There's no reason for new players to invest into this game

[Rålph-barthilas]

That’s the issue, external system these days account to almost more than 50% of your character’s power, in the past it was just about gear, now it is locked behind grinds.
See the math here

External power rental systems need to go

Especially ones that instead of being the final 10% of your character’s power end up being 50% making them mandatory for all serious content. -First it was azerite, then essences, now rng corrupted gear. AND NONE OF THEM WERE EASY TO AQUIRE. Azerite gear were either RNG or grinded through timegated weekly m+ caches reward -Essences were extremely grindy, forcing people to do content they hated and many times were also timegated for almost a month or more. -Corrupted gear with no vendor are c…

When most of your DPS comes from external systems, its hopeless