Riot, what the hell is this?

I only get an average of 600 blue essence per level. SOMETIMES I get shitty 270 BE ones (all 450 shards), and I almost never get 1200 per (one 6300 shard). Levels take me about 8 games each assuming a 50% winrate plus 2 first wins of the day. So you're telling me... After working to get 2 good ranks with my champion, I need to play 8 * (3250/600) = 43 games. 43 games just to unlock a champion emote that I rightfully earned. And an average person might play 3 games per day. So that's 14 days. 2 weeks of playing.

???

There is absolutely no reason for the cost to be this high. There is no pay to win aspect of blue essence. There is no trade-off, or decision on blue essence vs IP since you can't even buy this with RP.

If you're going to do something, make it harder to get mastery 6 and 7 by actually increasing the requirements, not the blue essence. Mastery 6 could be changed to 5 S- ranks or higher. Mastery 7 could be 10 S ranks or higher.

The most the BE cost should ever be is 500.