Do you guys consider getting rank 3 essences a character achievement like clearing a raid on high difficulty or reaching a high PVP rating?
They are not the same thing. I didn’t achiev anything if I get nice epic gear that just sits on my character if i’m not DOING anything with it…
The “freebies” ain’t half bad either.
Crucible just for stepping into Naj.
Worldvein for running an island/table mission.
Breath for getting your cloak.
Meme beam for timing a low dungeon.
Etc.
Takes a few weeks to max them.
Aaaaand that’s most peoples problems. Maxing out essences for full potential.
No. A rank 3 neck is the most powerful piece of gear in the game. It’s part of power progression. You want it? Go get it.
I miss the days of being able to help friends with my multiple similarly geared characters just from raiding.
How is people ignoring essences until they are geared relevant here?
See my boots? Those are from doing completing a Nzoth Assault in the Vale. They are one of my strongest items on my toon.
I didn’t get it through any epic event (raid or the like).
Yes! This is exactly what it feels like to drag yet another character through the same boring content! Exactly this!
If the content is boring, why are you even playing the game at all?
I’m not, got AOTC game time ends this weekend, wont be renewing until Shadowlands.
We want to play our alts in the fun content. But there’s a big wall of boring content ahead of us that we need to get through for weeks. It’s demoralizing.
The essence and AP grinds are exactly what compels me to wait for shadowlands in regarding my alts. Edit: And the level squish.
I can’t do that though, the guild achievement requires 59 characters at max level and I don’t know what the level squish is going to do to that… so I have to grind them up right now.
With regards to why fix something I already did…by that same logic, we shouldn’t cure cancer because someone beat it once. Tough it up and fight harder brah
Really, really dumb analogy. My cancer wasn’t cured, I was filled with poisons until it was choked out.
feels like essences grind to me. but seriously hope you are well now.
Stahp. Essences are a brand new system layered on top of what already existed. They can be changed or removed without having to degenerate into ridiculousness.
I believe the core problem is what kind of “effort” it is.
I like the essence I get from doing M+ itself - that makes sense, you time a 7 and get the reward, you earned it doing the content appropriate to earn it. Same for the mechagon dungeon essences…
Having to rep grind solo dumb quests every day in Mechagon to get a reputation essence useful NOT in that content, useful MOSTLY in raid and M+. That’s the disconnect - it’s dumb to lock stuff you need for challenging content behind brain-dead dumb content.
Easy to fix. Make the null barrier essence require timing 10 dungeons at M2 for rank 1, 10 at M7 for rank 2, 10 at m10 for rank 3… that kind of thing.
Ok fine
My “curable by medicine disease” shouldnt be cured people got better before and/or without the medicine.
Point being is we dont use such stupid logic in life and shouldn’t here. Essences are a horrible system that goes against the gearing and progression system. I wouldnt care if they were all like the mythic+ ones that auto drop from a 4, 7, and 10
No? Does the essence not empower your character by adding more dps, mitigation, healing, etc? Does improving them not improve your performance?