I'm doing the essence grind a third time

[Zeusgodofsky-thrall (Zeusgodofsky)]

I agree with real life but i try my best to keep both separate when i play online.There making next expansion alt friendly so there that.

[Timboslizzle-frostmourne]

Both require time, which unfortunately is a resource dedicated to Real life.

But forcing me to redo boring content it’s wasting my time when there are hundreds, thousands of other things begging for it.

[Zeusgodofsky-thrall (Zeusgodofsky)]

I see what you mean only thing i can say is blizzard has noted that for next expansion sadly.

[Dîzzy-hyjal]

I mean if you’re pushing alts into mythic raids then you shouldn’t be surprised you have to actually work on your character a bit in order to progress it. I don’t see an issue at all, except you wanting something handed to you.

[Rålph-nagrand]

Oh god why did you remind me I have to do that on my pandaren dk in 8.3 ;_;

[Elynos-sargeras (Elynos)]

Good thing there is forging. Your gear needs a lot of work so you could do m+ heroic and mythic raid get to glad. Or go back and finish the raid tiers you haven’t completed between uldir and cots

[Spacewaifuu-stormrage]

The only hard one to get is blood of the enemy

Blood of the enemy is not bad at all. If you just no life it you can get it done much quicker than the gated ones.

[Hagustus-grobbulus]

You are complaining about playing a completely optional game

[Milanis-stormrage-799829]

Idk why essences aren’t account wide yet. I’m rep grinding through Nazjatar and Trash Gnomes again even though my Mage is exalted with both.

It’s not fun. I hate rep grinds. But I want to do M+ on this character and the essences are too important to skip.

[Kegeo-drenden]

Having to work on a character is just fine - and in fact the norm.

The problem with essences is that the content you have to play to actually get them (especially to get them to a reasonable level) isn’t all that fun to begin with. It’s not unfun the first time, when the novelty’s still there and the zones are still new, but quickly becomes agonizing on repeat playthroughs.

I don’t even play that hard, but I do want a couple of my alts to have some decent essences - I’m not the greatest player, I’ll fully admit I want them as something of a crutch. … But I just can’t bring myself to do those grinds again, even if they’re ‘only’ 2 weeks long.

I just wish there were more than one way to get rep. I don’t mind World Quests, dailies, etc. - but when they’re the only option, they grate on you quick.

[Timboslizzle-frostmourne]

Or go back and finish the raid tiers you haven’t completed between uldir and cots

This is by far the worst suggestion I’ve ever seen on this forum ever.

Literally ever.

[Duffle-frostmourne]

Answer is easy, don’t play alts. Your main needs work.
Also they are alts for a reason. They don’t need to be maximized and theorycrafted to the max that’s what your main is for. It isn’t even that hard to get some decent enough essences. The only hard one to get is blood of the enemy

“Your 8/8m main needs work and please stop enjoying things that I don’t like”

Gottem

[Timboslizzle-frostmourne]

See my biggest gripe is people keep saying “Ah it’s not that hard”, no there really inst a single essence that is difficult to get up to rank 3, depending on the skill of someone getting some rank 4s may be near impossible (The arena one for me!).

It’s the fact that you’re piece mealed out the essences each day/week. Oh i see you’ve done mechagon this week well see you next week for your mechagon, to do 2 more mechagons after that.

[Apoxey-thrall]

i refuse to do this crap again for a 3rd time. probably wont even do it in 8.3 after the “nerfs”.

the process of getting an alt playable at the level of content i enjoy is less fun than actually doing the content I enjoy.

when im done playing on my one character im just going to log out, instead of spending more time in the game playing because blizzard refuses to fix the system.

“imagine if wow was a buffet where you could enthusiastically enjoy the content you like instead of a gauntlet where you have to drag your mildly animated corpse through several weeks of grind” ~Hekili

[Kypookins-baelgun (Kypookins)]

I decided I don’t need the best stuff; Really being “casual”, don’t need the stuff at all. I’m sticking to the ones that don’t require other people.

So I got 3 rank fire thingie, which is not bad to get.

For minor thingie I’m doing nullifier, with 8 more crates to get for second rank.

Have not even started on my 2 120 “other mains.” I might not even bother, or if I do I’ll do other ones. Not even sure what BM Hunter and Holy Priest go for, again probably won’t get the “best.”

There was no way I was going to do the Island Expedition “best” one.

the process of getting an alt playable at the level of content i enjoy is less fun than actually doing the content I enjoy.

I can really feel that, this expansion. Feel sorry for you non-casual types. By “casual” I don’t really mean time played, rather I mean I just do whatever, usually soloing. If you want to do mythics or raiding, this stuff would be pretty rough! I mean, I’d probably be doing stuff in Mechagon ANYWAY, but the crate farming thing gets boring (and is limited, per day.)

The ironic/backwards thing, is that for the content some people like to do they have to collect an essence which is in the content they DON’T want to do.

It would make more sense if for people who wanted to do mythics, they got the essence/upgraded it in the Mythics they LIKE DOING.

I remember how in Legion it was Legendarys, but they kind of fell from the sky. After boosting this character, with the BFA preorder boost, I had 2 of the BIS Blood DK ones in under two weeks; That was before your other character could help.

[Timboslizzle-frostmourne]

Your gear needs a lot of work

Also hold up sorry, I skipped over this because the second part of your post was so silly but what do you mean my gear needs a lot of work? What part of my gear needs a lot of work?

I’m going to go ahead and just assume based on the quality of your reply you have no idea how strong a leech/socket piece is and you just saw 420/425 Ilvl and started talking.

Don’t comment on this thread if you’re so woefully ignorant of how the game works.

[Revolution-emerald-dream]

You must love pain, my friend.

[Baspirath-sargeras]

The problem with essences is that the content you have to play to actually get them (especially to get them to a reasonable level) isn’t all that fun to begin with.

It’s all the same content you play anyway.

You raid, you get an essence.
You Mythic+, you get an essence.
There are 2 PvP essences.
You like WQs/Dailies, there are essences.
You even get 1 free essence, it just auto upgrades with your neck.

If all that content isn’t fun, what the heck do you even need essences for ? Pet battles don’t need essences.

[Eithris-doomhammer]

Answer is easy, don’t play alts. Your main needs work.
Also they are alts for a reason. They don’t need to be maximized and theorycrafted to the max that’s what your main is for. It isn’t even that hard to get some decent enough essences. The only hard one to get is blood of the enem

i will never understand this counter-argument against account wide essences. i really don’t.

“these other people would like to do something i don’t care about, but i’m going to argue against it because it bothers me that they might be able to…”

if you only play one character, giving the rest of us more alt-friendly options does not affect you AT ALL. not one bit. zilch. nada. zip.

you and everyone like you are just as bad as griefers, getting your kicks off making life more miserable for other people.

[Eret-hyjal (Eret)]

This Character is 7/8 Mythic and I raid lead a 4/8 Mythic Alt run with this character now

Dang dude. Go big or go home it seems. Keep at it.

The essence grind is bleh i feel for those that have the pvp as bis