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Starting to wonder if you were even talking about my post in the first place
Rank 4 essences should absolutely be account-wide, considering that they offer no power increases and require one hell of an effort to get.
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I said me and me saying about 12 alts i never did thank you .
You are arrogant to assume people want 12 alts far from it.
They are server/realm based from what I’ve heard. So account wide per server.
For me it’s a combination that makes it horrible.
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Essences on it’s own? No problem - get it in time anyways.
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AP? Ditto.
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Azerite Pieces? Ditto
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Cloak? Ditto
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Corruption? Ditto, with a bit of luck.
During 8.2 I’ve leveled the necks up of 7 chars, got 445 azerite pieces with decent to good traits on all of them (some even 2 or 3 sets) and got the most important 3 essences on r3 (or r2).
But now, we have to do all of that again AND keep the cloaks up to date, hope for corruption and two new reps to fix.
It is not about the Account Wide essences, it is just too much at one time if you just want to log in during an evening and just do something you like without feeling that you skip on something that will bite in your behind sooner or later.
Long story short; I now focus on 1 char and 1 char only. But it is NOT solely due to the essences.
That makes little sense. The title is account-wide.
Indeed but unless it’s been fixed since, players found that it was only working per realm 
Not good enough. Needs to be full account. Again, it doesn’t offer any power and is hard to get.
At this point I don’t even care. The expansion is over as far as I’m concerned which is gonna come back and bite me once they don’t remove the essence achievements in SL and I’m still missing the PvP island expedition to get my last one.
Yes because people playing less is good from business POV… It is good for players, but not so good for Blizzard.
I really think even early Legion was more alt friendly then this. At least we could go 1 week behind with artifact knowledge
Yet it also drives people away which is bad business sense.
I think essences should just be dirt cheap, and AP should be nerfed to the ground atm. If I wanna reroll, just all that grind (AP, rep) and then I still need RNG from corruption… I just exit the game when I think about it.
So, instead of gearing up an alt… You’re gearing up an alt in another version of the game where you can’t even really do anything with that alt? 
Having said that; essences are a bad attempt at a fix for a bad system that failed.
Looking at it objectively, the problem in legion and bfa was not that different, but legion was just so much more enjoyable that i was willing to put up with that just because it was so much better.
And yes, essences should be boa. Just like artifact power in legion should have been either boa or shared between all specs, we should have got the legendary catchup mechanic from the start also.
And legion would have been a 9/10, or maybe even close to a 10.
It just sucks that game companies just need to put in a grind thinking it will retain players, but in reality it turns them off.
But seen the trend with blizzard at the moment it seems like legion was a bit of an outlier.
I agree that these types of systems should be BtA, I don’t see any reason why it couldn’t be, besides the “more time in game = more money for Actiblizz.”
I’m just waiting and hoping for a time, we could get reputations to BtA as well, or at least close to how Pandaland was, where once you got to revered, you could buy a rep boost for your account.
i dont even have a single essence ;d
God awful for alts. Especially the time gated ones…
Essences being per-character has been a total backfire from my perspective. Instead of spending time on my main, then some time on alts, I instead spend time on my main and log off. I used to be a 7-8 alt player, now I have 1 main, and 1 half-baked alt.
Why?
Because when I raise an alt to 120, I want to be able to make use of the good relations I have cultivated with my guild and community and ask them to lend me a hand getting it up to speed. Most of them are happy to boost a friend’s scrubby alt through M+, and I am happy to do the same for theirs - but it isn’t enough. Gear drops are now only a part of the equation of character progress, with the rest of the equation being locked behind (yes) time-gated content.
I do not have any desire to do the rep grinds in Nazjatar or Mechagon again. I never wanted to do the PvP grind on any character, but bit the bullet because it happens to be my PvE BiS essence. I won’t even get chance to run Eternal Palace for essences because of how raid tiers now replace the previous. Doesn’t matter if they would be BiS for my alt, no way can I convince 9+ people to run it for several weeks to gather those aqueous whatevers.
Which means alts that are behind the curve feel like the most appalling chore since someone invented an outhouse that needed cleaning.
If Blizz want me to play more, account-wide essences would help, since my fresh 120s would suddenly be able to fill all those essence slots that are now so quickly unlocked and not feel utterly frikking terrible even after friends have kindly helped me power-gear to 445.
ONE dimension of character progression is enough. GEAR is enough. We don’t need a variety of currencies and reps that give us more dimensions of progression.
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this is pretty much the problem, you can get the gear needed, even the ap needed, heck even the cloak up, but your essences are stuck on rank 1 or 2 most of the time, meening even if you manage to get all the gear you need, you will be in dps/healing or even tanking so far behind the others it aint even fun to se.
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