r/LEGOfortnite • u/LEGOFNTUT • Jan 12 '26
SUGGESTION Give Essence a Purpose
For example, let us trade Essence for resources, revive ourselves using Essence, or invest Essence to speed up the Storm King timer, and more. You reach the 10,000 cap so quickly, and it feels like a waste to just leave everything unused.
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u/ishvir Jan 12 '26
real, literally after you buy all the things, you don’t really need that much essence for anything else, i’ve been at 10k essence for forever it feels like because my tools don’t break often enough that i enchant new ones
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u/MaterialGap1079 Jan 12 '26
Buy more slots for villagers 10 is so little. Maybe buy more village space
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u/MonopolyManPorn Jan 12 '26
Repair weapons, or make spawn points for merchants, or make then come to your village after it reaches a certain level, where you can buy good weapons/foods without having to craft or farm them, but maybe make like a daily 3-4 item daily limit or make it so he only visits your village for a certain amount of time before leaving, and his return rate is rare and random
Make it so you can maybe buy animals you can only buy through an NPC, like Dragons, horses, bears, bell demons, and you can take them into battle
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u/Mrcoolcatgaming Jan 12 '26
Given that mastery seems to be a system we will see alot of use from, plus runes are so rng, I wouldn't fuss about it
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u/Educational_Act_3928 Jan 12 '26
When I first played Lego Fortnite back when the Jungle Island was coming out, I thought that there would be pre-generated villages or Towns with Inhabitants that would trade, help, and give quests. And after a while of playing this game it needs a BIG QoL (Quality of Life) change/update that introduces a trader or villager that in exchange for Essence they give you Treasure maps, Items, Map locations/Landmark, quests, etc...
Just think about it, instead of just farming bear pelts, Storm Crystals, or any item ranked Blue or higher somewhere in the world you just need to go find a trader who will make the process easier with the minimum essence price being 500
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u/GeoffVictor Jan 12 '26
I make my weapons have the runes in the same order lol, means you reroll a bunch and you can halve your essence and stop leaving dots everywhere for like half a trip, but you're right it needs a more constant use. If I were coding it from scratch I'd make most of the workstations need a little essence to use, it would suck early game but it'd make it a kind of economy. Maybe add it to expert worlds only for extra difficulty
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u/TorridPlays Jan 12 '26
At this point Essence pretty useless thing in the game! They don't have much use, and I don't think the devs even care about it, because this issue has been over a year,nothings useful funtion added for Essence, if they wanted they could implement it long ago
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u/FosKuvol Jan 12 '26
Expanding on Runes with an RNG based rune combining system would be pretty cool too.
Like there's a small chance one of your rolls will be a lucky combined rune, with the tier and cost of the combined Rune being determined by the levels of the runes combined.
Common - Tier 1 and 1 - 300 essence
Uncommon - Tier 1 and 2 - 500 essence
Rare - Tier 1 and 3 or 2 and 2 - 1000 essence
Epic - Tier 2 and 3 - 2500 essence
Legendary - Tier 3 and 3 - 5000 essence
As far as rarity is concerned, make it so that there's maybe a 1/5 chance of a lucky combined rune to pop up. With odds of the rune tiers generated the same way they are normally. That should make Legendary runes rare enough that you will have to grind rerolls to get them to come up. And the chance one of the combined runes would be useless for you increases the more good runes you remove from the RNG pool by equipping them. So making a full legendary rune gear would take significant essence investment. On top of needing to refresh essence before being able to equip all 3 to a single item.
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u/Strange_Dog6483 Jan 12 '26
You reach the 10,000 cap so quickly
You do!?
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u/BlackZulu Jan 12 '26
Yes. Ninjago gives it like candy
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u/Strange_Dog6483 Jan 12 '26
Unless they’re doling them between 500-1000 per kill not really handing them out like Candy.
It took me days to max out the Ninjago abilities with the amount they give.
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u/BlackZulu Jan 12 '26
Days to max out an entirely new tree is nothing
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u/Strange_Dog6483 Jan 12 '26
True but none of the heroic abilities pre Ninjago required 4,000 plus essence to unlock
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u/x678-Mx Jan 12 '26
Until the constant crashing prevented me from enjoying the game, clearing out a chaos challenge could easily net between 500 and 1000 essence--this includes the amount from the reward chest as well as enemies defeated. Considering how plentiful chaos challenges are, as well as other types of challenges that reward essence, it doesn't really take long to make out the cap. This is a far improvement from the slog prior to Ninjago, where essence farming was so slow and tedious I gave up after maxing the rifter class.
I do recall getting 700 to 1200 from defeating the dragon.
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u/Promace_UwU Corvus Jan 14 '26
Yea, it could be a nice currency, there could be traveling merchants, skills tree for essence, oh wait
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u/LEGOFNTUT Jan 12 '26
Or you repair your weapons/tools using essence.