So why is my BiS raiding azerite locked behind exalted mechagon tho. Like believe me, I’m not going back for it, I’ll just fix my rotation for the extra 400 dps but like it’s kinda annoying…I’m okay with doing PvP for an essence for the most part because it’s still like end-game content but to farm mechagon is about as braindead as you can get so I’m not gonna. If blizzard needs to lock the BiS punchards, flying AND BiS essence behind rep then it’s probably really bad content.
Personally would rather everyone just go back to their own content. PvP BiS in PvP. Raid BiS in Raid. M+ BiS in m+ etc.
Edit: So people stop asking or stating, sims were bugged that day. They are correctly display CLF as BiS now. The talk has moved on from BiS. <3
You mean rank 4 is locked behind exalted rep, rank 4 that is, as I understood it, only cosmetic and is useless for raiding, that the one you’re whinging about? Thought so, want some cheese with that whine?
My BiS questing essence is locked behind raiding, why do I have to raid in order to get it?
That is basically what you are saying. Getting exalted with mechagon isn’t hard and it isn’t an unexpected thing. Rep grinds have been a part of the raiding experience for most of the game.
If your gonna be a smart a**, try being a correct one. Enhanced Purification Protocols - Rank 3: obtained via reaching Exalted with Rustbolt Resistance and purchasing from the Quartermaster with 40 S.P.A.R.E. Crates and 15 Galvanic Oscillators.
That’s how it should be…
Condensed life-force most certainly does NOT handle trash the best so your making this wrong argument just to try and justify backwards logic. Condensed life forces CD is too high and its minor isnt great at applying to 4+ trash mobs at the same time that will die before you get usage of the 5% damage buff… Many other essences deal actual AoE damage and have lower cool downs that make them more fit for world content. The only way condensed is BiS questing is for doing world boss so stop.
According to Bloodmallet, your BiS raiding essence is the actual raiding essence, Condensed Life Force, for single target. Even multi-target, Purification Protocol isn’t your BiS or even 2nd best.
Going by Wowhead’s guide, VoP, CFL, and Crucible are your BiS essences. Purification Protocol doesn’t even make their list at the bottom of best overall essences for you.
(Presuming your armory is correct, and your spec is Demonology)
Demonology is only viable on 2 fights and even then affliction can match it or beat it. I’m demo because last raid night ended on zaqul. One of the fights where demo is viable. I also only run character specific sims.
Edit: Looking at bloodmallet Im not sure where there data comes from because it’s trying to tell me rank 2 of iris does less dmg than rank 1. So the accuracy seems shot to me. All I know is now my RL wants me to farm mechagon and when I check my personal character sim had purification at BiS
Ok. Affliction BiS raiding essence is still CLF, single- or multi-target. So says Bloodmallet.
Wowhead is even more against your point. Doesn’t list Purification Protocol as a top-tier essence, only a mid-tier situational-at-best essence.
Maybe your playstyle just likes PP better than the rest. But considering that even just doing the 1 daily quest is 850 rep daily with Rustbolt, getting to exalted isn’t really a problem. Certainly not one that can’t be begrudgingly done if the reward is something that you enjoy at the expense of not being the best for your class.
Edit: It’s also wierd because my RL did actually link me blood mallet and it had pure + condense doing the most damage by over 10% more. So maybe sims were shot that day. I’ll re-run my personal character sim tonight and see if I get a different result because before I simmed myself on that day my BiS was supposed to be condensed rank 3 + crucible and that’s what it looks like it is again.
Purification Protocol is straight up a bad essence for warlocks. The major is awful. Iris is better for AoE. The minor is decent for m+ but not amazing.
So? What makes one better than the other activity. There must be lots of players who don’t see PVP as end-game but there is an essence there… There is also essences that have you do body-guard dailies for 20 days which is boring as hell to get a really good Essence for some specs. Maybe not BiS but I’m not trying for Condensed life force anytime soon it seems lol.
I get players want to do their activity to get what they want but Blizzard gave us a big heads up on how this system will work from the beginning.
Nothing that’s why if you would please point yourself to this sentence:
Personally would rather everyone just go back to their own content. PvP BiS in PvP. Raid BiS in Raid. M+ BiS in m+ etc.
In a ideal would no one is doing content that is dull to them but blizzard has conditioned people to accept the 2000’s game design that the only grind has to be dull grind. I don’t think any modern game genre uses this method outside MMOs and even then the newer MMOs in development are taking note of this and trying to move outside of it. Dull pointless grind to be dull pointless grind is outdated.
Can’t disagree, but you know that’s not going to happen, and they won’t change anything this expansion except for buffing or nerfing an essence. Past that you have my sympathies lol.
Doing boring content is still boring but we can’t have it always our way. I wish I could have a Guild and raid and be awesome, change alts and not have to re-grind the essences I need but Ion pooped on that pipe dream so I move on and do the bare minimum for my main.
How I want to obtain an essence would require reworking the system. I would rather players do end-game content, get tokens from their end-game content and use those tokens to buy whatever essence they want or upgrade it. Since most essences are time-gated anyway put a weekly limit on how many tokens you can get and just let players do their own content for their own essences.
Edit: For world quest players, you could rework the base essence to do aoe splash and increwased damage while in Nazjatar, Kultiras and Zandalar thus making the BiS world content a world content essence. It would progress like it does today by leveling up your neck.
blizz didnt actually design these things to be the best where you get them from. they designed them so that you can earn them by doing your favorite activity.
like living on mechagon? well theres an essence for that.
like islands? theres an essence for that.
like pvp? well theres an essence for that too!
your BiS is actually one of the easiest to obtain. to come here and complain you have to do mechagon is bullsh^t because guess what? you get 1000 rep a day for doing the 2 WQ on the island. one is a pet battle and the big one is kill 3 rares, open 6 chests, or just do stuff on mechagon.
either tell them you arent going to be some kind of minmax hero or suck it up and do it.
Your RL probably linked the Hectic Add Cleave sim, which does show PP high up there. However that sim model isn’t particularly optimized for warlocks and isn’t that accurate.
