I didn’t do the essence grind so this isn’t really something I have personal stock in but I’m willing to bet in the coming days you get some QQ about having to spend 500 of the currency for 1 essence on every alt
OH THE HORROR passively getting rank 3 essences by playing the game! MAKE IT EASIER!!!
/s
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I am not talking about getting sockets… I am talking about getting r3 essences.
Hence why I said “they should have made essences just account wide” so we can focus on just running visions.
It’s not weekly locked. You can spam M+
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QQ threads on just about every aspect in the game occurs on forums by now 
I’m sure they are used to it.
Most of it comes from weekly stuff, assaults/wqs/warfronts.
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“And given us more vision to do more visions…”
That’s a quote from you if you scroll up
We get plenty of visions / keys
Edit: this is a rely to comment 43
3 per keystone level is huge. Get your friends to carry you through a 15 and that’s 45 essence- after your weekly content.
And don’t say “ppl don’t carry ppl through 15.” I’ve carried a bunch of IL 430-450 friends through 15-17s
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i mean i want all of essences at once, can i get 4 essences in one hour, i guess not.
45 essence getting carried throught a +15, 50 to do an emissary. I mean, I think it’s obvious what content they want you to do.
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This looks great. I appreciate that you’ve looked for a happy medium between what you want for the game, and what we as players would like as well. I think this is a fair compromise.
Any reason why there’s no reward from Island Expeditions? These are one of my favourite things to run each week - would love to be able to get Echoes from doing them.
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You can get 1 per hour if you just spam full clear visions
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if only there were more Swålshes in the world
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Probably because IEs are universally the most hated content in the game now ? They’re even worse than WarfrontS
They don’t even help level your neck efficiently. If I do one, it’s 0.02% of a neck level. Even WQs are better
People want everything handed to them. 
Not sure why they’re mad about having to run content on the alt they wanna play. At least it’s fun content and not dailies and boring questlines.
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This honestly confuses me. What goals? While I can’t speak for the majority, the end content IS what many of us enjoy. It’s the experience of doing the raids, pvp, M+, etc. that is fun. NOT all of the stuff that allows us to get there.
There isn’t enjoyment in receiving an item that is essential to your toon being relevant. When EVERYONE at your level of play has a certain item, i.e. essence, it’s a requirement, not a goal. That then creates a barrier to play. A barrier to the things you actually want to do. If the content you do does’t reward you the thing you need to DO that content, in my mind, something is off.
PvP didn’t get better when PvE players felt required to PvP for essences. Likewise, PvE didn’t get better when PvP players felt required to do M+ or Raid.
But it’s not once. It’s weeks or possibly months to earn a certain essence depending on your schedule. Gated content rewards players for logging in every day. Even when I have a lot of time on the weekend, I can quickly cap out all my ‘tasks’ for the day leaving me with nothing to do. The day to day gating of content and items has been a frustrating design.
The take away from Legion should have been that those gates make for a terrible gaming experience. When legendaries and AP weren’t at the front of our mind, we could actually enjoy the game for what it was. In BFA, we saw the opposite as requirements to play the game ramped up. Maintaining alts became significantly more difficult… to the point we had to leave them behind and only focus on one toon.
I know the devs and designers put a lot of thought into this, but the game feels substantially different then it once did. I wish it would take some notes from previous expansions relative to time required to keep a toon relevant.
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The only fix I see that’s needed is
- LFR Nzoth - 1,000 (100 for every stack of determination you suffered through)
You know, to match the apparent difficulty.
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They are saying they think it’s reasonable to expect every one of your alts to do every piece of content in the game.
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Nothing is a requirement. I don’t even know if I’m using the right essences while I’m DPSing 15s and I still usually top the meters (while I a group of equally geared ppl)
But what about the battleground honor essence. If I receive the 30k bg honor on a Paladin/Druid/Monk, I automatically receive the all 3 roles versions with no other effort. This post doesn’t address that issue raised from the last post that the essence has to be learned. Anyone who isn’t a Druid/Monk/Paladin main has to regrind it for the role they want on the alt according to the previous, is this a misinterpretation or is it just going to be unfair?
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