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Hello. Figure this be a wasted vent and useless but feel like the community isn't all that is cracked up to be. I feel like at least half the community wants other players to become perfect and be 150% better. I ran a DR with complete randoms and all I ever hear is get essences use essences etc. Have you ever thought maybe I don't have time to grind for fragments and hope that RNG gives me the essence I need?

Maybe tell the devs that the whole thing is stupid to rely on essence potions to buff up our DPS. Maybe they should of let our gear dictate our damage. I just feel like this game went from being fun to almost a job on how we have to strive for perfection or don't play.

I know it falls on deaf ears a few years ago as I was learning had a person use a parser to make fun of me in a raid back in SB. Of course nothing happened as always. People just turn a blind eye.

Just use essences lmao

I do until I run out

With the time it took you to post this you could've probably farmed enough healer essences for many, many runs.
Or just buy some of the MB. Doesn't even have to be an expensive one with full set of actions and everything. Using a cheap essence isn't nowhere near "almost a job", "perfection" or "150%". It only means you managed to find the MB in a big city or spend 5-10min bashing something that doesn't even try to fight back.

Don't have the time to grind essences? What about the all that extra time spent in DR/Castrum/Dalraida due to people not using essences?

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they hard sync the stats so that everyone is on the same playing field and so that no one can overpower the content on their own. so it comes down to what it always has. player skill. and since the game is all about dps, dps, and more dps, and gotta go hurry hard fast everyone demands everyone bring essences because they're obsessed with efficiency. some ppl go bonkers because it took 5 more minutes longer than it should have. if you feel you're harassed because of it, then report those people.

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Originally Posted by Velvet_Lunarfang

Hello. Figure this be a wasted vent and useless but feel like the community isn't all that is cracked up to be. I feel like at least half the community wants other players to become perfect and be 150% better. I ran a DR with complete randoms and all I ever hear is get essences use essences etc. Have you ever thought maybe I don't have time to grind for fragments and hope that RNG gives me the essence I need?

Maybe tell the devs that the whole thing is stupid to rely on essence potions to buff up our DPS. Maybe they should of let our gear dictate our damage. I just feel like this game went from being fun to almost a job on how we have to strive for perfection or don't play.

I know it falls on deaf ears a few years ago as I was learning had a person use a parser to make fun of me in a raid back in SB. Of course nothing happened as always. People just turn a blind eye.

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Using appropriate essences is the bare minimum though? Do you similarly not use lost actions because "you don't have time to grind"? Your excuse falls flat as well considering you can buy fragments in bulk across all the servers in your data center.

Whilst I would agree that asking players to be pitch-perfect in the execution of their job/class, and additionally the mechanics are completely unfeasible. However, on this particular account I do find there is little in the way of excuses to not be carrying an essence in some way shape, or form, especially seeing as the duty itself awards fragments. Which even if they are not your fragment type can still be sold, and then buy fragments more relevant to you. Whether it gives an essence or something like a dervish; that's still something that can be used to help the run.

If I am to speak honestly though; the implementation of it takes the blame, wholly. I'm really not sure what they were thinking by scaling the encounters to having damage essences. Not only that, they didn't really compensate for this by making the fragments easier to farm in Zadnor. - It's something I find wholly silly, especially with their latest approach being along the lines of not wanting people to invest too much time in the preparation.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

they hard sync the stats so that everyone is on the same playing field and so that no one can overpower the content on their own. so it comes down to what it always has. player skill. and since the game is all about dps, dps, and more dps, and gotta go hurry hard fast everyone demands everyone bring essences because they're obsessed with efficiency. some ppl go bonkers because it took 5 more minutes longer than it should have. if you feel you're harassed because of it, then report those people.

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Don't you mean 30-45 minutes longer due to people not using essences?

I'll never understand the logic of "maybe I don't have time to grind for fragments" from players who somehow have more than enough time to sit in hour long DR runs instead of 20 minutes (x15 per relic).

All the players with the "I don't have the time" mindset cost each other hours and hours of time.