I know we have an AP farm catch up which is appreciated.
But are we going to be seeing a catchup mechanic for the Essences? at the moment its a complete joke to have multiple characters…
at this point in the game, can you either like make the essences account bound unlocks, or the materials needed for them, account bound?
so you can do the Mythic Plus 10 on multiple characters and move the Focused Life Anima to the alt we are gearing up, so we can catch them up faster, otherwise whats the point in it? you get your rank 3 of that essence and then each week you get more from the weekly reward chest but cant use it for anything???
same as the raid ones… i have 120s of most classes but this patch has literally just made me bench most of them until the new expansion at this rate =/
I suppose (hope) we will get something come 8.2.5.
On the other hand, the reps are incredibly anti-alt compared to Legion and nothing has been done yet (other than the two Champions of Azeroth quests that boost your HoA ilvl being instantly accressible regardless of the rep.)
Legion was just fine - hit exalted with a faction, get BoA tokens you can mail however you please.
Problem with the essences is that some are fairly easy to get (like rank 2 focusing iris, just time a +7) and some are actual grind (honor one).
would not matter if essences where account bound or not realy, or atleast rank 1 should be, rest maby not, becuse there has to be atleast some sort of block I think.
While I don’t know what a good system would be I must say that the essences are essentially what keeps me from playing alts. If playtime by any means is a measurement I must say my playtime in BfA went down alot.
I even prefered the legion legendarys over this for some reason (especially the system in the final patch was pretty solid imho).
Personally I would prefer some kind of catchup for alts, as of now I don’t see myself work even towards a single essence on any other char than my main.
(Ofc I know that alt play in Legion was motivating for many other reasons like Class campaings and so on ;))
I think, we altoholics, must wait for 8.3 or expansion prepatch for this to happens :(( BFA is the most alt unfriendly expansion. I don’t know why they can’t use good and old system from MOP for reputation. Sure, they don’t want to make reputations account wide, but at least they can increase rep gain by 200% on all characters after we hit exalted with some faction on main character (like it was in MOP except it was available from revered)
same…cant even be bothered to get essences on my main, its gonna be gone in x amount of time anyways. been playing so little in bfa right now im turning into an altoholic. once i ding 120 i start a new toon right away. guess im subconsciously trying to avoid bfa content.
i dont see how off the top of my head how any essence could have a simple “catchup” mechanic cause the requirements are rep, honor, quests, or items. no clear way to make any of those catch up without destroying the system.
the best thing to do, and should always have been the case, is to make them account wide. we’ve already done the content (got to level 3-4 essences on our main). why should we be forced to do it again for EVERY SINGLE alt we want to be able to carry its own weight.
I think one of the best suggestions I’ve seen is that your alts could have the essence stage behind your main. So if your’e rank 3 on main for x you’d get it at rank 2 on your alts.
I am not entirely sure that Blizzard will do anything to make it easier for alts. The system is too labour intensive to do on alts. So mine are relegated to just being weak and I’ll see what the future brings.
For me the biggest problem with essences on alts is the sheer amount of repetition of what is essentially obnoxious braindead content you have to do to realize them. Once was bad enough on my ‘main’ but I can’t do it a second time around.
I think these systems would be much better if there were secondary paths through which you could earn them i.e by actually beating difficult content in game example: Rank 3 x essence achieved by completing m+ 15 in 3 separate dungeons. Something like that is far preferable for me, I know others mileage will vary.
The problem is that this would make the rank 4 essences pretty damn useful for anyone playing alts, while they were designed to be purely cosmetic.
Blizz could also make the Essence items account bound once you fullfilled certain requirements or farmed certain things. Like mini questschains that only ask you to gather items to recreate the essences on your main but then account bound. Storywise this could be “supporting the Horde/Alliance”, since we all have necklaces in the lore aswell.
Also this would throw up another problem: For example Mages can only buy DPS essences while for example Paladins can buy all three types. This would mean non hybrid main chars would be kinda screwed, this would have to be addressed aswell.
But as mentioned before, there doesn’t seem to be an obvious or simple solution.
They may have to put some limitation in place so that it doesn’t work beyond rank 2 for example. It would still be an improvement on the current system.
I don’t think discounting rank 4 as a qualifier would be terrible.
Essences are essentially extra abilities required now to do substantial DPS in PVE or PVE content… In the past you used to be limited only by gear… now as we progress further - Blizzard you are adding more limitations to players by having multiple more methods in obtaining the tools we need to perform. Why not just leave Gear to be that only limitation instead of Neck… Essence… Gear… Way too many things to balance. Some of us enjoy the alt switch but not to repeat the same process again from the start.
On top of everything else BfA is the least alt friendly expansion I have played, at least up to now.
I do believe there’s going to be some sort of catching up system, I only hope it will be a functional and not an annoying one.
I don’t think there should be any catchup on essences at all. However I do think there could be a discussion on the need to do the small storyline quests you get at 54, 60 etc. Once for them seems enough.
Imagine someone who used to play all healing classes, since they love healers. Now they’d have to grind the sh** out of BfA, both new factions exalted, the follower in Naz on max level, grinding all that material in Mechagon… fun? I doubt it, unless someone has no life.
Then no catchup? I have been very patient with BfA, rly love the expansion myself, but I do get joy out of playing alts, they took that away like this…I wanted to work on a healer alt, but…rly don’t feel like doing that same grind again…which means, at one point my sub will not be renewed.
right now im turning into an altoholic. once i ding 120 i start a new toon right away. guess im subconsciously trying to avoid bfa content. 