You are trolling if you are not using essences and actions in Delubrum

[SturmChurro]

On an individual basis SE made farming essences less efficient than running content without them. Any player with half a brain who realizes this isn't going to bother farming essences for DF.

This is SE's incompetent design, so yea blame them. People who spent time farming essences specifically for DF DR just kind of screwed themselves over by not doing the math, or not understanding it, and I guess they're a little bitter about it.

I wouldn't call running content without essences 'efficient', I'd say it's more of how people choose to spend their time. Wasting eachother's time in DR, farming for 5-10 minutes, or doing Bozja content in general. I personally put in the time on and off playing in Bozja and got me a permanent 10 valor (damage) buff, and you can still do a lot of damage on tanks/healers. Helps that I am also using lost actions during burst. Actually, the last DR run I had was about 24-26 minutes long due to a lot players (not the DPS in my party) using essences. That's over half an hour saved, because people chose to use essences and/or lost actions! If players embody a mindset like "nobody else is going to use them, I won't either", they will just make that a reality.

Also, I actually never personally farmed fragments prior to a couple days ago, ironically. I only did that out of morbid curiosity to see just how many fragments I could get. I have martialists and aetherweavers for days (over a dozen runs worth now) for a few minutes of killing plants, and earlier I solo farmed some worms and got awakening fragments, and some skirmishers - though that farm run was short lived as Castrum popped, so instead I got some pure essences from that. By the way, our tank 'DPS' party burned top so fast, bottom was begging us to "stop dps".

The thing is, they assumed whole playerbase is like those we see in japanese community: team based efforts. But because the game houses more than just japanese community, this of course falls apart when it come across to the more individualistic community: NA server (can’t speak for EU cause I have no idea)

Yeah, I've been noticing that. many among the western playerbase seems to choose to be a burden on others. It's why we can't have nice things. It's a respect thing really, I think.