There are way too many things pulling for Echoes of Ny’alotha at the moment.
Malefic Cores
Vessels
Rank 3 Essences
Corruptions
There needs to be some adjustment made in order to make getting these on alts either easier, or the more difficult content needs to have it’s echo value increased.
Right now it feels like for the amount of time spent, there is very little reward gained. For example, if I win a 3v3 game at 2700+ CR, I get roughly 125 echoes of ny’alotha.
If I were to complete a +20 Mythic dungeon, I’d get 300 echoes. If we were to go off of wanting to purchase a single 12% stat amplifier, I’d need 5000 echoes.
This would mean I’d need to do 17 +20 Mythic dungeons in order to purchase a singular stat amp.
If I wanted to only do arena, I’d have to win 40 3v3 games at 2700CR+, assuming I go 50-50 against the best players in NA, I’d have to play 80 games.
This personally feels like its way too much effort and not enough reward for the amount of time required, especially since we’re in need of R3 essences as well. Please adjust the prices down, and increase the rate at which we acquire these.
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The arena rewards are especially far too low. The best way to farm your echoes if you’re a top end pvper is to que for arena, enter the match and hit the enemy one time, then leave so that you lose CR/MMR.
You do this until you’re fighting new players, and you smurf until you farm all your echoes in quick games. It makes for a horrible experience for new players.
If you do the weekly invasion events, you’d have enough stuff to buy vessels without wasting the echoes, and you only need to do one 5-mask a week to get the 470 gear. If you are after fast echoes, you just run the 0-mask visions for 700~ish echoes per run.
So, for 2000 echoes? Looking at 3 runs, so <30 minutes.
5000 Echoes? 7 runs so just a little over an hour, assuming there are no other sources included.
I think the OP’s point is that there are quite a few things competing for echoes before you can start/should start using them on malefic cores.
Only saving grace might be that in order to get to 15 you need 15 visions and if you can full clear them from the beginning (get carried) you might have enough echoes to clear out the deficit created from just buying up your rank 3 essences (assuming you aren’t fresh to 8.2 in which case you are just hosed).
You will then get another deficit until you are sufficiently caught up in resistance, before you can focus on saving for the corruptions themsleves like the rest of us.
So this solution is far from perfect.
They should have:
Allowed visions to drop cores regardless of cloak level (still only usable at 15)
Allowed visions to drop cores until you are caught up (essentially making it a trade for coalescing currency rather than echo currency).
So the current solution is a nice try but definitely far far from perfect.
It falls to a difference of opinion here. The assaults and visions you do yield the most echoes with the methods you mention being steady ways to farm echoes but giving less for the time invested.
Given that we are getting the ability to farm corruptions at all on top of other methods to obtain corrupted gear I am happy with the system as it is.
With that said it would only be to our benefit to have this implemented so I don’t object to it either.
Correction, I’m very happy about them adding an additional way for us to catch up. However, as was clear to pretty much everyone else in this thread, the issue is:
I just look at my pile of currencies that could be used to buy three more Expedient 3s.
Sure, you’re soft-gated at 3 per week, but the reward to effort ratio is vastly in favor of low effort/high reward on Visions more than anything else. Face-to-wall grinding in other methods are obviously the least-efficient ways to get echoes.