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Hi everyone,
I’m writing to address a significant oversight in the new Essentia Store rollout. As an end-game player, I appreciate the move towards a more streamlined currency. However, the complete removal of lower-tier rank-up materials (T4B, T3B, T1A, and T2/T3 Class Catalysts) from the store based on progression level is causing a major issue.
Even at high progression levels, these "early game" resources remain essential. For instance, many of us focus on maxing out our 4-star roster to optimize Arena grinds and milestone efficiency. By removing these items from the store, you haven’t "cleaned up" our experience; you’ve effectively created a bottleneck that prevents us from managing our full roster.
The logic that advanced players "don't need" these items is flawed. Progression should grant us more options, not fewer. We should have the agency to decide how to spend our currency, even if it's on lower-tier materials for collection or secondary goals.
I suggest adding a "Legacy Materials" tab or a filter in the Essentia Store, ensuring that all players—regardless of their title—retain access to the foundational building blocks of champion progression.
Would love to hear if others are hitting this same wall.

With the introduction of essentia, Kabam said our purchasing power wouldn't be going down.

But I usually buy my raid tickets with loyalty. It was previously 2k loyalty per raid ticket. Now, 2k loyalty buys you 20 essentia, and it takes 70 essentia to buy a raid ticket. This means the purchasing power of my loyalty has been cut by an astounding amount - it was just devalued by over 70%.

It was also previously stated that the old exchanges would be around a while to ease the transition. But that is not the case - we are no longer able to buy raid tickets with anything but essentia or units.

To break it down: if I had known this would be the exchange rate, and converted all my loyalty to raid tickets, I would have been able to buy 3.5x the raid tickets with the loyalty I have than I can today.

Is there something I'm misunderstanding here? Have I made a mistake in my math? If not, this seems like a massive purchasing power reduction for the millions of loyalty that I have. I didn't worry about doing this conversion early because I was assured that purchasing power would not be reduced, but unless I'm wrong here, that's not how the reality has played out at all.