I don’t see how. It is going to be easier to get some and they are on equal footing with the others - all they need to do is play the game.
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Players aren’t interested in hearing that. These are the same players that complained about there being nothing to do in WoD.
So blizzard created lots of activities and now the game is unplayable for alts.
I especially enjoy the complaints that players are “forced” to do meaningless grinds. I will never understand how raids, dungeons, bgs, rated pvp, world pvp and world events aren’t content.
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So play them.
The most helpful thing people can tell you is : play your alts.
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Man, if they were complaining about Essences, wait till they discover the Cloak and Visions in 8.3.
already started
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/no-skip-for-opening-83-quest-chain-with-alts/399461
Redoing the content is boring but unless you really want to progress than you are given essences that are more than fine for alts. I don’t agree with the system as I find it overly redundant for something that feels necessary and not optional. But I don’t agree alts should be ready 'n going at the level of your main.
Devs seem to be out of ideas and need a fresh take on all of this - they are relying too heavily on the Legion structure.
Legion was OK but what was nice was the thing they compare essences too (artifact tints) was OPTIONAL. So whether you wanted to get it or not, or get it months down the line at your own pace, it was fine… most of these feel like you are gimping your character if you want to experience even a fraction of the end-game and don’t have 'em.
Alts get a comback in Shadowlands, but I think Bliz gave up on BfA - too broken to fix I guess.
i tried 
So you came back and got one character essences and got bored of that already in a week ?
The problem with people’s arguments is that the key argument is 8.2 content being mandatory, and it’s just not. There are 5 total essences that you can get from 8.2 activities (not including role versions as if you can get one you can get the other 2), 1 isn’t used even now, and another is being nerfed to the ground to encourage players to use something else. This leaves lucid dreams from followers, the naz rep essences and the mech rep essences, all of which are having their requirements cut in half, all of which are also optional for 99% of the population.
The other essences are all either going to still be current content such as the ie essence, the bg essence, the arena essence, the new raid essence, the op: mech essence, the m+ or the rep essences. All still current, all still good.
Tldr giant block of text saying the games still perfect; just because it’s not what you want to hear doesn’t mean it’s not correct. This is why blizzard doesn’t listen to you.
Lol… Lucid, ERT, (and well to a lesser extent), are all pretty much mandatory for healers progressing. Healers don’t have any alternative essences that are useful in any way.
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I would bet that it’s been done without rank 3s of those essences. The m+ essence and the raid essence are both good. And look at you, 8/8 heroic and you don’t even have your 2nd minor unlocked. You’re not making a good case here.
The m+ essence isn’t as bad at rank 3 but it doesn’t scale well and does nothing for your throughput if you don’t need the extra cd, the raid essence is terrible. Heroic is irrelevent after the first few weeks anyway, if I wanted to push this character into serious content I would have to grind those essences or I would fall behind every other healer. This is a fact :.
And that’s my point. 1% of the population is doing serious content that really need to even bother with the grind. Typically, if you’re doing that level of content you don’t care what you have to do, you’re doing to do what you have to do get whatever edge you can. I’ve personally done both the naz and mech grind to revered 4 times to prep the characters for next patch. I had no aspirations of doing mythic raiding or keys over 10 this patch so I didn’t bother. And no, it hasn’t bothered me in the slightest because I enjoy seeing progression in my characters. Never has WoW had account wide power progression and I’m incredibly unsure why people expect it now. Putting in catchup mechanics as we’re getting was the right call imo.
Never has WoW had insane power progression tide to rep grinding. Before 8.2 I didn’t bother with reputations on other characters. Even my raiding toon didn’t have exalted because I would do all my reputations/achievements on another character.
We really shouldn’t have to do the same dull content over and over again in order to push our characters into something we want to do. Essences aren’t comparable to gear because you naturally get gear by doing the content you enjoy. The throughput gain from having ideal essences is huge as a healer, many people defending this are dps mains who don’t understand why people are frustrated with this.
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That’s not true. Not entirely anyway. Do you not recall the Scryer/Aldor grind? Sons of Hodir? Those were required, however they offered boa tokens for alts. That’s a fair argument though, unlike “I don’t want to do work, game too hard” like most boa essence posts. That never got nerfed to revered though, which would you consider a better route?
My main is a guardian druid that uses both rep essences. I also play as resto much more than I dps these days. The character I’m working on now is a MW monk. You can probably guess which essences I’m going to use. I don’t want to say that I’m defending it either, it just doesn’t bother me. It feels very much like gear progression to me, even with a massive grind stapled to it, which to me makes it less dull. If they made it boa tomorrow I wouldn’t care, if they stuck to their guns and just nerfed it little by little, I wouldn’t care either. I’m still doing my grinds, I’m actually in game right now on my DH doing my mech daily before it resets. All I’ve been saying is that it’s not as necessary as people seem to think it is.
About to be done on my third alt and although I would have preferred them to be account wide, besides essences there isn’t much else to ‘grind’ anymore anyway. Azerite neck goes up pretty easily passively now to 70.
Yup which is what the terrible 7.3.5 changes were forced into the game and designed to do.
Those eventually became BOA, and even then those were small enchants that weren’t as important as essences were. I’d rather not bring up expansions that are over 10 years old anyway, game balance was a mess back then with unbalanced racials, profession bonuses, and class balance etc.
This is the problem I have with it though. It’s not like gear progression whatsoever. I can run mythic 10s and get gear, I can run the current raid and get geared up, I can farm benthic tokens and pvp to get geared up, I’ll never be able to get lucid dreams unless I do my dailies in Nazjatar. There are a 1000 ways to gear but only 1 way to get a specific essence? Why is this even a thing?
It wouldn’t matter as much if the essences were balanced accordingly, but like you and I both know the other healer essences are absolute dog mess compared to the 3 reputation ones. I just don’t understand what was wrong with us playing the game… Why did we need something like this? 