I think the echoing nightmare is here to address all the complaints (I know I have them) about having to level gems for augmenting up from zero all the time.
My theory is that it stays in the game, and it just maxes out the gems at 100 after the season. That makes the most sense to me.
Then pump up the drop chance to 50% instead of 5%.
I think the drop rate is fine. Its been less than a week.
Sure thing, Roseā¦
Itās so rare it doesnāt matter
Well, that one season they worked on narrowing the playing field between solo and group so why not completely blow it away and make it so groups get 40x-100x more everything.
Make it so that every player needs a scream to access it, 100-125 max augment level and can even keep the drop rate as low as it is now but let the max drop rate increase with higher levels.
So the current 5% (what I have heard so far) stays and at 100 it increases. Or some level that requires some form of significant progress to speed farm at so you āearnā the ability to quickly augment a new build.
And itās already boring. I did the only one that dropped for me as I went completely through the journey, and if I never do another one, I wonāt feel bad. Itās a āfeatureā with zero staying power in a game that is desperately trying to keep a playerbase.
I finished the season journey yesterday and tried the EN. If I could give my petrified screams away to someone who has not received any of them I would. Now I need to work on my other season goals I still have somethings I want to do. The EN is not high on the list.
This is my guess too, I think thereās a high chance echoing nightmare might stay in the game after S26. I guess we have to wait and see lolā¦
You could invite people to a group and do them all. I am sure people who donāt have any would join.
ethereal weapons and 4 cube slot should stayed game.
EN will be permanent just as 4th Kanaiās Cube slot, Ethereals and Soul shardsā¦ 
You forgot about soul shards too, but unfortunately devs only care about group players and what streamers have to say and all the nerf whinners, so you can forget about getting anything that could actually lower the gap between SOLO and META players or that could improve the gameplay for SOLO players at allā¦
true. game should have solo only mode like PoE has.
I sure would love to still have this young and naive hope some of you guys have. At least thereās still some positive people on this community.
image how popular tis game would be if we had offline mode and moddingā¦ blizzard never understand how modding make games last longer.
Those things were very heavy in power creep. The echoing nightmare is not. They will just have to lower the max level, as I said in my original post.
If EN were to be permanent I think they would have mentioned that already. So far we have only had the LoD gem as a carryover from seasonal effects, and that was a rework too.
I think EN would be a great addition to the base game, but it remains to be seen if theyāll keep it.
Indeed, just like how they had said that the followers rework were permanent for both season and non-season.
Now thatās not to say that Echoing Nightmare wonāt be permanent (as thereās still a chance). However, since Echoing Nightmare hadnāt been stated to be a permanent addition, itās likely that it wonāt stay after seasonās end.
yes it does. i was merely speculating and generating conversation