Essence: Something is backwords here

I just played a game on a low level account I created years ago, figured with the new runes it would be a much better experience.

I was so excited to hit new levels because I read in posts everywhere "You get plenty of blue essence while leveling and all these complaints are from people that have playing for a while and feel screwed"

I just hit level 10 and....

500 orange essence and a skin shard, a ward shard and Annie...

So ON AN ACCOUNT WHERE I ACTUALLY NEED BLUE ESSENCE I GET ORANGE... WTF?