Reason why the Temporal Essence drought is so frustrating is because Twilight Essence which is supposed to be rarer is much more accessible being given constantly in events and even purchasable in the emporium (if you're Champion in Arena which is not hard to achieve). Most players would have lots stocked up wasting away because of the Temporal Essence bottleneck, you need a total of 275 Temporal Essence per character before you can even use your Twilight Essence which is ridiculous for an average player. That lack of resource just kills the satisfaction of trying to get as much of your characters stronger which lots of players want to do in games like these. I hope they just give it more regularly in events. Should be way more common and accessible of a reward than Twilight Essences at least. Would also help if you can buy a fixed amount from the emporium weekly at the very least so you can stock up on all 3 essences just by buying them with in game resources. I know it's whale bait but even the prices for a good amount of Temporal Essence in the shop is ridiculous as a dolphin myself.
Actually the reasoning behind this is simple. It's their way of making money and maybe even hide the fact that this makes the game pay to win. The power/stat jump from +5 to +15 is by far the largest, and if they made it that Temporal Essence to be easily accessible while Twilight Essence to be rarer; there will be literally little reason for spenders to purchase Twilight Essence. People will spend less trying to +16-25 their units if the power jump is small. So how does this hide the fact that the game is actually pay to win? Well, generously give out Twilight Essence in events and make Tidal Essence easily accessible via shop. An illusion to the players that if they just have enough Temporal Essence, they'll be able to max their units. Now, players will look at that shiny 100-200 Temporal Essence limited time offer for $50-$100!
@@Genemesis That's whale level spending. There is no chance even for a dolphin. Not everybody has 100 bucks for 200 temporal when it takes 275 temporal to get to 15+ per character, even dolphins are out of this equation. And it really sucks to know you invested so much time and money but you run into an obstacle you can't overcome unless you spend money you don't have. I get it, it's a game for whales, I can always quit playing if I don't like it.
With temporal essence, the problem isn't even that they're not coming fast enough. The problem is they are a bottleneck that makes optimal (if even any) use of twilight essence unavailable. i think a lot of players are sitting on hundreds to thousands of twilight essences they can't use or have to wait to use to maximize resources they won't be able to use again soon. It's less even that p2p gives players enough yellows, it's that people are sitting on piles of reds they can't use and that feels bad. Whale has more than you, expected. Whale has *less* reds than you because you can't even use your f2p resource, feels awful.
The last paragraph was a teaser about dungeon-style map exploration! I've been asking for this since the beginning!! Any comment about that? I think it would be super fun, and encourage re-exploring around the map, possibly with friends
What if we can exchange Tidal Essences to Temporal Essences? In a reasonable ratio. In addition to Temporal Shard so more players, specially f2p players can gain more even if they don’t rank high in Dream Realms?
If you give every player everything, you'll go out of business. You must keep people paying money, or there’s no point in making the game. Take out half of the boring PVP crap, and you’ll have plenty of room to expand the game without it being overwhelming for players.
