Do I really have to do 11 - 15 M+

Just because they aren’t (to use your own phrase against you) dedicating their life to the forums for the past 2 weeks doesn’t mean they are trolling or spamming.

I am running into this same issue. I run a 14 and get a piece of 421 gear, I still need 1 drake crest to upgrade it to 4/8 so I can use my wyrm crests to upgrade it to 8/8. So then I need to spam at least 2 6-10’s to get my drake crests. The disparity doesn’t make sense.

Although, this is absolutely great news:
Continuing the discussion from Feedback: New Upgrade System:

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