My thoughts on Essentia and it's store so far.

The first thing I'll mention is the conversion. I understand why it's staggered but I think it's way too slow. I'm worried I'll hit the glory cap and not be able to manage excess glory by converting to essentia. I'm sure this will be a bit of a problem with the other currencies as well. The next thing in terms of conversion is the raid tickets. The only really valuable thing in raids is the 10,000 radiance and the glory I would usually end up getting, but with the way the tickets are priced I feel like I get better value out of saving the essentia. This is partially because I can't convert all that glory back into essentia because I'll hit the glory cap. I haven't quite done the calculations yet, but I'm not sure the glory I get from raids will pay back the essentia cost of the raid tickets, and off the top of my head I don't think it does.

Now for the store. I like it quite a bit. The T4A is good, T7B is good, T6B and T3A are good, T6CC is good. Alloys are all good, and I love the addition of primordial dust. The sigs are also really good. There are a couple things I think are missing namely the battlecast relic shards. I'm assuming the 5* shards and sigs are moving to Mysterium so I have no problem with that, but I'd still like to have battlecast shards. Another thing, and I think this is a bug, but why is there only 1 6* innate stone per week. Is it at least supposed to be +5 or +10 or something.

There's pretty much all my thoughts. Anything I didn't mention I probably think is fine or not worth mentioning. All in all I think the store is good aside from no battlecast shards, but there are some conversion kinks that really need to be worked out.

Comments

ahmynuts

We found the needle in the haystack

Batman024

Just did the calculation. Essentia to glory is actually valued 1:1. Raids cost around 12,600 essentia. I don't get that much glory for raids so it absolutely doesn't pay for itself.

BringPopcorn

Whoever designed this store is only using one side of the brain....

So I got a limit to trade 100 glory for essentia 4 times... And just received a mail with the weekly stuff for 1000.... I got 16720... I will be losing some.

Batman024

@BringPopcorn agreed. And with time if this isn't fixed it will spread to Trophy Tokens.

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2935597#Comment_2935597

New MSD video about to drop in an hour: The NEW ESSENTIA Store is SENSATIONAL!!!

CandyCane2

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2935655#Comment_2935655

well congratulations on making it to the top on the “This Months Leaders” for like the 15th time lol

Batman024

This all sucks cuz the store itself is actually pretty good, but all this conversion stuff is gonna drag it way down. I thought the other stores were supposed to be running. With the Mysterium store not updating I'm thinking there has to be some mistake or bug here.

CandyCane2

@Batman024 didn’t they say all of our currencies will automatically be converted into Essentia?

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2935683#Comment_2935683

No, they said they wouldnt

Batman024

After a while, but not immediately.

CandyCane2

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2935688#Comment_2935688

dang

HuskerCool

They should at least remove the caps on the old currencies until it’s all gone.., whiwhile also incincreasing the amount we can convert each week

D0ctor_S

I'm all for the Essentia Store but again, like with the BG Store update a few months back, there is nothing for ranking up the rest of your roster.

5* Sig stones gone, T4CC, T4B, T1A gone. I'm not far off maxing all 4*, and getting all 5* to max sig.

Obviously this won't be the most pressing issue for others but it does seem to be an oversight from the Game Economy team.

GroundedWisdom

My question, and I mean no offense to whoever designed it, but why?

I don't recall having multiple currencies being a large issue. If you want one particular currency, you play the game mode you receive it in. It's really not that complicated.

Personally I find this more complex than anything, really.

houndogακι

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2935727#Comment_2935727

This!

I want to rank up my 5* (after all 1*2*3*4* max) and there is no stuff

Just redicilous

Batman024

@D0ctor_S @houndogακι I'm hoping they allocate those to the Mysterium store, and I was guessing that that was their intention. I guess only time will tell, but I'm with you guys. I really wanted those 5* resources in particular. I also want 5* shards as well because I'm hunting for Immortal Iron Fist.

Batman024

I just saw the update. The mysterium store seems good so far for the lower materials I was looking for. They also have the battlecast materials, so that alleviates that. This conversion thing is still a hot mess though.

D0ctor_S

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2935882#Comment_2935882

Agreed, just wish they'd been released together and we had an option to convert some currency to mysterium (got a ton but also a load of glory/BG tokens)

Still think the T4B/T1A limit and T4CC being absent from the Mysterium store is poor. The answer will be "run the daily quests' but I already do that

KillerM

its going to take 62 weeks to convert all my incursion shards for assentia have a laugh 🤣 Whoever came up with this isn't very smart to say the least