Speaking of Essence, is it just me or do the spawned nephelym feel weaker compared to the world-level days? even with the cheat active to put them all on essence 5, i feel like it still only spawns normal nephelym, with the occasional uncommon or rare one, didn't come across a natural legendary yet.
compared to the world level days where, once the world level was high enough, the spawned nephelym had incredible stats after a while with dozens of legendary or epic ones roaming around. maybe this is what the changelog meant with "Overhauled the way wild ones spawn, returning the focus to breeding"
also, with the change to the size-trait, it has certainly become a lot more work to create nephs of unusual size. i mean, at least the dude is changing something, but even i'm starting to notice the annoying grind the dev is making. and this is coming from someone who enjoys playing soulslikes. difference is, one game requires skill, the other requires luck, and a luck based grind is one annoying wall to climb.
and if i were playing the game the intended way, i'd not only need the luck to first find a neph with the right trait, i need to someone manage to pass it off to the next of kin, wait until the pregnancy is over, hope the right traits, if any, were passed on, and manage to get the higher leveled trait passed on...
a friend of mine recently said it took him 3 hours to unlock the goblin area, this doesn't sound like a fun grind when all i can do is press buttons and hope for the best like i'm playing a Gacha game.