Did Blizzard finally come to their senses on essences? Can we now enjoy playing ALT’s for the rest of BFA? According to this statement written by Thyvene a Community Manager at Blizzard in a blue post essences will now be account-wide starting Tuesday, March 17th.
“Building on a great deal of feedback and discussion, we’re working on an update to the game. With the next regularly-scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, players who have earned a given Rank 3 Essence on one character will be able to directly obtain that Essence from MOTHER on any subsequent characters.
When playing an alt character that is missing Essences that have already been earned on a different character, most ordinary Visions of N’Zoth activities, such as Horrific Visions, Assaults, raid bosses, Mythic Keystone Dungeons, or BFA Season 4 PvP, will award a new soulbound currency – Echoes of Ny’alotha. These Echoes can be brought to MOTHER in the Heart Chamber and exchanged directly for eligible Rank 3 Essences. While ordinarily each specific Essence must be learned in order to unlock it for other characters via MOTHER, all Essences associated with Nazjatar and Mechagon reputations will be available if any other different character has earned any of the Essences available from that reputation.
Our goal with this update is to preserve the efforts that players put into unlocking a given Essence through its associated activity the first time while offering subsequent characters far more flexibility in pursuing that goal. We’ll have additional details in a forthcoming hotfixes update that goes out around the same time as maintenance, but we wanted to let the community know ASAP that this change is in the works.
As always, thank you for all your feedback on this topic!”
You will still need to grind your Heart of Azeroth level up but Blizzard has already installed a weekly catch up mechanic for that. Players can easily level up their Heart of Azeroth to 80 which in turn gives you access to all 3 essences in a week or less. Finally remains the legendary cloak Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve, Blizzard has already installed catch up mechanics for this which tops off at level 15 then raising your corruption resistance every week after.
Depending on your playtime I would say it’s possible to fully catch up an alt in 2 – 4 weeks. Way to go, Blizzard, you might just have salvaged what time we have left in BFA.
