Because their pitch for the 1 per week is not that they’re “limiting” you, but giving you a catchup to stay in place if you missed runs, or failed the occasional run, rather than feeling like you have been permanently set back behind.
Believe me, I know what it sounds like.
Either way, speeding it up right now is not what they intend to do.
Possibly another thing they don’t want is people banking Vessels for the future when they’re going to need 9 runs or so for that last cloak levelup.
At this stage, this system is okay for anyone who haven’t yet managed to push through the majority of the vision in a single run. But for those that can do this, there’s little in terms of benefits for doing so. As far as it goes with the main objective.
The extra research unlocks will make things smoother in future runs for sure, and get to stuff like socket unlocks later on. Most of the benefit you’ll be getting now is practice for when you have much less room for error when doing full mask runs and stuff like that.
the last upgrade for rank 15 is something like 16 pages. so its going to take at least 2 weeks to upgrade the final rank unless you stockpile keys. the last couple of ranks are all multiple pages.
I think it’s 6 for r13, 12 for r14, and 18, for r15.
With the 5 Vessel limit in the bag, and 25k Coalescing, a person can stockpile up to blitz through r14, but then they’ll be starting from scratch for 15.
Of course, to have that stockpile for 14, they’ll have had to have been creative on 12/13 so that they were building the stockpile then for r14 week after accounting for the uses for 12/13 weeks.
It’s Blizzard’s way to artificially increase playing time.
By limiting it to 2 it means you need 3 runs, which means you need to farm more vessels thus staying online longer, which means they get to show the executives at Activision that players are more engaged with the game and so they (other executives, not players) deserve more money.
Pages dropping from lost areas isn’t a bug. They’re just capped at two pages per run, even if you complete three or four side areas.
It’s a hard cap. No bug, no RNG. When you’re going through the rewards at the end of the vision, the first two chests you open will each have one page in them. The others will not.
But it requires more time spent acquiring Vessels so you can do those extra Visions.
If only there was the same concern for perception. At least in some areas.
Activity and participation means nothing if it’s essentially forced content/required to do just to be able to keep up with the main objective which in itself ties into the very core features of the newly released main content.
I wonder if the amount is going to become even more pages required. At some point it seems like it will exceept or at least be on par with how many vessels you can obtain in a week thus being behind forever.
The lost areas generate a lot more corrupted momentos, it seems like. If your only goal is to complete the quest, there is no point in going to lost areas right now.
Or, do 2 lost areas only for maximum momentos…you can get your 2 pages from those. It’s 2 sections regardless of which (aside from the main). Though if you do more than 2, it’ll be in the chests from the easier ones.
Then the gear is from killing Thrall. Though if you don’t increase the challenge, it’s not worth it. Did 3 sections + Thrall on my DK, got only a 420 reward. I know you have to keep upping the challenge and all, though not sure what determines the # on your first run of the week…I thought it started higher.
So, I’m Super Lazy Casual Man, and the only content I have been doing are dailies on the weekend and the visions. I guess I should not worry about completing every zone if I only need to worry about two for the quest, because that’s all I care about. Thanks for not allowing me to waste energy or time needlessly, OP.
I decided that it was a bridge too far when I saw that Corruptforged gear is sellable on the AH. It’s pay to win. I guess the Devs idea of how to enable us to target specific corruptions on our gear is:
1.) “Buy WoW Tokens (at least 5-6).”
2.) “Sell Token for Gold on the AH.”
3.) "Buy Infinite Stars corrupted gear for 2 million+ gold."