Why do we need pocopoc energy to do the puzzle to unlock a cache?

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For some reason after doing a skirmish my pocopoc dropped to 1 energy from previously having full energy. I’m not sure what happened or if this was a bug - but anyway, I was then trying to do the quest to open one of the puzzle boxes and I can’t even attempt it until pocopoc regains his energy :frowning:.

I know it doesn’t take too long for him to get some more energy, but it’s sort of annoying to just have to wait now - and it’s made me wonder about why we should need pocopoc energy to do a puzzle to unlock the cache. I totally understand including the pocopoc energy requirement to skip the puzzle, but I’m just not sure if the energy to do the puzzle makes much sense.

Just looking to see if anyone has any thoughts for, or against, pocopoc energy being required to do the puzzle chests.

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Blizzard thinks systems and time gating are acceptable replacements for content.

Doubt me?

BFA and SL’s both do it…

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Yeah, it’s kind of stupid that we need to spend energy just to do the puzzle ourselves. Didn’t have to do that in Naz and there were puzzles everywhere there.

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Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. It seems weird to include it here under an almost identical circumstance.

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It is weird in a way, but I think it’s a way for him to help “translate” so you can interact with the puzzle. I could be totally wrong.

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This make more sense then my take on it of “They hate us”.

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It prevents players from basically farming Cyphers with Bots.

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They’ve done it far longer than BFA

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I…

I think I didn’t want to admit that Legion was basically an, “Oh $#!&!” knee jerk reaction.

Still, it was at least one of the few times they attempted to work at all.

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I’m kind of obsessed with pococpopco but losing all your energy after a skrim is super lame

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Sadly, both can be true.

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Are there ones you can do outside of the WQs? I see people talk about puzzles a lot and I’ve only ever done two, both for a WQ, and both auto unlocked by my lil Pocoboi.

Who’s a good lil lock picker? WHO IS? IS IT Y… sorry.

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I feel like I did some that were outside the wq, but I’m not 100% sure. I think they had puzzles more like the ones we saw in Nazjatar - like the one where you untangle the lines.

Also, no need to apologize - pocopoc is adorable :heart:

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