Essence's

At the beginning i thought the Essence change from poe1 to poe2 would be good, but after playing around with it i came to the realization that the new way is not fun.

in poe1 you use a Essence and get 1 guarantied mod and the item becomes a rare with some other mods, that lead me to use them frequently even in the campaign.

in poe2 you only get 1 mod, therefore trying to build something with it, you will need 1 normal Essence 1 augment 1 Greater Essence and 3 Exalts,
the issue with that is that if the Greater Essence does not give you what you need you need to start from the beginning.

so every greater essence fail can cost you 10 normal Essence's (+the Augs), what i started doing is to ignore the Essence's and only use Speed for Boots and Pray, because by the time you get some Greater Essence's the Mods on the Items you want are already somewhat defined, making each Essence try compete with trading where instead of having to spent 100's of Exalt's on Essence's to get a Chance for getting a good item i can just spent 1 Exalt and get exactly what i want.