The 2400 rating requirement is kind of insane and really the major outlier bottleneck of the entire thing. I’m honestly a bit surprised Blizzard didn’t lower it to something in line with the +15 keys or Mythic Azshara (which is a tier old, so obviously susceptible to outgearing in a way that Arena clearly can’t be).
When all is said and done, the achievement won’t be for people who were “really good at everything,” which seems to have been the intent behind everything else. Really good won’t cut it for the 2400 requirement, you need to be among the best.
The achievement is basically going to be “the very best PvP players, who also were willing to grind a bunch of far less intense PvE tasks for a title.”
We’re increasing the drop rate of Rank 4 Essences for eligible players as they open more Rustbolt Resistance, Ankoan/Unshackled, Rajani, and Uldum Accord Paragon caches. This change will also be retroactive and will count the Paragon caches that were opened in the past.
Ok, that’s nice and all, but it doesn’t change that this mechanic (emissary/paragon caches) is pure garbage. From vanilla through WOD factions worked that once you did the 42k rep grind to exalted, that’s it, you were done and got all the rewards. Now factions work: grind 42k rep and then start the endless treadmill of 10k segments for a microscopic chance to get a reward. It’s so completely transparent and shameless. The only purpose for this to exist is to increase timeplayed metrics. Can anyone actually say with a straight face that this is good for the game, makes it better or more interesting?
Funny story, I happened to get an Ankoan paragon cache (probably my 2rd or 3rd) without really trying recently (haven’t really bothered grinding rep this expac). Hell, I’m still only revered with Uldum accord and Rajani. But guess what popped out of my paragon cache
I don’t have the toy though but the toy is lame anyway. Who wants to hear those stupid NPCs again lmao.
Great change, but I feel some of these things should be there from the release of them… for example the triumph of gnomeregan music roll from steel singer freza for the meta achievement of mechagon, released 25th june… that I’ve been daily farming since september and still can’t get to drop…9 months of leaving a toon on an island and logging in daily to wait 30 mins for it to spawn and be disappointed again is 0 levels of fun : /. I’m sure people were feeling the same about rng drops for this rank 4 essence.
Please blizz, change the redonculous grinds seen all over this (and in a fair few cases last) xpac T_T.
I wanna know if it’s live now. I can earn a paragon tonight for uldum. Will just bank rep toward 19999 until I have to turn in, while I wait for feedback on this.
