I’m sorry, but it’s just almost ridiculous how a basic currency can limit your gameplay and how hard it is to get. I would say you get a very decent amount of the special embers in the late game portion of early access, but fallen embers, being used for respec + rerolls of equipment, are just absolutely nowhere. Me and my bf are playing for a good amount of hours now and he wants to respec, i wanna respec to just try a different playstyle, and we have about 2 fallen embers together. We managed to farm 3 in one hour of looting, running around and doing what we can today.
We do our dailies and weeklies, but the only option seems to be realm hopping now, wich im just not gonna do.
Even if there are gonna be suggestions like wait for your traders and find your crucible trader, this currency shouldn’t be so extremely hard to come at this stage of the game by in my opinion.
I completely agree.
(Essence ember too)
I recently started playing— already after patch 1.0 dropped—and finished the entire Early Access storyline.
Then I started figuring out the item upgrade system.
At first, the special embers I gathered seemed like more than enough, but while learning the mechanics, a few items obviously ended up being “ruined” as bad attempts.
And that was basically it—I ran out of items.
Sometimes I play for two hours straight and not a single Essence ember drops.
This allows me to target-farm the exact enchantments I need, without dealing with a gacha system for every little thing.
Fallen Embers drop more often, but to use them effectively, I had to find an enchantment table and learn beforehand that I need to fill the categories with fewer variations first, then roll the largest category, and only after that reroll the earlier categories in search of a higher buff.
Not to mention that on Corrupting Ember gear, I also have to negate the negative stat.
Meaning that even with this mechanic, since it’s entirely RNG-based, you still need a fair amount of them just to put together a full set with the right enchantments.
In light of the above:
First of all, I assume that new players will simply be overwhelmed by this—I mean, they need guides, otherwise getting the right set would take months of grinding.
Secondly, I ran around in one armor set—light armor, for example—and got tired of it visually; I want the same one (same enchantments) but with a different design.
Trying to transfer abilities to a new set is an absolute nightmare.
All It turns into this merciless grind—you boot up the game to fish, dig, and loot chests.
exactly. I’m not sure what the plan is for full release, but i really hope this is not it.
I have over 250 hours in the game and have not had that experience. Here is what I did:
- Do all quests that have Fallen Embers rewards. Chest hunt along the way for increased odds.
- Check the General Merchant.
- Get to Special Merchant after you free him from the jail cell. He’s only in the city from 8pm-Midnight.
Then, create a new Realm and do it all over again. I ended up creating ~10 realms for farming quests and rewards. I am currently on my 3rd character and have close to 300 Fallen Embers in inventory.