Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
This assumes they have a box full of potions...

And is why I am glad you can't get vote dismissed. I don't have any essences I can use, and am only running this content to get the pottery shards I need for my relic. I have zero interest in farming them on the Southern Front. Yet in a couple runs, I had other players yelling at me for not having one on. This is the kind of situation wherein the person who is playing fine (I was doing all the mechanics and for many fights was one of the only players still standing at the end from my party) but I was the problem for not having an essence on... and so would have had a vote dismiss initiated. This is a problem with the content and with the players that would make the potential to vote dismiss abused, and with not being able to report someone who inititates this kind of vote dismissal, this would become a problem Square likely wants to avoid.
I'm amenable to concerns about not being able to use items you don't have as that's simply... normal, though I would like to say that farming them isn't that bad, at least the basic ones. Assuming your datacenter has any kind of capability to make an awakening fragment farming party, they come in pretty quick, were you so inclined. I understand actually getting a party for this in-game can be a struggle and not everyone wants to organize via discord (nevermind the rate at which you can get blue/green memories...)

That said I think it's worth noting that DR drops its own fragments, and if you aren't planning to use those in DR savage, well... they're not going to do anything anywhere else, so if nothing else you could start throwing some of those in your holster.