This is my issues with their choice of currency for this. I can keep on earning echoes on my priest while this mage has been unable to get any. I wouldn’t have bought the essences either on my alt mage if i somehow knew they’d make it for the same currency.
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Yeah but if you’re playing a pure dps class then that would be obvious to just have dps essences… Some of the dps essences does carry over to tank/healer… I dont see the problem beyond that
Thats great, but annoying for my main who does a tonne of content but hasn’t had any echoes drop for weeks, due to having all of the essences at R3 . Will they start to drop when this goes live??
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You already got this reply, but I’ll add it anyways.
Either they have to wipe it, or retroactively reward players that have never been able to gather them with all of the Echoes they have missed out on.
It’s good to create band-aid solutions for bad systems like corruption, but not if it punishes players that have been actively playing the content prior to the currencys implementation
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Its too bad that people like me who have been playing the game like it is supposed to, farming essences and trying to better my character are being punished by this system. Just make it seperate from all other systems and just make everyone earn a new currency, dont punish players who play the game.
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this would be obvious solution
just put in new currency
we have milion of them anyway - who cares at this point.
this way echos can be for essences and new currency for corruptions puting eveyrone on equal footing
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I think it was a poor choice using the same currency. Either reset the currency for all or give it a different currency.
But I guess at the end of the day we will have a way of buying it, mains are just disadvantaged if they actually played the game fully already 
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Echoes are going to be used to buy corruptions…
I cannot/have not been able to gain echoes due to being a pure dps class with all essences (you need a MISSING rank 3 essence on another character that your character can use also to be eligible for echoes)…
i cannot buy corruption on release like others can.
Its simple
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How fair is it to reuse an existing currency which was only used by those who had not gotten all the essences for their spec or class at all? Those who never went for their off-spec to play with are now lying on a big stock of echos to buy almost instantly one of the first offers mother will have.
Me as only a DD-class with all the essences i could get and have highest accomplished am standing here with not a single echo in my hand.
Pls add a new currency for us to farm from a fair startingpoint.
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ah right i get ya but it does say, echoes will be available on all characters
This is not good for people who had all rank 3, its like titan residuum all over again, people will start hoarding echoes (those who can)
I have friends with 5k echoes right now and it will go up quick now as they will start hoarding more, its a nice change but choosing the same currency or without doing a hard reset on echoes is just way to punishing to people who got all rank 3 they should up the amount to alot more like titan residuum.
And last i hope it comes with a nerf to gushing wounds in pvp as people will be stacking them because of how broken they are for only 15 corruption, it will become the most broken pvp season
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It will be able too from now on…
but if things arent wiped clean i will be 5-10k Echoes behind everyone else. Thats between 1 and 3 corruptions. That puts me and others at a severe dis-advantage due to how the system works with excluding us.
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So 4 corruptions are available per week right?
One could be rank 1 X corruption…dont want that
Two rank 2 Y…dont want that either
etc
etc
So potentially it could take weeks upon weeks to get the right rank (presuming 3) and the right corruption to show up. Still so darn time gated. Still weeks and weeks of playing with bad corruptions while gushing could come out first week (which I dont want) and ill get annihilated in arena for weeks until I can get my versa.
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It doesn’t matter if it’s going to be available on all characters.
The problem is that players that have been actively playing the game will have NEVER been able to get Echoes before this change, meaning that the most active players will start at 0 while less active players will be able to have an incredible amount.
It is almost impossible to put into words how wrong it is to implement a system that punishes players for having played the game
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Thanks, that’s a great slap in the face of mains who could not gather any echoes yet, while my alts sit at 10k+. That’s pretty much a full lockout headstart (and it could also mean that you miss the opportunity window to buy your desired corruption and have to wait weeks until it is available again).
Either reset the currency, create a new one or tenfold the costs/gain.
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very true. My guess is that it all boils down to getting rid of the RNG…
On another note, whats happening with this buff thats replacing the rep buff? or is this buff blizzard was on about? O.o
Worst. Fix. Ever.
This is why improvising vendors and repurposing currencies mid-patch is dumb.
Good thing i have 7000 useless currencies on my alts and gz all those people with multiple specs who were able to acquire echos from the start.
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Either of those two options would work instead of making some characters that bit more disadvantaged compared to those who were lacking an essence and didn’t bother buying it.
I do hope they at least take this into consideration though i suppose it’s too late to change it by now.
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Spamming keys will be much faster
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The cycle is complete.
Legion: Introduce legendaries with ****tons of RNG dropping BS. Cave last patch and fix it.
BfA: Introduce corruptions with ****tons of RNG dropping BS. Cave last patch and fix it.
Nothing more to say. I’m glad you’re getting it right in Shadowlands from the beginning.
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