How to use Essence of Horror correctly?
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Do I understand correctly: an Essence of Horror (like all other essences) only works on white items, so that if I use it to get the special crafted mod and roll an item with it which then has this mod (of course) but the rest of the mods are just crap, I will lose the special mod by chaos-ing it? If so, is there a trick to using these essences or is this just something for really rich people?
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You're basically right - they can also be used on rare items, but will completely reroll the mods. There isn't really a trick, you just have to use a few and cross your fingers. If you're on a budget, you can at least hope for an empty slot to master craft a mod you need.
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Using a Chaos orb will remove all existing affixes (including the one from essences) and randomly apply new affixes.
There is only one way around that, a lvl 8 master meta-craft. For example: determine whether the essence affix is a prefix or a suffix, then use (prefixes/suffixes cannot be changed). Then a Chaos orb can only change the other affixes. Of course, you want to be filthy rich for this as well, as it costs two exalted Orbs to apply the master craft in the first place. ;) |
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" Metamod crafting does not work with essence mods. It was preemptively nerfed before essence league even began. The only trick to essence crafting is to get lucky. |
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" Far as I know the method described by 'tomay' works. The only "does not work with" is that the Essence overwrites the metamods. But metamods can still be used on Essence crafted items. No wonder it's lost, it's in the middle of the jungle!
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" Interesting. I haven't ever tried it, but my understanding was that the way Essences ignore meta-mods is that if you craft "prefixes cannot be changed" on an item BEFORE using an essence on it, the meta-mod will be ignored, and the prefixes will change, when you use the essence on it. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I never even thought about doing it the other way around. U MAD?
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" No, they're ignored completely. " EDIT: For future clarity, I currently don't actually disagree with Zrevnur (i.e. me saying "No" is wrong) - I misread tomay's method. Need game info? Check out the Wiki at: https://www.poewiki.net/ Contact support@grindinggear.com for account issues. Check out How to Report Bugs + Post Images at: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/18347 Last edited by adghar#1824 on May 2, 2017, 3:02:12 PM
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" Can you backup this claim properly? Because I do not interpret your quote the way you do. Also see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/5972g5/so_i_crafted_this_3_decay_bow_today/ Clearly metamods work on Essence crafted items. So they are not "ignored completely". No wonder it's lost, it's in the middle of the jungle!
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Clarification: What I meant with "The only "does not work with" is that the Essence overwrites the metamods." is that the Essence overwrites the item ignoring any metamods on it.
No wonder it's lost, it's in the middle of the jungle!
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My bad, you're right. I misread tomay's method.
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