Restrictions Removed from Purchasing Role-Specific Azerite Essences with Echoes of Ny'alotha

Live Posted 2020/03/20 at 2:28 PM by Squishei

Blizzard

We’ve just made a significant update to the new Echoes of Ny’alotha system, with the goal of making Essences much more available to your characters whose specializations put them in different roles (tanking, healing, damage).

With this change, we’ve lifted the restrictions on acquiring role-specific Azerite Essences from MOTHER. Now, the various ways that you obtain Rank 3 tanking, healing, or damage-specific Essences are now grouped together. If you’ve earned any of the three Essences in these groups, all three of the Essences will be unlocked for purchase from MOTHER with Echoes of Ny’alotha:

Spark of Inspiration, Unwavering Ward, Strength of the Warden (obtained from Horrific Visions)
Touch of the Everlasting, Spirit of Preservation, Breath of the Dying (obtained from reputation with Rajani)
Blood of the Enemy, Artifice of Time, Sphere of Suppression (obtained from Battlegrounds)
Condensed Life Force, Vitality Conduit, Azeroth’s Undying Gift (obtained from raiding in The Eternal Palace)
Essence of the Focusing Iris, Life-Binder’s Invocation, Anima of Life and Death (obtained from Mythic Keystone dungeons)

As a reminder, this was already the case with Purification Protocol, Nullifcation Dynamo, and Well of Existence (the Rustbolt Resistance Essences) as well as The Ever-Rising Tide, Aegis of the Deep, and The Unbound Force (the Nazjatar Essences).

A side-effect of this change is that even a single character now has a way to obtain these off-role Essences, and can either use Echoes to purchase them from MOTHER or use the original means of acquisition. That means that your Priest who raided Azshara in Shadow-spec and got Condensed Life-Force up to Rank 3 is now able to obtain Vitality Conduit from MOTHER for a Holy-spec healing boost.

Thank you for all of your feedback on this!

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Comment by calmboarHow...how can I be mad about this?Comment by Elyciaeshadowlands HAS to be terrible. No way blizz would just freely make good changesComment by Alwayslastgood.Comment by SkyreiExcellent change. Thank you.Comment by EddafredNow all you need to do is make the Echoes account wide.Comment by KotasoNow all you need to do is make the Echoes account wide.Comment by darkelemental1How...how can I be mad about this?Comment by abris1995Now all you need to do is make the Echoes account wide.Comment by MaizouAs I said on the forums, one more change and I'd be happy:

Make the Eternal Palace grind shorter. Right now it's 6 months of LFR only, which probably 99% of people are going to be stuck in due to the lack of EP raids happening that accept people under heroic nyalotha gear.

Make it obtainable in a month/2 with LFR.Comment by NulgarCaving too much, I think. People could've purchased the DPS Essence and then do the usually minimal farming for the "offspec" Essence. It would then of course be available to other alts as well.Comment by addie7601Caving too much, I think. People could've purchased the DPS Essence and then do the usually minimal farming for the "offspec" Essence. It would then of course be available to other alts as well.Comment by WarstainGuess the pandemic has some benefits after all!Comment by TraitorbaneHoly heck, they are actually listening! I think this is the first time in a long while where the community has asked something with a unified voice and they delivered. Fingers crossed this is a trend going forward!Comment by Gogeta1990First the free xp buff, now more positive changes to alt essences.

With BFA being dead and buried already, you'd think they'd just let it rot and fester so shadowlands looks even better by comparison.Comment by KadenzzaSweet. Just picked up Azeroth's Undying Gift for the character I'm now tanking for my guild on. I was on my rogue main during TEP and only had access to the Condensed Life-Force due to playing a pure when that essence was current. Very good change.Comment by fathom81Caving too much, I think. People could've purchased the DPS Essence and then do the usually minimal farming for the "offspec" Essence. It would then of course be available to other alts as well.Comment by NulgarCaving too much, I think. People could've purchased the DPS Essence and then do the usually minimal farming for the "offspec" Essence. It would then of course be available to other alts as well.Comment by Darkfire8008Good deal Blizzard. That is how you make smart decisions and giving the game it's alt friendliness back.Comment by wallrochaDoes this mean that my mage with revered on Rajani will unlock the healing essence for my priest?Comment by Hanayeyou guys....made more something that my alts tank/heal happier. I have more time to do other things than grinding. thank you...

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