They literally let you buy whatever legendaries you wanted at the end of legion. You farmed the currency, you bought the legendaries. That was what made legion so much better at the end. It is as if they cannot remember why they do what they did.
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Those numbers look extremely fair to me. Please implement something like this (or have some other form of requirement reduction for alts) at the release of the systems next time, instead of in the final patch cycle.
But that doesn’t fit with Blizzard’s “vision” of trying everything “at least once.” Because me spending 25 hours in bgs is trying it once /s
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Ok, so I logged onto my alt first, and now I cant receive this currency at all on my main? My alt has rank 3 essences too, but my main has all rank 3 and i’m getting none of this currency.
I peed on an electric fence once. Guess I better stick this paper clip into a light socket next time to see if anything is different.
Blizzard logic.
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If your main already has all the essences, why would they need Echoes? On the other hand, if you were meaning to collect them on your alt to buy essences your main has, you need to log in on your main first. Having unlearned essences available to purchase is what enables collection of Echoes, not simply having an R3 essence on the character.
so, reading the bugs of today, im Fcked, i got 2 mains, kajii and uvora, kaji is MM hunter, uvora is prot, retry and i was gearing to healer, if i log in with kaji im out of every other esscence outside dps if i log in with uvora im out of any dps ones? why you make this mess ion? why the grind? we want to play alts for fun, not add more hours of grind time, the day has 24 hours not 72
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While I wouldn’t be opposed to that, this is still a step in a much better direction than what we had previously. If I remember correctly (because I joined in at the tail end of legion) you had to collect 1k of the currency for a chance at a random lego. This gives you the option of targeting specific essences at a pretty high rate of purchase comparatively, so long as those essences have been unlocked by your main toon. Does it kinda suck that I’m still gonna miss out on some DPS traits since I’m a healer, and my alt is a dps with only a handful of the right essences? Sure, but I’m not opposed to running the content actually required to unlock those essences, and then if I have another dps alt I already have that essence unlocked.
I don’t disagree with this in the slightest bit. Echoes should have automatically been an added currency from caches without any kind of prerequisite.
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That, and then basically said “we aren’t helping you, and you’re sh*t out of luck” to the people who made the mistake of logging in on alts.
Ok so nobody should ever complain about anything -any- company ever does, unless they can go do it themselves?
So you don’t believe in “Customer is Always Right” you prefer “You don’t get what you pay for, but you will like it and shut up and keep paying.”
Thankfully that’s not how it works. And yes, Bliz sees the damage of these bad decisions because it drops their revenue. Some will stay, but some won’t. There is a reason WoW is not at the heights it once was.
Sounds like a haven for bugs to me. I hope you all tested this entirely.
Or I played my alt and bought the leggo I wanted because there was nothing RNG about what I needed to do if I wanted to play the alt. Only if I was playing a main and wanted to use the currency to help an alt. YOU CANT EVEN DO THAT WITH THIS SYSTEM
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500 seems steep tbh.
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Like seriously, if a player made it all the way to the twilight of the expansion without getting their BiS essences because they hate the playstyle associated with it that much, what’s the harm in dropping the requirements to a basic wakening essence system at this point?
Who or what is being protected by upholding this stance?
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The thing is I didn’t know I had to log in on my main first. Wtf honestly. That’s so stupid.
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Not really, particularly when you consider the host of methods to obtain them, with some of the sources being uncapped. Long story short… Simply participating in any form of basic 8.3 content as well as your own content of interest will be netting you multiple essences within a week or two of play.
If you’re balking at that, then just admit that you were going to complain unless the prices were literally zero.
Hate to be one of those guys, but you should expect to have to do SOMETHING on your alt, to be even relatively close to your main in terms of power.
Yup, totally understand that. It should have been clearly explained how the system works (including this requirement of logging in on characters with R3 essences first), before it went live. The system could have simply been implemented better, but no matter how they decided to do it, they should have explained it clearly from the start.
There’s nothing RNG about what you need to do here, either. You have a set amount of currency from content, and in return you can buy essences you’ve already unlocked on your other toons. My shaman has blood of the enemy, but this toon doesn’t for WW spec. Guess what, now I can go buy it if I wanted to. Conversely, my Shaman doesn’t have Condensed Life-Force, so now I can go run normal content to get it because I already unlocked it on my druid.
It’s as simple as Blizzard wanting you to run the content for the essence at least once on any character, and then any other character can get it. If you can’t be bothered, especially with many of the essences now having lowered requirements as well, then why are you worried? Effort v reward, my guy.
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Oh, absolutely. That was one of the worst responses they could’ve went with.
They had to know that this could potentially be an issue, before resets. And if they didn’t… well, that just speaks to an unfortunate lack of testing on their end.
I will say, having worked retail before, the customer really isn’t always right and is often an entitled prick.
But in this case, the customer really is right. There’s no good justification for allowing people to be shorted on something they earned, because you couldn’t provide clear instructions beforehand.
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Fair enough, and I’m sure they didn’t intend it to occur that way, which is why they’re notifying people about it. It’s a bug. In the grand scheme of things, this is a really minor problem to be complaining about.