What is the point of these extra hoops to jump through? Either the essences don’t cost much of this new currency, making acquiring them trivial and the currency relatively pointless, or they cost a stupid amount of the currency which is just going to annoy everyone and not really fix the problem.
At this point, what is so bad about just making them available on alts for free? Why the hoops and extra work to implement this? You guys bored or something?