Are essences essential?

I am really loving my resto shaman again, and decided to give him a proper go in 8.3. Though I must say, i am very worried about the essences needed to play him to at least heroic level raiding, mythic 10’s and low ranked pvp. I get that maybe I don’t need the most cutting edge of the essences, but running around with rank 1 essences will just make me feel like not playing.

My hunter has all the major essences it needs at rank 3. Something like 7 of them. This took a LONG time though. I only got R3 condenced life force a month ago… I am feeling really put off by grinding essences. I wish they weren’t a thing, and that we had something similar to legion for character progression or just leave the game how it was before - just the gear grind, with great class design.

So, do i need to do the essence grind? If so, how would I even go about ones like Vitality Conduit and Vision of perfection, and not be behind with everything else?

Vitality conduit = mechagon rep?
Do stuff there, with an emphasis on spare crate aquisition. I might have read somewhere the crates required to buy will be reduced.

Vision or its parts drops from mechagon end of run chest. Since it’s added into m+ I don’t know yet if you can just spam it in one day and farm parts for it, I assume no, but I may be wrong.

For healer you only need 1 essence and that is from Nazjatar vendor, that’s it. The rest are garbage.

How do you make use of that essence as s priest?

Its effect is like 8 seconds or something like that. You have no instants apart from bubble. So, you cast 2-3 spells with 2-3 gcds and that’s it? With only the third one being at 12% increased healing, that is if you get 3 casts off.
I may be wrong but I’ve found that essence much more practical on druid healer, where you can spam rejuvenation on everyone in the time the effect lasts.
The m+ healing essence, idk name, I’ve found that working with priest gameplay much better.

Nazjatar rep and Mechagon rep are the most used.

Also Sees of Eonar is not bad, and they are not difficult to acquire.

Remember it’s not just good for PvE, I want some decent PvP ones too. Though I think I need to curb my enthusiasm.

Basically u have to farm the ones u need all over again, they wont give us account wide essences. And u kinda need the essences to be able to keep up with everyone else.

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