… The essences I need for a particular class are fairly arbitrarily assigned to certain content, however.
The essence I want to heal M+, for example, comes from dailies. Honestly, a fair amount of them come from just rep grinds and dailies - which is what I was referring to.
They’re doled out extremely arbitarily - my DPS got their BiS without even having to do anything, or get any rep.
Perhaps the answer to this frequent complaint toward essences is not to argue generally. Maybe we should look at essences on a case by case basis and work from there to what might be more reasonable, less grindy options.
No classes need particular essences.
They’re alts, you don’t need to min max them to hell and back.
You can heal Mythic+ without it. We were doing +10 keys week one without our healer having even Rank 1 of the Nazjatar essence.
As a tank, I was for the longest time without even Rank 2 of Nullification Barrier, and still could tank at the Mythic raid level.
You’re just vastly over-estimating what you need to accomplish most content you’d want to do on alts. Meaning Mythic +10s, and some Heroic raiding, maybe a few Mythic bosses. You can do any of that without even 3 essence slots.
They’re making 8.2 essences easier to get in 8.3, like they always do with this kind of stuff. Catch-up is for later patches, not current patches.
I suppose. Hopefully 8.3 essences are introduced in a more fun way. 
Alas, I suspect it’ll instead be another wave of topics just like this one (nothing against this topic).
I said want, not need. It’s just annoying that to even have that ability I need to perform content that wasn’t all that entertaining the first time.
If there were a variety of ways to get each essence, I wouldn’t mind so much.
Keep up the good work, OP. You’ll have your reward before you know it! Hard work always pays off.
This isn’t fitness, it’s a video game. There’s no health benefits to alts. I don’t understand why people do something for fun, that is a chore and not fun to them either.
As much as I agree with you. You dont really need to grind everything. Pick and chose and it’s ok not to have everything on alt. They are alts. If you’re pressured to grind it then it’s a “you” issue
ok mr lvl 66 heart, i just came back 2 weeks ago from a 6 month break and I am already at 65 almost 66. I can already tell you’re the typical “mythic raider” that only logs on for raid to get carried and 1 m+ weekly and thats it. Puts no effort into the game and expects things handed to them.
This makes no sense you can’t just log in after months and get all essences your missing his point. He’s prob 70 on main and all essences r3 no one wants to do these crap quests and farm honor or drops from op mechanism for four weeks. It’s bad design horrible and I hope they fired whoever thought of just the smallest part of it.
So… you hated it the first time, totally hated it the second time, totally for real hated it the third time, and the fourth time is where you totally for realsies pinky swear draw the line?
Given that WoW is purely a leisure activity… is it possible that you doing it three times already suggests that it isn’t actually that bad?
Hey Buddy,
I’m the raid leader of my guild (8/8 Mythic)
My Shaman is 70 with BIS essences,
My Monk is 66 with BIS essences
My priest is 66 with level 2 essences.
Also, imagine having the nerve to post on a thread about essences being account bound when you’re rocking two green essences and a blue on your only character. Like holy get out of this thread, you don’t belong here and you have no experience. My third character has better essences than your main. You are not equipped to participate in this thread. Get out.
Ya it’s a grind, but at least it’s a targetable grind unlike legendaries in legion where you have no control over what legendary you get at all. This is the best way for the system to work. Without the grind there would really be nothing to do.
Sorry, once again you’ve not grinded anything. You’ve done no content yet.
You’re criticizing me with no experience in the field, maybe you should reconsider your decision to continue posting here.
Did you forget no one liking that system either and eventually you could pick your own legendary?
I can’t say I can directly relate, but perhaps they see it as a prerequisite to doing the content they do want to do?
A lot of games have things that’re just absolutely groan worthy, or totally unfun, but you push yourself through them because you know there’s something good on the other side. The Triforce collection quest in the original Wind Waker for example - totally obliterates the pacing at that point in the game, but most will suffer through it because the ending of that game is absolutely top notch.
Them being common doesn’t really make them excusable, of course, it just happens. And even the designers of Wind Waker later course-corrected, making that sidequest much less time-consuming in the remake.
Please for the love of god op don’t do it a third time! I think I’m going to lose my sanity just thinking about it! I’m not even being sarcastic.
Don’t cry for me… I’m already dead…
This is a forum that all of us are allowed to use, if you are looking for an echo-chamber then perhaps this platform isn’t for you. Players of all experience levels and backgrounds can and will post here. This isn’t your personal playground, no matter how much you want it to be.