wow Eternal Palace Off-Spec Rank 3 Essences Not Bundled Together Under the New System

[Stan 5,240]

Rank 3 Essences of different specializations from the Eternal Palace are not bundled together. They must be unlocked separately, meaning the Tank / DPS Essence won't be purchasable from MOTHER if you only earned the Healer variant and vice versa.

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This applies to the following Essences:

• Tempered Azerite Formation
• Resonating Elemental Heart
• Grid of Bursting Vitality

Conversely, Mechagon and Nazjatar Essences are bundled together, so if you unlock just the one for your spec, you will be able to buy the off-spec Essences from MOTHER.

The Echoes of Ny'alotha system came with a few issues so far, and you can find an overview here and a list of all Essence item names purchasable from MOTHER in this post.

[SidonisAntares 290]

6 hours ago, Stan said:

 

Rank 3 Essences of different specializations from the Eternal Palace are not bundled together. They must be unlocked separately, meaning the Tank / DPS Essence won't be purchasable from MOTHER if you only earned the Healer variant and vice versa.

 

Conversely, Mechagon and Nazjatar Essences are bundled together, so if you unlock just the one for your spec, you will be able to buy the off-spec Essences from MOTHER.

The Echoes of Ny'alotha system came with a few issues so far, and you can find an overview here and a list of all Essence item names purchasable from MOTHER in this post.

Eternal Palace Essences were formed by a loot drop from wing bosses, just like the singular Void Droplet essence is in Nyalotha.

Mechagon was unlocked via reputation levels and purchased through S.P.A.R.E parts boxes and oscillators.

Nazjatar was unlocked via reputation levels and accumulating follower XP through dailies.

Apples and oranges.

-Edit

Has anyone confirmed that they can actually buy for example, the tanking essence from Mechagon through MOTHER if their primary character did not have the tanking role available? i.e. Rogue main and DH alt.

Edited March 18, 2020 by SidonisAntares

[Stan 5,240]

2 hours ago, SidonisAntares said:

Eternal Palace Essences were formed by a loot drop from wing bosses, just like the singular Void Droplet essence is in Nyalotha.

Mechagon was unlocked via reputation levels and purchased through S.P.A.R.E parts boxes and oscillators.

Nazjatar was unlocked via reputation levels and accumulating follower XP through dailies.

Apples and oranges.

-Edit

Has anyone confirmed that they can actually buy for example, the tanking essence from Mechagon through MOTHER if their primary character did not have the tanking role available? i.e. Rogue main and DH alt.

While that may be true, the system has so many exceptions that we thought it would be best to mention this.

[PatrickHenry 293]

22 hours ago, Stan said:

While that may be true, the system has so many exceptions that we thought it would be best to mention this.

Good idea, and thanks for that!

I guess in the end either way would make sense, to me anyway.  I just wish it was consistently one way or the other for ease of remembrance.  

[SidonisAntares 290]

On 3/18/2020 at 2:55 PM, Stan said:

While that may be true, the system has so many exceptions that we thought it would be best to mention this.

Okay so lets look at why they did this, instead of just saying its different. Let's say it didn't matter, you made one EP essence you can get any of them on an alt.

Let's say your primary character is a druid like mine, but you only formed the Tank and DPS essences because you only do Bear/Cat, or you stopped running EP when Nyalotha came out, or you just plain forgot. For whatever reason, you never formed the Healing essence.

You have shaman alt that you heal on, and you buy the Healing essence. You then log back in on your druid, and because your shaman has a rank 3 essence that you don't you can now buy it from MOTHER too, without either character having ever collected the necessary reliquary pieces to form ranks 1-3 of the Healing essence.

That's why its not bundled for EP. If forming the reliquary pieces had instead been turned into a vendor that unlocked buying ranks 1-3 of any of the 3 essences for say, manapearls instead, then yes it would make sense to have all 3 available regardless.

Edited March 20, 2020 by SidonisAntares

[Mis 5]

My main is a BM Hunter.. my alt is a Prot pally. I can confirm that you CAN NOT get tank essances from Mother after unlocking the dps equivalent essance on a dps toon. RIP having a tank alt, guess I'm limited to only dps alts.