October 1st seems likely, cant wait
Of course I am serious, essences are a joke of a grind, most of them involve less work than getting madatory shoulder enchants from WotLK rep. When in WoW's history could you have been done with all supplementary grinds within a month and be between Normal and Heroic geared yet never having touched endgame content(I used endgame content instead of raids to preclude the use of m+ as gearing). Even in Legion you could maybe squeze out 4 Legendaries in a month after they killed the anti bad luck protection and no account wide AK AND you had to level the weapon for every spec. And the farther back you go the slower catchup gearing was and the more additional mandatory stuff you had thrown at you, like good luck not doing Leggo Cloak or Ring on your alt, which is essentially the same thought process as Essences but more grindy and forced into raiding.So what pray tell do you do with your alts, and tell me, did you get the Leggo Cloak and Ring in MoP and WoD? Did you get BiS Leggos on your alts in Legion and level their weapons before AK was global? How quickly did your alts gear up to the level you found them strong enough in Cata? That's I think as far as I have to go back to make my point, BfA is far friendlier to alts time having to be spent wise, but you guys want more and more and honestly expect that a power up mechanic to be made even quicker just so you can churn out alts of the power level intended for mains. Get the easy essences and live with them, maybe pour time into your best essences or the best ones you realistically can work on, but do not literally keep asking to bring alts closer and closer to the power of a dedicated main. You obviously don't even care of progressing your alts you just want them to instantly have anything you got on your main, completely destroying the whole point of an MMORPG's character progression.I am a okay with 8.3 making tier 2 unlocked account wide if you have tier 3 unlocked on a character because that makes sense(and in most cases you still have to do either the biggest part of finishing the essence or even do the whole thing because it is tied to an achievement where during the progress you get it anyways) as it still puts alts a level lower than mains. Though obviously that is not want people complaining about alts and essences want, because getting rank 2 in most things (even BotE) is a complete joke.