I don’t think it’s fair to look at worst vs best essence and no vs BiS corruption. It’s not typically that extreme.
It’s more compare to the relatively simple to acquire essences vs the time gates ones. Things like meme beam and crucible are impossible to not get. And the BotD is really strong for being easy to get.
And corruptions will come with time. Drops can be traded, etc.
So what the Op is saying is they can out dps anyone with their rank 1 WIS essences vs the same class with their BIS rank 3/4 essences and would also do that with no corruption vs them with avg/above avg corruption gear…
The first line is my toon as is simming at 54k ST dps (full ST is 55k as I usually use crucible). The second line is me systematically going through every choice on my current gear set up and deliberately choosing the wrong choice. Over and over, choosing wrong, wrong, wrong.
This amounts to a loss of… Drum roll please… 21,436k dps… AND I don’t even have good corruption pieces on my gear… If I had rank 3 infinite stars, it’d be a 30-35k dps drop…
Please… Stop acting like min/maxing doesn’t matter.
This notion that you can just ignore massive throughput bonuses like that is absurd.
Tell you what - disable AP, essences, and corrupted bonuses in raids, ranked pvp, and m+ - then sure you can make a compelling case that it isn’t “required”.
You’re not wrong, but at the end of the day, all of these little bits and bobs add up. And it makes for quite a shopping list to acquire them all to actually feel like you’re not the weak link in your desired content. Particularly if you’re trying to push into content that you personally find challenging.
Plenty of bosses have abilities that cannot be interrupted and almost all are immune to stun.
Every single boss in the game as well as PvP scenarios will benefit from more throughput on all of your spell casts (especially if your interrupt/stun is on cd).
I don’t get your point. I’m saying good players aren’t good because they checked off a list of Essences, they’re good because they know how to do mechanics and properly control encounters.
You know what players don’t help kill bosses ? The ones that are Floor PoV. No amount of gear is going to get you off floor PoV if you can’t do mechanics.