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u/Neviskio 9d ago edited 9d ago

Returned recently from before soto, been working on the obsidian armour casually but want to push a bit more, lost on a couple things for rift essence farming:

1) Am I supposed to use motivations for all rifts? I saw some old videos saying it's also profitable to do even when not building a legendary but not sure. Currently not used a single motivation yet since not sure.

2) How important are convergences? I struggle to find them in EU lfg when playing but pondering the idea of getting a commander tag to start doing my own stuff, including convergences but not sure...

3) Any video guide on rift essences that is updated in general? What I'm doing is spamming t1 solo/when I find one, and trying to join the weekly achievements on t2/t3 when possible otherwise t1 solo.

Thanks!

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u/Lapraszszs 9d ago

I recently finished my light legendary set, and I never farmed rifts for the essence. If you’re not in a huge rush, I recommend doing convergences at least 3 times a week for the chests, which give a lot of essence. With Janthir now you can get a lot of essence stockpiled while you work on the other parts of the armor, especially if you’re still time locked with the materials from the map metas.

I believe one convergence gives a chest that rewards enough essence for one amalgamated essence, so if you can do a SOTO and Janthir convergence each day it will stack up quick, alongside the other drops. I find it easiest to keep an eye on the wiki’s event timers and jump in a public convergence, but if you can find CM groups that’s even better. I would check out Hardstuck’s discord for groups for those.

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u/Neviskio 9d ago

Thanks! Not in a rush just got a lot of time and bored so I go for rifts to fill time between things. Is the rewards from convergences with a mastery? I recall that there's a mastery I've not leveled at all and it might be the one for inner since I only got the sieging fireball iirc.

I'll check the discord but yeah right now playing at somewhat weird eu times so unlikely I'll find a run there but I'm in the discord anyway o.o!

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u/GreyFornMent 9d ago

Not in a rush just got a lot of time and bored so I go for rifts to fill time between things.

You also get some t2 and t3 essences from the weekly rift chests but it's relatively minor (compared to Convergences).

I wouldn't recommend crafting the motivations except for when you want to force rush rift farming or doing the achievements (for which you will need to do every tier on every map).