Or you know, you can acknowledge we were right and read their post correctly and they did this on purpose which is why feedback is needed.
I’m not renewing unless they fix this. I wanted to work on a healing alt but I’m not about to grind 30k honor again, m+ for 2+ months (cause no way in getting into +10s with sub optional essences), etc.
This is COMPLETELY against the entire idea of this system, to give people an alternate way to unlock essences on alts after you’ve done the grind once.
I’m glad to see someone else sees the issue here. I feel so cheated that I didn’t do the essence grind on a Paladin or Monk or a Druid.
You were indeed right…blizzard truly is a company run by complete dumb…ahem I mean…yeah…maybe they’ll realize their stupidity and make a change within the next week.
It applies equally to healer or tank mains that never bought the DPS version of an essences as well. Or at least that is how it was with the Mythic+ and raid versions of essences.
I wouldn’t even mind it if they restrict hybrid mains to a single essence unlock on their alt.
But no. People who main hybrids already have all these essences. Alts have been practically impossible to play before today, so people who main pure DPS or something like warrior are being punished because we can’t access the role essences for our alts without doing the Same exact grind again. Something they literally say is the reason this system was added.
I acknowledge this, but you also have to take into account hybrids would have naturally gotten enough for their alt specs just doing content regularly. Pure DPS did not have that option.
Wowhead even made a news post about this nonsense from Blizzard
Blizzard, those restrictions to role specific essences on pure DPS mains make no sense and should be removed.
You can just login to this healer or tank, go to vendor and buy it, but pure DPS class can’t do that despite having completed all requirements.
Wait, so your saying that if a tank main never bought the DPS version of (for example) the ET trinket they can still buy the DPS trinket on their alts? The way I understood it is you could only buy the ones you unlocked, with the exception being the two reputation ones?
If that is the case, then the OP has a very valid point that needs to be addressed.
If you as a Demon Hunter ground out all of the essences available to you (which are only DPS and Tanking), you would be unable to give your Healer alt half of the healing essences at rank 3.
Not because you didn’t earn them, but because it was just completely unavailable to you during your essence grind.
The most blatant example is the Battleground Honor essences, which is a one and done for classes that can be all 3 roles. But you as a demon hunter only receive 2/3 of them. So if you decided you wanted to have all essences on your healer, you would have to regrind it for the healing one.
This gives favor to multi-role classes, and punishes limited role classes.
No, I mean you can do that on your tank/healer main to unlock it for your alts. Those with pure DPS mains can’t do that because they can’t unlock tank/healer essences AT ALL.
Or one could say it is the pay off for having to maintain gear and AZ traits for different builds?
Edit = I meant essences not AZ traits 
It has nothing to do with gear or AZ traits.
Don’t forget the Eternal Palace essence, which is by far the most punishing.
PuGs dont exist for it anymore, and the rare ones that do get filled with heroic geared people trying to get things like Ashvane’s Razor Coral at a high ilvl. They have zero reason to bring someone without a very high ilvl as it will fill with them.
In LFR? The Eternal Palace essence will take 6 months. Nyalotha takes around 10 months.
Sorry I meant essences, as someone who is filling more than one role would have to spend more time gearing up and getting the correct essences. It’s not like I could tank in my DPS ones
I do agree it is a little cheap how they did it…
Are you seriously trying to imply pure dps don’t have multiple builds and don’t gear their 3 specs?
I have a set of azerite gear for each spec, a set of primal rage and a set of Dance of Death for beast mastery AND a set for wildfire infusion and a set of blur of talons.
I guarantee you pure DPS have more builds they have to get AZ gear for.
So if you main a Druid you’re good. If you main a Rogue/Warlock/Mage/Hunter, you’re doomed.
Are you seriously trying to imply that the same is not also true for hybrid builds? It is no uncommon for hybrid builds to have different setups for each role. For example a tank might have a mythic+ and a raid build. Or a DPS might have an AOE and single target one.
You actually never had to leave your DPS spec to learn all your tanking essences. If you learn all available essences for DPS from a specific source, the game would either tell you so you could swap specs and have it give it to you or it would just give you another specs essence that was available to you.
Look it is pretty clear this system was put in place pretty quickly and I am sure we will see some adjustments over the next week or so. Maybe this will be one of them, as it is kind of silly going back and trying to do older content for what is currently BIS essences.
The only thing I’ll admit is that your suspicions turned out to be true. Over half of my guild as well as many others thought the same as I did. So at it was written… it was taken 2 ways and not one.
I would simply say “bye” to you at this point. Have a small amount of patience and let it work it self out and if it doesn’t then leave.