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How short of time?
I can dumb it down for you if needed. Understand that?
There’s literally no reason to remove the rank 4 essences except to slap every player in the face. Too many of them are RNG based. Especially the ones behind a reputation grind. You grind rep, for a chance at them, only to grind more rep in hopes you get lucky. The fact they are only available for a limited time with them being basically entirely luck based is either a very poorly thought out plan, or an incredibly cruel practical joke.
I hope Blizz reconsiders removing them. As it is I am tempted to not even bother trying to farm them and unsubscribe, as I’ve had enough of that type of stress inducing game design.
Invalidating content has been in the game since Vanilla, outright removing content started in Cata.
I’ve been leveling a hunter and putting together a legit leveling dungeon group is insanely hard even on Sulferon which is a high pop server.
/lookingforgroup is just filled with boost sellers/buyers and a handful of max level dungeon pugs.
It’s so different from when I leveled my warrior when classic came out it’s like a different game.
This is one of the most difficult achievements they have ever added to the game. It is on par with Scarab Lord, imo.
There were some things removed during Vanilla, like the old unarmored epic mounts.
Did you play during Vanilla? You’re correct but during the time I remember the general consensus being that was more of an update to the existing models because there was no way to differentiate between those that had epic riding(it was a pretty big deal to be able to afford the skill/mount when the change happened) so now the updated mounts seemed more epic having armour.
It wasn’t the same kind of Disney Vault situation we have now with Long Boi or some of the cash shop items. We didn’t have a Blizzard token that people could blow money on to get gold and purchase the mounts before they disappeared forever. Cata changed the entire Vanilla world and removed a lot of items from loot tables(which thankfully they’ve finally been adding back to mobs for transmog enthusiasts to farm) but there is still so much that has been outright removed from the game a lot of us wish still existed, especially now that we have transmogs as an example. Removing mounts like Long Boi is just to push players to either play/farm gold and help inflate metrics or blow money on tokens.
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This is exactly why I am considering quitting the game for good, something I hadn’t really put this much thought into before. The game is not the same as it was before and it is no longer fun when they do things like that. I don’t like the forced exclusivity of things by arbitrary removal, and the push for people to obtain them quickly. The AOTC and CE achievements were one thing, I get that, but the Long Boi, the rank 4 essence removal, and many other things are just targeted to get people to panic play to get their last minute prestige from this expansion. Either that or sink money into tokens for gold, as you pointed out. That just makes the game a stressful chore that’s no longer enjoyable or fun. It’s become clearer and clearer to me as to why people are either switching to Classic only or outright unsubscribing, and I am foreseeing myself joining them in the not-so-distant future.
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Yeah Long Boi pisses me off. I mean I might never save up that much gold cause I keep buying rare weapon mogs, but the BM auction house as the only way to obtain one sucks. I don’t get the deal with rank 4 essences though, is it just for an achievement? Once the heart is deactivated during prepatch it’s not like any of the special effects from them will be visible ever again. I’m glad I just obsess over transmog gear and not mounts with how they change mount drops from bosses. I’ve got a Ghastly Charger from the TCG I ride over almost everything and come Shadowlands I’ll finally be able to use my S1 Gladiator Swift Nether Drake across all my characters instead of it being stuck on a Pally I haven’t touched since TBC.
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Yes, it was about the achievement, mostly. But they specified rank 4 essences; so if I am to understand correctly, ranks 1-3 are still obtainable? Why? What would be the purpose of that aside from restricting people from getting the achievement? An achievement which is near impossible in the allotted time due to RNG; it is HEAVILY luck based.
alright Blizzard…
1st off… i would like to say that not everyone has the ability to Generate 5.Mil Via in game or R$$$ to buy that - the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur… like seriously my hands start to hurt after a while, not everyone has had the ability to stay active the whole time this expansion(or any expansion) has been going on due to what ever reason… Taking that mount out of possible Easy purchase is in my perspective non productive… & like i’ll actively ever be able to purchase it once it goes to the BMAH is like almost makes me to no longer want to play any of your games regardless of the Time/$$$ i have invested in all of them that i have access to… regardless of the justification that i give to pay for game time, or to buy expansions - i play for the Story-line… in which that statement is true… regardless of other goals i set for myself after that…
2nd off… upon reviewing this article again i realize that there is no 2nd off, asides the fact that it took me nearly 20.min to figure out how to change who i was writing this statement on… as with probably of most other people, I would prefer to write things on the Main than from an Alt… or perhaps that is just me… as well i’m still not sure how i got it to change from an Alt to the Main…
Basis in General, I bid everyone a Good Day, & As well from another Game - Fly Safe, & Travel Well … o/
i find it terrible the corruption on items will be removed. considering our legendaries work below 115 at the moment, it would be great if the items remains tanited below 120 (or equivalent once the level squish launches).
that would be great for timewalking.
let corrupted items drop ONLY in horrific visions at least.
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I agree. Have corruption only work if you’re at a certain level (BFA threshold) and the items with the corruption effects only drop from horrific visions.
Legion Legendaries still work until you level up so I see no reason as to why they can’t do this with corruption.
And just to add to that, the main part everyone looks to as being the major skill-test of the thing, hitting 2400 rating in PvP, is something that doesn’t get easier when new expansions arrive.
Removing the Rank 4 essences seems like someone on the Blizzard staff, at the last minute, wanting to have that “limited time” feel for a bunch of rewards like they had in Legion with the Mage Tower and not really thinking it through.
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So what is the point of removing the mount? Just a kick in the balls for those of us who don’t get a slot in our raiding group and only get to alt raid on normal mode while the main raid group tackles the big guns?
Why not just add it to the loot table for the final boss come shadowlands so when we can jump in solo we can farm it like so many other raid mounts? Then even those who play casual and like to mount grind can still have a shot at it.
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Legendary items are being removed too, well their effects will be deactivated at least. All the old Legion ones will be like retired set bonuses since we’re getting the new Shadowlands ones and with the level squish. Gonna be really sad losing Skullflowers for timewalking.
I realize that Blizzard won’t give a crap what I say here, but I’m saying it anyways.
I think it’s greedy and horrible that they’re removing the Brutosaur. The other stuff like the AOTC mount is at this point a normalcy they’ve done the last several expansions and I won’t contest that. But they never removed the Grand Expedition Yak, nor the mammoth from Dalaran. Players have had plenty of time to farm up the gold to eventually buy these mounts long after their expansions were over.
This is very clearly a ploy to get more money out of the community by making people buy tokens out of desperation to get the mount before it goes away forever and it’s sickening. Forget “taking gold out of the economy,” people would buy it eventually once they saved enough gold for it if they wanted it, and I was one of many I knew who was on a slow grind to get there one day. Keeping the mount in the game would have kept it as a good, permanent gold sink.
I play casually, and I was gradually saving up to one day be able to buy it, I’m 20% of the way there, but at this rate you want me to spend hundreds of dollars on tokens or spend 40+ hours a week farming/grinding so I get the last 4mil before it goes away?
“Oh it’ll be on the BMAH, hurr. You can buy it when it eventually appears there one day in the very distant future but you’ll be bidding against everyone else who farmed up the gold afterwards and didn’t get the chance to buy it during BFA.”
Greedy jerks.
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“Pennies Before Players”
Remember that… 
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