I often forget to use my essences on my alts. I forget they exist because they’re so forgettable with zero class fantasy. In legion those “extra abilities” had class fantasy behind them and made sense to use them and enhanced your spec but in BFA they feel so generic and forgettable that I in fact forget to use them often.
I think this alone should be enough reason along with the fact that everyone is wearing the same necklace that AP and the essence system should be account wide progress. They don’t feel like they make my characters any stronger and are just an extra button that has nothing to do with class fantasy and breaks immersion since everyone can be a DH (m+ essence).
I hope the next expansion does away with the trash AP grinds and lame artifacts.I also would like them to quit chasing the e-sports dream they’ve been trying to cash in on. That boat is long gone and you guys were slow to develop a following for it. HoTS failed to be an e-sport and overwatch league is failing miserably and next will be m+ invitational and world races for mythic raiding. Please quit trying to make escapist media a job by gating the best gear in the game to playing a professional sport.
I also think that LFR should remove the pretense of an introduction to raiding since most people just afk it to try and get gear/ap. Just make it a solo que with the lore characters that are trying to topple the big bad at the moment and award ap/gear at the end of the wing. So if you’re a tank the damage you take contributes to downing the boss but dangerous enough that you have to know when to use cds. If you’re a healer the healing you do helps bring down the boss and without saying if you’re dps the damage you do brings down the boss. This would prevent afking and be good for the hyper casuals and give them a chance to see the content without fear of being harassed.
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I don’t really forget to use my essences, they’re so powerful and you can’t really keep up with others without having/using them now. But I agree so much with the essences being really boring, there’s nothing special about them at all really, even some of my range and meele classes are using the same essences… feels so lame.
I really wish they’d be class specific at the least, it’d make grinding for them on my alts feel a lot more worth it for me. Just like in legion with our artifact weapons, then you could at least have something specific to work for, if you understand?
Legion’s artifact weapon and legendary armor pieces were far superior to what we’ve got now. I’ve actually gotten sad the last couple times my alts have leveled out of that content.
But people complained that they didn’t get their BiS when they needed it. Their raids dropped them for someone who got the uber-legendaries.
So now we’ve got this pablum. The essences aren’t a total disaster, and a few of the azerite abilities are kinda cool, but overall it’s a huge letdown compared to what we had in Legion.
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The people that complained they didn’t get legendaires didnt do content and expected to get them. Now they get raid quality gear from world quests. Both systems feel bad but the legion one at least rewarded people that played the game for more than 15 minutes at a time.
Only getting my alts to 120 and decking the out in free BOA gear. Not bothering with anymore grinds then necessary.
Once was enough
I use Hekili, so never forget to use any of the abilities I need!
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I go and plug them in… but only because mechagon junk takes up so much inventory space I want to get rid of them. I haven’t really looked at the essences since it is just a hamster wheel time-gate and I’ve had enough of those for a lifetime.
I wish you could delete them or something… or just apply them to the boat anchor of azeroth without having to go all the way to silithus for no reason.
What a load of rubbish. I was raiding heroic, did emissaries every day etc - I got a steady constant stream of legendaries but it was still roughly a year until I got my BiS one (which was a massive DPS increase). The first 4 I got were the trash tier ones that you only wore for ilvl because they were that bad. The 5th was the corruption slow ring which was at least useful, even if not a real DPS increase. 6th was Prydaz.
The problem with the Legion legendary system wasn’t the method of acquisition, it was the fact that they put massive DPS increasing playstyle fixing/changing ones in there, on a completely RNG drop. If they were all utility like Prydaz, corruption ring etc it would have been fine.