Essences are killing alts and with the addition of corruption and the cloak, this problem has only become worse.
We have come from WoD and Legion that turned out to be some of the most alt friendly expansions to BFA where you are expected to farm the best azurite gear for you class, get essences that are locked behind multiple day grinds or even raid content that most people are not even seriously running any longer. On top of this we have the new corruptions, that are going to be improved through items always corrupting in visions, but nonetheless, more items to attempt to grind or feel left behind by others with better corruption. This ties into leveling the cloak as well, which does not feel as bad after the catch-up mechanics put in place but is yet another chore added to the already overflowing list of things you must do PER character.
It is for this exact reason that I myself as well as guildies and players in the community I’ve come across, do not want to play alts. You log in on your new 120 and enter the Chamber of the Heart and immediately log off because you are just simply overwhelmed with the fact that you have to level your neck, cape, and the biggest alt killer: getting every essence again. Simply making essences account bound would alleviate so much of this currently tedious grind and would lead to the rise of people actually playing and enjoying alts.
TLDR: Farming essences are killing alts. Make them account bound.
Don’t bother at this point. Just focus on making Shadowlands good.
Killing alts is what drove me away from the game in BfA. Already had SL preordered so I’ll wait and see if they fix it.
Get the easy ones. Iris in main. Worldvein, BoD, and Crucible as secondaries. Can’t really beat it for dungeons and you can max them in a few weeks with very little effort.
Getting alts to around 445 isn’t hard i have 15 of em , if you need higher than that there no longer a alt & should do the work to raise its ilvl
Ok 61 Paladin, understood.
Multiple day grinds!! 
For which class (other than Havoc DH) is the nerfed EP essence BiS major for?
Are you getting kicked from a raid on your havoc demon for using Breathe of the Dying essence as your major instead of Condensed Life-Force?
https://bloodmallet.com/
Have a good look. It’s not even a contender as a minor slot.
Or you know… Spend 2-4 hours at max level and get 4-5 essences and play your alt? You can get crucible rk3 basically instantly with the neck catchup on alts, BOTD rk1 by finishing the 8.3 intro, lucid dreams rk1 by doing the naz intro, memebeam by completing a +4 mythic plus, worldvein by doing 3 islands. It’s not hard.
LOL people have no sense of logic around here, stop with that. I’ve been doing end game content all week and all of last week on this toon. I started with three rank 1s, still only have one rank 3 as a minor. You think that’s stopping me!?
exactly; my monk from 8.2 has 1 rank 2, and a few rank 1 essences and i’ve completed up to +8 mythic plus. I have 8ish hours played at max level and that toon is 421 ilvl:
It’s not stopping anyone. They pretend that you have to have BiS rank 3 essences to play fresh 120 alts.
You’re going to have a difficult time getting through to the people who don’t want account bound essences.
They have absolutely no respect for humans that play WoW on a time budget (other priorities).
They will die on the hill that you sHoULd PuT tHe SaMe AmOuNt Of EfFoRt iN
LOL 
The entire game is a time sink. I don’t follow your train of thought.
I mean, as in, the people who invest the most time usually accomplish the most in the game, that is, how it’s always been, no?
Of course, it always has been.
But the base requirement of things you need to grind has got significantly more challenging to pick up and go on an alt over the expansions.
They’ll bring up Legion when it really was the other alt unfriendly expansion (until last patch where it was fixed)
This expansion is awful.
- Neck level
- Cloak level
- Essences
- Useable corruptions
- Azerite
It actually feels like every single patch has introduced another thing which makes playing alts exhausting.
Besides essences you’re having trouble getting those others up on alts?
Which one are you struggling with?
Can you show me in the post where I said i was struggling with any of them? I said that it’s made it increasingly more challenging to do because of the sheer boredom of repeating the content.
Also, if you think getting corruption currently is easy you’re a madman or we’re playing different games.
How is farming essences killing alts for you? Pick the 1 you want, go get rank 1. Or if you can’t, get a different rank 1. Play the alt and stop blaming things.
This is one of Scallion’s alts. Notice my cloak is easily kept up to date. 1 vision to go to max. My main essence is a rank 1. I do just fine DPS wise (simming at 52k for single target, 90k for aoe), though I have no IO rating and have limited myself to +9s so far. Work in progress though.
You used them as a reference without any context as to why. I assumed you were having issues.
There’s good news, Azerite this patch has better traits and you get enough coalescing visions to get many cloak upgrades.
From the coming week you’ll be getting corruptions from just levelling your cloak anyway. I never made that claim either that they were easy.
Level 1 essences… LOL
Yes, whats the issue with starting at 1? My main has 3s and 4s, my alts have whatever they’re up to. Oddly enough, they don’t sim so differently. Both do fine in M+.