World of Warcraft Outlines Rank 3 Essences and New Currency

Blizzard has outlined obtaining rank 3 essences on alts in World of Warcraft. Here’s what you need to know.

The forum post discusses a new system which allows those players who have rank 3 Azerite for at least one character to now acquire these rank 3 Azerite essences for alts. This involves a currency called Echoes of Ny’alotha.

Basically, if a rank 3 essence has currently been earned by one of your other characters, the team notes that MOTHER will then offer you rank 3 essences in exchange for 500 Echoes of Ny’alotha. Furthermore, if you can buy one of these essences from MOTHER, you’ll receive Echoes accordingly per activity:

• Black Empire Assault – 125 Echoes of Ny’alotha
• Aqir/Amathet/Mantid/Mogu Assault – 75 Echoes of Ny’alotha
• Horrific Visions – 50 Echoes of Ny’alotha, plus 25 per additional objective completed (i.e. 150 Echoes for a full clear)
• Emissary Quest – 50 Echoes of Ny’alotha
• Heroic Darkshore Warfront – 75 Echoes of Ny’alotha
• Normal/Heroic/Mythic Ny’alotha raid bosses – 15-25 Echoes of Ny’alotha each, once per week per boss
• Ny’alotha Raid Finder wings – 25 Echoes of Ny’alotha
• Random Battleground wins – 15-25 Echoes of Ny’alotha
• Rated Arena wins – 10-25 Echoes of Ny’alotha baseline, scaling up with PvP rank
• Rated Battleground wins – 35 Echoes of Ny’alotha baseline, scaling up with PvP rank
• Weekly PvP Cache – 175 to 300 Echoes of Ny’alotha, based on PvP rank
• Mythic Keystone dungeon end-of-run chest – 3 Echoes of Ny’alotha per Keystone Level (i.e. 30 Echoes of Ny’alotha for a Mythic 10)
• Weekly Mythic Keystone Cache – 20 Echoes of Ny’alotha per highest Keystone Level

The post discuses why they decided upon this change, citing community feedback,

“We’ve seen discussion in the community wondering about the motivation for this change, especially considering that we previously signaled that we didn’t plan to make Essences account-wide. We’ve increasingly moved towards making cosmetics (mounts, pets, transmog, titles, etc.) and access to content (World Quest unlocks, dungeon attunements, etc.) account-wide, but we’ve tried to keep power (character levels, items, expansion-specific systems like artifacts or garrisons, etc.) character-specific.”