Gearing an alt isn't the object of this discussion in the past thanks to the work you had previously done with the main alts could just go straight for the dungeons/raid without much grind beside levelling, blizzard new mantra is basically you should redo everything in order to play alts.
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the middle ground would be making AK account wide and ask you to go around and do some WQ to get the AP needed