Essences on alts

and this is why I am not spending any more money on this game, They wanna ignored the community then no reason for them to spend money on this game.

Unrelated note, i love your guild name.

Fun fact I gquit this guild 6+ months ago but it doesn’t reflect on the forums.

Yup games screwed up bad, its gonna die.

Eventually, but they pushed really hard to bring in new blood with their aggressive advertising campaign and since they don’t know anything but how awful BFA was but maybe from their perspective it wasn’t so bad.

They’ll stay around for awhile if shadowlands makes enough casual content to keep them occupied long enough that activisionblizzard to sell them some store mounts.

The rest of the people still playing are those that feel like they have to because they’ve invested so much time into the game that it feels bad to just quit now otherwise all that time was a wasted investment.

I’m still subbed and derp around a little bit at a time but absolutely hate world quests and all of that garbage. I don’t like the random titanforged affixes on gear and the corruption mechanics.

I want to get gear and it just be gear. I don’t want to get a piece of gear and feel like it’s a cheap knockoff of the actual item I want. BFA has literally killed my drive to do PVE content off any kind.

In 8.2 I was raiding on 8 characters and gave up because to be optimal you had to spend stupid amounts of time grinding glyphs to attach to your glyph page to be where you’d normally be at by default by just playing the game in prior expansions.

Just linking this to prove that I’m not talking out my rear.

game for me has died back in cata. Legion was a close fix cause they did some good ideas but before and after nothing has interested me. None of the class changes are interesting at all. the new content looks boring and its gonna be the same old bs luck grind as now.

2005: I shouldn’t have to grind The Unstoppable Force, or rank 14 again, I’ve already done it once. Said no one ever, because you just understood.

2005 you might have had 2-3 characters max level to play and grinding gear actually ment something

  1. Here just take a full set of 430 gear for doing quests. Oh and here is a cloak, you already know the story and your gonna get the cloak cause its not hard but lets now allow players to skip anything cause we are blizzard and the more pointless ways we keep playing online, the more money we make.

I thought I was going to dislike it, but I was able to get most of the necessary essences on my alts just by doing world quests for 2 weeks. I can’t tell you how great it was only having to grind sprockets for vision of perfection on one character.

You didn’t unlock them though, not on the alt in question. But now you have a much easier way of unlocking them. Character power has never been account bound, and never should be.

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You are “literally” Incorrect. The daily emissary rewards enough of the Echoes to buy an essence each week by itself, not counting the the ones you get by doing horrific visions, assaults, and from several other sources. I have a total of four level 120 characters, and all of them have the same rank 3 essences now.

Honestly, if they were going to do a token system for purchasing the abilities, it would have been better for them to have it run off your main so you could simply buy the essence and send it to an alt.

Save me from running horrific visons 300 times not essences

It should be, The game is boring and too effortless with just 1 character. Various story quest and events are skipable on alts so why isnt this one? they are picking and choosing what is and isnt account bound. Characters are part of the account, Give players the option to choose what they want to replay and what they want to skip.

Casual player.

All my leveled alts (6) have all the essences that the main has. (that arent class specific)

Isn’t hard.

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Took me like 2 weeks or so to get my hunter 4 essences. Albeit one is the flame one that you can quest out. It’s far faster than trying to grind out all the essences on your alts and seems like a reasonable catchup method.

That’s the point though. They want you to play your alt to get stuff. Ion acknowledged this at some point recently in that they probably shouldn’t be forcing the same exact content down your throat each time on all your characters, but that you will have to play your alts to have them geared. They don’t want you to have a one-stop shop main that just feeds power into your alts.

And the essence catchup system is far faster than trying to grind out the essences on your alts so it’s kind of win-win.

I honestly can’t believe people are complaining that the current system is too hard or too much work or whatever. If you play your alts at all you will get bis in weeks.

People really will complain about anything. I feel sorry for blizz.

and yet here you are still paying to play it and whine on the forums. The game has too many account wide systems as is. There’s no need for anything more to be made account wide.

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I hate having to grind all the stuff out on alts but it’s only a couple weeks. I just want my instant gratification now.

It takes maybe two weeks, three of you really slack off. And that’s to get a rank 3 for every slot.

How is this not better? Because you have to actually do stuff to get the reward? Why do people want alts but get mad that they have to play them to get the things they want for them?

Did you expect a full set of 475 gear with corruptions and a cookie on login? Y’all make no sense.

Man, your entire world is just coming apart at the seams, huh?
You get them by actively playing the game.
If you’re not actively playing the game, you don’t get them.