Originally Posted by
Jester Joe
Essences are far more grindy is the issue.
Near the end of Legion, you'd get your first few legendaries pretty quickly on alts, and the BoA token that your main would get can be passed along to alts, along with the currency to just straight up buy the tokens.
Nothing like that exists for essences still.
And then tack on the cape, which as far as I know, has no actual catch up, it just has a cap currently. You still have to work through all the ranks and each week the gap just gets larger.