I honestly don't understand the point of parallel equip that takes the same time to farm, just that you need to farm different maps.
10 uber rare essences are 10 uber rare essences....only now that people are going to split time between EP1 and EP2, it's going to take people more time to farm one.
Not to mention that they have near identical states with most other level 70 weapons, so it's quite pointless. Once the seal shop comes out, you can get a 334 seal dragon tear and make a level 70 weapon in WAY less time than it would take to farm all the mats for a s2 level 70 weapon. Unless you spend like 12 hours a day just running season 2.
I don't know how many EPs s2 is scheduled to have, but it's going to be pretty stupid if we end up with 10 different level 70 weapons from s2, with the same type of mats (10 essences + raid stuff) and near identical stats.