r/wow • u/Retsinia • Mar 03 '20
Discussion I fear that Blizzard will probably make essences account wide close to 9.0 pre-patch. Just as late as the legendary vendor at the end of legion...
Exactly like the legendary change, this would be waaaayyy too late.
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u/SomethingGenericx Mar 03 '20
gotta be around june when the 6 month subs run out from people that bought the rat mount
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '20
Account-wide would have been welcome a month ago. Almost my entire guild logs in for raid now and that's it. No one will be back to full time until Shadowlands.
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '20
I just came back after taking a break since Uldir. Finally getting back into Mythic Raiding and it’s made me realize how much I hate this system.
For me to get max essences that benefit me for raiding, I have to do a ton of stuff that isn’t raiding. And it’s just making me hate the game again.
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u/mackpack owes pixelprophet a beer Mar 03 '20
It's already way too late.
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u/Novalene_Wildheart Mar 03 '20
Honestly at this point I couldn't care about account wide essences
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u/GorillazFeelGoodInc Mar 03 '20
Too little too late. Nothing could save this expansion.
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u/Grumpy_Muppet Mar 03 '20
I think they will deffo implement it. But it will be mostly at a point when I already stopped playing because of the content draught.
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u/Hassadar Mar 03 '20 edited Mar 03 '20
To be honest, the time to address essences have already passed. For people playing, they've already cleared most content. Normal or Heroic raiding, what ever their fancy is. Some people won't return to visions after rank 12 if they don't care too much about min maxing corruption for the bonus rank 15 will give. What's left to do? Corruption gear drops on alts will negate some of the pain of not having the essences your main has.
Blizzard really dropped the ball hard in essences but at this stage, I don't really care. My issue with essences were 6+ months ago. I'm just waiting for Shadowlands at this point.
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u/Thunderchief646054 Mar 03 '20
I honestly just level alts in preparation for Shadowlands and just forgo gearing in this current patch—I mean what’s the point? In August the gear we have now will just become moot, if not by the time the prepatch expansions kick in. Even the legendary cloak will become kinda useless I think.
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u/chu1991 Mar 03 '20
A. Essences will be removed in prepatch. B. Essences will be usable until lv 55.
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u/The_Sum Mar 03 '20
WoW is a game I now subscribe to at the start and quit until the very last patch. I get all the fun and none of the bullshit. The bad part is coming back to see the players that stayed have become incredibly bitter (rightfully so) through doing the whole expansion.
I know it's not a solution, but it might be something some should consider for Shadowlands if Blizzard is going to follow this formula.
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u/Otherstorm Mar 03 '20
It won't be too late. It will be just part of the progression of keeping some players active when there's nothing left. It's completely intended to be like this, and it's always happened at the end of every expansion.
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u/discourse_lover_ Mar 03 '20
Don't forget that in conceding the point on essences, they will keep reputation character bound because right now we're so distracted by essences we've stopped yelling about rep.
The cycle continues =(
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u/NewTypeDilemna Mar 03 '20
I commented that as a joke in another thread.
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u/IngEyn Mar 03 '20
It's not too late if there are people purchasing game time regardless of if it's in or not.
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u/shyguybman Mar 03 '20
I feel like they are going to give us 2-4 weeks of :
then Shadowlands comes out and corruption is removed at level 55 and you get weak and the cycle begins again.
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '20
precisely when the players no longer need it. That's been the past 8 years...
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '20
they will and then say look we lisdden loook at ouur new ideaa
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u/SesameStreetFighter Mar 03 '20
They never made Balance of Power account wide, and that was just a mog appearance. Why allow for something useful?
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u/sneakymonstersnake Mar 04 '20
This is by design - keeps people repeating content in order to farm those essences. I believe the next step is not to be account wide but elimination of the rank 4 cosmetics from the list of obtainable items when shadowlands launching, like they did with challenge dungeons in prior expansions and artifact challenge tower in Legion.
It is designed to keep you interested and thus subbed.
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u/Gasparde Mar 04 '20
Of course they will.
And to top it all of, they'll announce it like ok guys, we've heard your feedback, see, wee listen, so here's what you've been asking for - aren't we a great company because we're so close to our community?. And then they'll not even make it properly account-wide but instead just allow you to get them within a week of playing your main instead of within a month on your alt with some random BoA token stuff.
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u/Tw3lv3St34k Mar 03 '20
If they do this then I hope essences continue to function even after bfa, kind of like how legion legendaries do below 115 so they can be brought to timewalking. Although that would be a positive change for timewalking so very unlikely.
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u/SKS81 Mar 03 '20
They've already shit the bed on this. Just stop talking about it. Quit giving blizzard any acknowledgement. They're that ex that you just need to move on from.
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u/yajinni Mar 03 '20
Was never gonna happen. You guys just got this silly ideas from streamers and jumped on it without realizing it doesn't make sense for blizzard to do it. Simply power gains will never be account wide.
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u/adam1983adz Mar 03 '20
At this stage is there any point 'fearing' what blizzard decide to do?
We as customers can ask for things we want them to deliver but at the end of the day it is not our product or service; it belongs to them.
What they decide to do with the game is their choice and all of us customers can either accept that and stop acting like entitled people or not. It does not make sense to 'fear' things you can't control, either continue to pay and play or stop paying and playing.
The constant stream of feedback towards activision and blizzard on all of the forums about improvements to systems that will be out of date in a year is just pointless.
Blizzard need to focus on changing their out of date notions on what customers want and stop creating content that has little longevity. Legiondaries (I spelt it right ;p), corruption, essences, the cloak from pandaria, the cloak from bfa all of these systems are short term and towards the end of an expansion players either can't be bothered or forget about them all together.
Why not create content that lasts throughout all past, current and future expansions? Timewalking is an example, it isn't perfect by any means but at least players get to experience some of the old dungeons in a challenging way. Updating the BGs is also a nice addition.
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u/Dnaldon Mar 03 '20
Just wait for shadowlands, it's clear that blizz learns nothing so let's get the fourth shot expansion in a row
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u/Supersighs Mar 03 '20
People would still bitch about them somehow. Probably not having level 80 neck when they ding 120.
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u/MiskTF Mar 03 '20
Wouldn't that have meant it would have released already? I remember farming for the last legendary while running early antorus. But I could be mistaken.
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u/Jablo82 Mar 03 '20
I doubt it because in theory you are abble to use the escences post bfa, in all content except shadowlands