LMAO, okay. I guess I don't have to bother with getting this essence. As a Boomie I wasn't looking forward to just being a buffbot, but it was different. Now it's just useless. Back to Vision of Perfection, I guess. CA / Incarn for days is still looks pretty fun, and probably better for my personal damage.
For the love of the Light please, do something for holy priest.Don't give us "Holy ward". It will be so useless. I was really excited to get instant PoM back. Please...
Why do people still act like this is something baseline? It is 100% useless essence for PvE compared to the other OP ones. And Blizz even stated it's not intended for PvE. Where did all the "Why do you force me to PvP when I only want to PvP?"-whiners go? They should be praising Blizz for this useless essence now:-)Stop whining every chance you get, people!
Sorry Ferals, back to the bench we go. I would've loved to provide a buff to the raid since it was a passive Feral has had in the past. Feral will always be an unwanted spec as long as Blizz keeps adding new melee classes to the game.
IDK why everyone is complaining. This essence was designed to give PvPers a freebie for their mandatory talent they always take. PVEers... not everything is catered to you... for once.
I think a lot of people were looking at this essence too and forgetting that this is taking up an ESSENCE SLOT. No matter what talent a given spec will be granted with this essence, it's still going to be competing with every other essence to be put into your Heart.
I guess I am the only person underwhelmed as a druid for thorns....crit benefit was far better, but I guess a bit too much. I think this essence is riddled with balance issues....
Are Holy Priests literally crying for Instant PoM back when it LITERALLY would never get picked because all it does is slightly increase the time you can spend moving around. How in god's name does that meassure up to a free raidwide or a massive heal or trolling your entire raid by sucking their health into someone(or the other PvP one that fuctions as an external).Is Holy Ward the best that we could have gotten? Not really(but the best one is utterly broken in PvE), but it has potential. IE on a shortish cooldown cheese mandatory CC mechanics. Think Antoran High Command on Mythic or anything similar, you can at least THINK of a reason to take it rather than PoM. Wouldn't be surprised if we see a Mythic boss being cheesed by people being able to continue DPSing rather than moving out of a CC AoE.I'd rather have an essence that is useful 1% of the time rather than 0%, and Instant PoM was a big fat Zero.
Why would I assume something fun would make it to the game? It's amazing how they are picking the most boring, sometimes even useless, talents for each spec.
Sigh. The bigger problem is the essence itself. It doesnt need to exist. It does what people wanted in a way nobody likes.Lots of feedback at BFAs launch said "it would make our classes actually feel complete if we could all have the PvP talents active at all times including instances, just renamed as something like "enhancements" or something along those lines." Blizzard took that feedback and went "Hm, instead of giving everyone utility that rounds out their classes, how about you can get just one of those abilities, and thats only if you choose to not take another super powerful ability to do so. Also we're gonna take out the powerful and interesting ones so its not really a question anyway"I sincerely question if they playtest the game anymore.But hey, prot warriors are gonna wreck face in the arena going into avatar all the time, so that's good.