Seems to me if you weren't doing every WQ/assault quest every day since 8.3 release its kind of your own fault if you didn't get the rank 4's. There's at least 32 possible paragon chests from each of the 8.3 factions and a lot more with the bonus rep buff that has come around a couple times. Not to mention DMF buff, and the buff they applied to increase drop chances. And a hell of a lot more paragons chests from 8.2.Show me concrete proof that you did everything possible(especially after the buff to drop chance) to obtain the rank 4's and I'll listen to your cries about RNG.
Saddly alot of this year i haven't been able to play as much, why..... I work at my local hospital during a fricken global pandemic. 60-70 hrs a week at work, hard to go all out when your helping your community fight this crap while people get to stay home. Even lost my mother in law and we couldn't be there by her side.. I've done my share of hard grinding, RNG gods defintly not in my favor. Never the less these essences should not be removed, just made inactive. People who has this yes give them a feat of strength but allow players who want to collect them be able to
The worst possible outcome here would be to make them obtainable again. It's going to start looking like Blizzard uses the threat to remove rewards to incite player activity. They have to just remove them. You didn't get it? Tough luck! If you don't like RNG what on earth are you doing playing this game? It's like complaining the water is all wet when you go swimming.
Turn Hertz locker into an achievement similar to Herald of the Titans, only allow players at level 50 and below a specific itemlevel to earn the achievement.Problem solved, collectors can still earn the big title for all R4 essences, and earn some old R4 essences from doing pvp in the new seasons in shadowlands, as a bit of bonus legacy loot.On a side note, allow players to have AI allies when doing island expeditions on heroic/mythic, so queue times won't be unbearable in shadowlands for anyone trying to get the rank 4 worldvein. I still haven't gotten mine.
Well, won't get some rank 4's due to RNG not being kind. Not like I'm going to get rated arena/bg rating of 2400 anyways before prepatch. But talk about communication - some will be there now none will be what a leap.
They should just remove the achievement and not the rank 4s. I have 24/28 ( gave away an azshara essence that I did not need to someone that did for the title, so could have been 25/28). I know that I will be bummed out for not getting the title because it is insanely difficult to claim rating as ret (no going holy is not a viable bit of advice, too much to learn think as healer and then you add pvp on top for an unseasoned person just not good results) meanwhile destro, fire, havoc in 2s and gushing rogues can just cruise to the top.Ultimately I had hoped that blizzard could have used essences as cosmetic variants for existing spells: like unbound force replacing arcane missiles, purification protocol for solar beam, etc. But blizzard didn't do that and here we are with a plethora of items that by all intents and purposes worthless. This isn't asking for a participation trophy, I and many others have earned way way more rank 4s than most people so really this would have been 2nd/3rd place rewards. But no blizzard is abstracted from what they think will draw players into the game.
Also as a correction to the azshara essences, three of those drop per kill. Recently killed her 5 times and all those times we got 3 essences. Also azshara was never going to be one of the ones assumed removed with pre-patch, only the ones stated and the seasonal essences (pvp and M+). And if it all people assumed that her essences were to be removed then equivalently the Nzoth formless void would logically be removed as well.
I think it must work as arena master achievement.
Those people that are whining about Paragon r4 essences have been slacking aswell is my take if that is the take on the people that has not gotten 2400+ or Azshara etc in time. There has been plenty of time to get this. The people that are complaining have not been playing and doing the dailies actively, if they did they all are oddballs and the system doesnt work at all.I got my formless void a few months ago, but then again, im doing the dailies each day, so just as fair as the other essences in my eyes since there exists a bad luck protection for the paragons.
Removed
I'm rly glad they remove it. So I dont have to waste my time on this. Title actually crap. Not even close to "Immortal" or similar old titles. But ppl loves to collect crap and waste their time on it.
I checked today on the PTR and it is not possible to buy rank 4 essences from vendors even if you are eligible to buy them right now. Memory of Lucid Dreams & Focusing Iris etc. were not visible for me on the vendors anymore even though they are on live. So buy them now if you want them!
A Guild Master answered to my ticket about that issue:#####################################Dear Ioannis,Issue ID: #7*******Your ticket has received the following response:Hi there A****,I'm GM L******, thank you for your patience while I was reaching you and your ticket, with the Shadowlands Pre Patch coming on the 13th, Hearthstone Battlegrounds changes and Call of Duty season 6 soon™, this has made us exceptionally busy.I can see you have some concerns about the rank 4 essences and the blog posts, (before you shout at me I am going to link this wowhead post as it shows the 3 updates in once place https://www.wowhead.com/news=318460/confusion-surrounding-rank-4-essences-will-they-be-unobtainable-in-shadowlands-p)I do understand your confusion and sadly this is not something the games master team can discuss as this is about developer decisions in the game, and this is far above our heads, if you are seeking this achievement, I would strongly recommend doing this now and dont delay. It is better to assume the worse than to assume the best :)Sorry I cannot answer your question exactly as this is something we cannot discuss or speculate on. Thank you for your understanding.Stay safe and well.Kind regards,L*****(/¯◡ ‿ ◡)/¯ ~ Here's the handy link for your case:https://battle.net/support/en/case/detail/7*********Click here to review and resolve your ticket. If you continue to experience issues, you can respond to your ticket with additional information.If you do not resolve the ticket or provide an additional response within one week, we will resolve the ticket automatically and you'll receive a final update via email.Regards,Blizzard Support#####################################
I made a ticket regarding this issue. I reached 2400 in arena yesterday October 10th. Technically this final week is still part of the season so I believe I should still receive the award. They're response was