Coming Next Week -- New Source for Azerite Essences

[Yancedric-blackhand (Yancedric)]

I’m good with that. Thanks for the encouragement.

[Zenetta-proudmoore (Zenetta)]

This is only useful for people who played in 8.2 and farmed the essences already on a character. It will accomplish nothing in terms of bringing back players who stopped playing prior to that time. You should just make them purchasable regardless of whether you’ve unlocked them previously.

Your argument about the effort other people already put in to farm them isn’t really relevant. Catch up mechanics often invalidate past time investments, why do you insist on forcing people to do significant farms in 8.2 content to catch up in 8.3?

[Jelybeantoes-moon-guard (Jelybeantoes)]

I’d say this is less a response to what players have written on the forums and more of a response to the actions of many who have decided it was time to either take a break from the game or exclusively play old content for the rest of the expansion.

8.3 has not been meeting its goals.

[Kwashiorkor-stormrage (Kwashiorkor)]

I’ll keep my hype levels down because I don’t know how this new currency will work or costs etc. Until then I’ll remain skeptical. But at least they’re doing “something” rather than ignoring people who have alts.

[Tahtah-arthas]

Thank you for clarifying. I was actually a bit confused by this bit too but what you made it make sense to me

[Wylkanth-frostwolf]

Wonder what the complaining will change to now.

“But I have to buy them, I should just get them for free!”

Wait for it……

At this point, what is so bad about just making them available on alts for free? Why the hoops and extra work to implement this?

Literally 3 posts later.

rofl

and awwwaaayyy we goo!!

[Zydus-duskwood]

Worst Implementation. It’s just another grind. Wish they had a down vote. Total bait and switch

[Paeldryth-hyjal (Paeldryth)]

Two good changes in the same week thanks to listening to player feedback?

Oh my.

[Tobiholy-illidan]

go away. This is a great change.

[Kamerion-area-52]

these type of changes always come late into the expansion, game needs to be alt friendly from day 1.

[Jasonhourne-arathor]

It’s honestly comical. I would upvote you if I could but I’ve run dry for today.

[Lathwellen-senjin (Lathwellen)]

Well now. I have a bunch of toons that will be visiting their MOTHER next week. They’ve been avoiding that chamber like the plague because they only have 1 essence and don’t want to accidently open a new slot and then be harrassed by their UI for the rest of their existence.

[Madbeatz-illidan]

@Kaivax

Building on a great deal of feedback and discussion, we’re working on an update to the game. With the next regularly-scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, players who have earned a given Rank 3 Essence on one character will be able to directly obtain that Essence from MOTHER on any subsequent characters.

When playing an alt character that is missing Essences that have already been earned on a different character, most ordinary Visions of N’Zoth activities, such as Horrific Visions, Assaults, raid bosses, Mythic Keystone Dungeons, or BFA Season 4 PvP, will award a new soulbound currency – Echoes of Ny’alotha. These Echoes can be brought to MOTHER in the Heart Chamber, and exchanged directly for eligible Rank 3 Essences. While ordinarily each specific Essence must be learned in order to unlock it for other characters via MOTHER, all Essences associated with Nazjatar and Mechagon reputations will be available if any other different character has earned any of the Essences available from that reputation.

Our goal with this update is to preserve the efforts that players put into unlocking a given Essence through its associated activity the first time, while offering subsequent characters far more flexibility in pursuing that goal. We’ll have additional details in a forthcoming hotfixes update that goes out around the same time as maintenance, but we wanted to let the community know ASAP that this change is in the works.

As always, thank you for all your feedback on this topic!

Please don’t trade one horrendous grind for another; make the currency amounts needed to purchase the essences a reasonable amount.

Also - please make the currency BoA so we can collaborate across our characters.

[Nettie-zuljin]

So is this only for Mechagon and Nazjatar essences? IMO those are the lesser offensive ones to grind… what about the old EP essences… conflict and strife…blood of the enemy

[Metrohaha-firetree (Metrohaha)]

Well, guess that means the expansion is over haha!
This is a nice compromise though.

Purely account wide was never going to make sense, but this is much better.
Excited to see how much currency comes from where and how much each will cost.

[Aviela-wyrmrest-accord]

Where are all the “YoU wAnT AcCoUnt-wIdE geAr as WeLL? ” guys at?

I would like to personally shout out some of these douchebags but I’m sure that won’t go over well. Oh well, I won

[anon19860090]

Progress like this shouldn’t be shared at the account level.

Then I’d say systems like Essences shouldn’t be in the game because it’s just another layer of ice to break through on every character I want to be passable. It’s power creep for the sake of power creep.

They commented on power creep last expansion basically saying they were looking to avoid it being out of control, but, lol, it’s even crazier this expansion.

Essences are just generic abilities and passives. Are they supposed to feel exciting and engaging? Maybe if they did, so many people wouldn’t have been commenting on how they feel like an obnoxious chore to do on every character.

[Raddz-barthilas]

Casuals win again.

The one that “win” are altaholics, which by definition are no where near casuals lol

[Linoge-mannoroth]

That’s all …Was it too hard for ya’ll to actually make Account-Wide rep Account wide ?? What about making Profession gear BoE ?? WQ’s gear actually match your item level ?? Seriously , Essences are the least of our alt problems .

[Metrohaha-firetree (Metrohaha)]

No, these types of changes can only come this late, because otherwise they act to trivialize top competitive pathways.
Like it or not, this game is about character progression, despite how many lines have been blurred by now.

The ability to keep a dozen different characters all near equally powerful would expose massive holes in already weak class balance and design and force the game to be designed per account instead of per class and spec.

The day that happens, the day whats left of the “RPG” in MMORPG dies for good.

I’m sure some would want it regardless.