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@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ Why you should use it
 
 EssentialsX provides several performance enhancements and fixes that are currently not available in Essentials and Spigot-Essentials. [See the wiki for details.](https://github.com/drtshock/Essentials/wiki)
 
-EssentialsX is almost a completely drop-in replacement for Essentials. **EssentialsX requires [Vault](http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/vault/) if you have a supported permissions plugin.**
+EssentialsX is almost a completely drop-in replacement for Essentials. However, it has different requirements:
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+* **EssentialsX requires [Vault](http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/vault/) to enable chat prefix/suffixes and group support if you have a supported permissions plugin.**
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+* **EssentialsX requires Java 7.**
 
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