty RNG based because you'll have to get another T1 ES afterwards, but still. The 40% more ele damage is pretty nuts.

I'm looking at videos where chris is explaining some of the new bosses and items...

He hovers over this Deafening Essence of Woe




That thing is basically like slapping a T1 ES mod on shields or T1 spell damage mod on wands/daggers/scepters.




Quote from Chris himself

"You get one of these essences on average once per map"

That means you can buy a buttload from farmers and just spam craft.

Ha missed that indeed, well it make those slightly more interesting but still the link limits will probably limit how op those thing can become.

Definitely can help to craft a specific piece of gear tho but nothing extremely OP from what I saw so far. Obviously they may be completely broken stuff that we haven't seen yet.

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Simplesim45 wrote:

The reveal is out so let's talk about how these might benefit PvP or make things way worse.


My first concern is Essence of Horror's effect on helmets. This basically gives elemental skills a free 40% MORE multiplier, giving each of us a 5L for our helm.

oh.... lapiz gonna make a coc cycloner with leg kaoms

I wonder if that can apply to any weapon or not, CoC bow with spell damage? Claws with spell damage?

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Márkusz wrote:

I wonder if that can apply to any weapon or not, CoC bow with spell damage? Claws with spell damage?

Well they used generic terms so I'm assuming yes.