I’ve enjoyed levelling on that alts, actually. I got my first Horde character to 60 on January 1 doing Threads of Fate, it was super easy, and she is already Level 16 Renown, gained a lovely mount (Basion) most of the Covenant gear set and is well on the way towards raid level gear.
I probably enjoying levelling her up more than I did my main. My only issue is that my reputations are pretty low, especially my Covenant ones.
Fortunately, my alts are just for crafting and gathering, so if I do decide to level them, they won’t have to return to the maw or torghast. Quest gear will be good enough for them.
This expansion is alt friendly only in that they made the leveling time shorter. I have only managed to get two toons to 60 simple because of the immense list of chores that open at 60.
The problem is that some people clearly DO mean “alt friendly” means having everything handed to them because they did it on their main. There’s even someone in this thread complaining that they have to do the covenant campaign on their alt to get the campaign rewards! (Without the timegating, of course.)
I know it’s hard to get WoW players to agree on anything, but can we at least all agree that you don’t need a legendary to do the storyline?
Unless you expect every alt to get CE/AotC/KSM/other things that require high difficulties, almost all of the power progression is optional.
If you want your alt to be more powerful than most people’s mains, then yeah, you might have to work for that some.
You do catch up fairly quickly with the renown to be honest. But yeah, I agree with the soul ash and everything else. It could be worse but it could also be better.
Edit: One thing I don’t like on alts is doing the same covenant quests multiple times. They do take quite a bit of time to do. That’s imo the worst part about the covenant grind.
The Maw is terrible, why would you run it on alts? Torghast upgrades are account wide I believe, but still unfun. Anima farming is the only real issue as renown is easily gained. Heck, Legendary memories are even account wide.
I’ve done everything I need to do though. I completed my weeklies, dailies, and covenant questlines so far. The way I understood it was that we should be able to catch up to the current renown cap on an alt by completing extra quests that offer renown, which I did do. But now my quests don’t offer the renown.
I should be able to hit 21 before the end of the week.