Thanks for the replies. To avoid confusion: I never really stopped playing the game, I just didn't level any characters besides what was current content since 2016 (i.e. I have every class at 120 on my main account for solo play). I just no longer raid hardcore or do any serious pvp, nor do I carefully study the patch notes like I used to be.

I'm honestly don't care about reaching the level cap with this team: when I started it I just wanted to do each dungeon at the level it was intended for. I did for example all the Burning Crusade Heroic dungeons at lvl 70. Meaning I had to turn off XP gain. So the slower the xp, the better for me, the more I can enjoy this.

@MiRai
Completely agree, and since they are trying to fix what is broken in 8.3 one would expect that they make the essences available to everyone (could be glyphs, a vendor, a simple quest chain). But no, they tmho make it even more annoying to catch up/play an offspec. The days where I had 3-4 mains (Shaman, Lock, Priest, Paladin) and I could easily play the role I wanted to / was necessary have long been gone.

Off-topic: the first day was a bit frustrating to set everything up, but then I went through some of your excellent videos and that was a huge inspiration to setup up my stuff again in my own way. Huge thanks for that.

@Lyonheart
Yeah I did the AV grind on my main account to get the last 5 classes to 120 (think I lost 3 in total btw). But I don't really want to do it on alt accounts because I have zero interest to take them through the AP / essence grind to do end game content. I'm having fun multiboxing leveling through dungeons when none is around to solo play with.

@Tin
Thanks for the videos!

@andreauk
I'm curious how you've setup your disc priest. I've always like the fact that they could contribute damage, but they historically were also able to get the team out of trouble. I feel that is nowadays no longer true, i.e. once you fall behind a shaman can top off the team, but with a disc it's a nearly guaranteed wipe. I have some spare shamans and druids in the up until lvl 100, so I'm considering swapping the priest out, although I must say that holy is an improvement.