BoA, the "Grind", and alts

We're all for supporting alts and rerolling in general, but we don't want the experience to be that your best dude goes out and does all the work and then sends the rewards off to characters that you don't plan to play until they're fully complete. That doesn't really feel like a role-playing game.

Examples of things we don't think you should have to do over and over is getting achievements on different characters or grinding rep on multiple characters. (The former we'd like to eventually fix once we solve the technical issues and the latter we work around by e.g. making Hodir enchants bind to account.) We're not crazy about the idea of your main earing tons of PvP or PvE gear for your alt though. If you want an alt, play the alt.

Q u o t e:
GC, me and everyone else in the 8k+ nerd point club FULLY approve of account wide achievements. Members in my guild have said the number 1 reason they don't play their alts more or reroll is the scary thought of having to regrind achievements.

Achievements should be battle.net account wide. Everyone here wants that. We can't do it yet, technically, but that's the eventual goal.

We could still mark which of your actual characters (or multiples as the case may be) literally accomplished the achievement.

Q u o t e:
How is having Achievements apply to accounts any different than glad handing gear to alts from a 'main'?

Gear is pretty much necessary for progression. Achievements are designed to be completely optional content. Thus it feels punitive to make you do a challenging achievement on multiple characters or for you to not want to play your alt because she doesn't have as many achievements.

I know it might not feel the same to some of you guys, we think there is a slippery slope between "Why should I have to gear up my alt independently?" to "Why should I have to level my alt independently?" That's not to say the door is completely closed on any kind of hand-me-down gear, but it's something we want to approach very carefully.