This was some napkin math I did on another thread. Next week we’ll have had access to 29 vessels, but only will have needed to run 17 for the cloak upgrades (and for 13-15 it’s require another 18). So in 5 weeks you’ve had access to almost double the vessels required to upgrade it all the way to rank 12. The grind really hasn’t been that bad. It’ll be a little worse for 14/15, but not awful like a lot of people think. If you’re not doing cutting edge content, you don’t really have to worry about it all that much.
As far as the gear, I’m not sure where I stand. I think the current drop levels are fine, and they should be gauranteed corruption pieces.