That's my concern as well. Once the realization sets in, people aren't going to be happy.
Grind for legendary recipies. Grind for soul ash.
And god help you if you want to switch alts, because have fun grinding it all again since there's no account-wide and no catch-up for legendaries.
That's just tiresome. Some people will do it regardless, but if I had to guess. a LOT of people aren't dealing with that headache a second time around(Essences).
what do you mean no account wide??
lets say i play my monk for 3 months and only touch an alt enough to cap
in that time my monk will have collected most of the general leggo powers which are account bound btw
i then log onto my alt and now i need to catch up with renown
current renown cap is about lets say 30
catch up renown is about 5 a week so maybe 6 weeks to catch up but in terms of actual power only 3
i can craft a leggo after 2 weeks
i gain leggo powers through the world bosses and dungeons and raids which i would be doing anyway
the real question is how long would you find acceptable for a fresh alt to have to catch up to ones main character
Could you at least get your facts straight? Memories are account-wide, Catch-up is already included since we won't be able to get layer 8 until later and once you have your 1-2 BiS leggies, you don't really need to do much more. Not to mention that Soul Ash cannot be grinded, since you only get one drop per wing and layer per week.
Memories don't need to be grinded either, since you only need to collect each once per account.