Low level Runes should not need Eldritch Essence for crafting

[Ulvar1]

Those things are not easy to get,

I have 321 of them. And I restarted in patch 1.1.7

and complete sets

Just for the sake of completing sets or to make characters that can farm? If you do make farming characters, you can therefore farm them Farming Routes/Farming Guides Compilation at Note that in higher SR shards (at least in ultimate) you get 1-3 per completed run. The waystone costs one so overall you gain Eldritch Essences.

You first complaint was that Eldritch Essences are not accessible if you play the DLC’s in order (which is a self-imposed constraint) and now you complain that Eldritch Essences are rare in general?

I do pop over there to grab the free runes, of course.

Ok you are breaking your own preferences then for the sake of QoL. BTW I realized, there is an Eldritch monster totem in the temple of the three, I think I have gotten some Eldritch essences there.

But the later ones are more useful.

In what sense are the later ones more useful? They have slightly more damage and shorter cooldown, that’s it. I use faction ones until like level 100.