Account-wide rank 3 Essences are happening!

[Queen of Hamsters]

https://www.wowhead.com/news=311625/...-wide-essences

Rejoice! They heard the feedback and actually made it happen in good time.

Edit: Haha, what a shocker. Mostly negativity from the usual suspects.
Oh well, don't utilize the update then. For those of us still wanting to play, this is pretty sweet.

Alternate take: try appreciating the fact that they listen to us.

Why do that when they can just let their mind-authorities tell them what REALLY went down...?
Seriously. If they don't listen, it's bad. If they do listen, it's bad anyway and they didn't really listen to feedback so "don't accept teh mediocrity!!"...

Utterly hopeless. At least they're happy on other forums.

From official channel: "Building on a great deal of feedback and discussion, we’re working on an update to the game."

[Woods7]

When are they going to learn that this kind of thing needs to be implemented as soon as the feature launches?

First Legiondaries and now this. These systems leave a bitter taste when they could have been loved from start to finish.

[Valysar]

Now we just need to know how many Echoes of Ny’alotha we'll need to farm to buy one essence...

[Kehego]

Hopefully it costs like 3-4 weeks of currency

[Mirishka]

When are they going to learn that this kind of thing needs to be implemented as soon as the feature launches?

First Legiondaries and now this. These systems leave a bitter taste when they could have been loved from start to finish.

Alternate take: try appreciating the fact that they listen to us.

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https://www.wowhead.com/news=311625/...-wide-essences

Rejoice! They heard the feedback and actually made it happen in good time.

I'm surprised, this seemed like one of the things they were sticking to their guns on. Good on them.

[Darknessvamp]

Unfortunately it's not that straight forward. They've just added a grind for a new currency which is required to purchase each of the individual essences on an individual Alt which means it's more like Account Wide Vendor access. Granted we don't know cost or drop rate yet but it's amazing how much Blizzard doesn't want to concede to people's requests for Account Wide Essences and stubbornly trying to make it their "win" by still forcing a grind.

[Kehego]

Unfortunately it's not that straight forward. They've just added a grind for a new currency which is required to purchase each of the individual essences on an individual Alt which means it's more like Account Wide Vendor access. Granted we don't know cost or drop rate yet but it's amazing how much Blizzard doesn't want to concede to people's requests for Account Wide Essences and stubbornly trying to make it their "win" by still forcing a grind.

you're gonna have to play your alt actively to get the currency
which is no different than actually getting the rep in the first place
love it.

[Rogue Karl]

This should be good news but blizzard has let me down so many times before... will wait till its live but a flicker of hope is ignited.

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you're gonna have to play your alt actively to get the currency
which is no different than actually getting the rep in the first place
love it.

Beats getting strife the other way.

[Woods7]

Alternate take: try appreciating the fact that they listen to us.

Like when they listened to the mountains of feedback given to them during alphas and betas about how garbage their systems were going to turn out.

They don't listen. They placate.

[Kehego]

This should be good news but blizzard has let me down so many times before... will wait till its live but a flicker of hope is ignited.

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Beats getting strife the other way.

kinda, sorta, but generally? not really.

You only had to pvp 1 week and just conquest cap through world content to get it. Got r3 c&s and r3 ripple at the same time.

[crakerjack]

I haven't played since early february and this is the exact type of thing that'll make me want to play again. What sucks is an I'm altaholic and it was unappealing to play alts knowing my dps is gimped due to lack of essences.

[Denso]

They aren't listening. They are offering a shitty fix which in reality is just an alternate grinding path. Stop accepting this mediocrity.

But to be fair, even a full on free of charge account shared essence system wouldn't bring me back at this point, it's about a year too late to implement that.

They have to make sure to improve everything for Shadowlands at this point. BFA's appeal is gone, well and over a long time ago. Last chance.

[Kehego]

Like when they listened to the mountains of feedback given to them during alphas and betas about how garbage their systems were going to turn out.

They don't listen. They placate.

not everything you think is good is actually good

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I haven't played since early february and this is the exact type of thing that'll make me want to play again. What sucks is an I'm altaholic and it was unappealing to play alts knowing my dps is gimped due to lack of essences.

you'll still have to play your alts lol
you have to do current content to get the currency

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They aren't listening. They are offering a shitty fix which in reality is just an alternate grinding path. Stop accepting this mediocrity.

But to be fair, even a full on free of charge account shared essence system wouldn't bring me back at this point, it's about a year too late to implement that.

They have to make sure to improve everything for Shadowlands at this point. BFA's appeal is gone, well and over a long time ago. Last chance.

play the game if you want nice things

[Sharby]

I hope every clown that swore up and down that 'you need to put in the work on your alts!!' takes their L with grace.

[Rogue Karl]

kinda, sorta, but generally? not really.

You only had to pvp 1 week and just conquest cap through world content to get it. Got r3 c&s and r3 ripple at the same time.

To get rank three takes 3 weeks min if you are above I think 2100 rating... 4 if not.

[Darkeon]

not everything you think is good is actually good

Apparently it is good, as it's getting implemented.

Let us not pretend it's because they listen, as opposed to it being because that now, after several time of the feature being active and consumed by a good portion of the playerbase, it's time to stretch it out a bit further by squeezing those who were waiting to focus on alts.

We are truly blessed for having a benevolent company like Blizzard looking after us.

[Asrialol]

When are they going to learn that this kind of thing needs to be implemented as soon as the feature launches?

First Legiondaries and now this. These systems leave a bitter taste when they could have been loved from start to finish.

Learn? You stated your own opinion here - are you somehow trying to argue that what you wrote is "correct", and not merely your opinion - thus Blizzard has to "learn" from that?

Interesting. Because it's just your opinion, after all. And I disagree with it.

[Relapses]

Ah yes, not even an hour after the announcement and the waves of revisionism have already begun.

"GREAT CHNG BLIZZ BUT Y U NO DO IT ALRDY HUH Y U NVR LISTEN HUHHHHHH?!???!!??/"

This community fucking sucks. It's an improvement. Please. Just leave it at that.

[Lucifer Morningstar]

please please please please don't make me farm a whole week for 1 essence
pleeeeeease

[Kehego]

Apparently it is good, as it's getting implemented.

Let us not pretend it's because they listen, as opposed to it being because that now, after several time of the feature being active and consumed by a good portion of the playerbase, it's time to stretch it out a bit further by squeezing those who were waiting to focus on alts.

We are truly blessed for having a benevolent company like Blizzard looking after us.

No, what they do and I'm 100% sure you haven't noticed it because you're a forum complainer, is that they bottleneck.
At the start of a patch, rerolling is harder, and it is intentional.
They *always* relax requirements and nerf content as a patch goes on for a period of time. Granted I was hoping they stuck to their guns, making you have to do content to get currency rather than have everything automatically attainable is a compromise I'll accept.