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[Driavna]

The boost to damage from essences isn't insignificant, though. Even if only a couple of players in a raid are using essences...if those players stay alive, then the extra damage they're dishing out does chip away at the time it takes to complete the content in question.

Some people using them is better than none, though the majority having them in play would be the ideal situation. I've seen that a couple of times now and the bosses absolutely melted.

I suppose it's just strange to me. A lot of the people who refuse to use essences seem to absolutely loathe the content in question and see it as a chore that, for some reason, they can't bring themselves to avoid engaging with...but then they're also not willing to work with other players to make it less tiresome for all involved.

Should be an easy problem to fix: give everyone the same baseline reward and add extra stuff (or improved chances) to players that put more effort. If you do everything you can to help, getting 5 of the needed items to progress your relic and/or a 100% chace of a field note sounds fair to me.