Originally Posted by
Eapoe
Pretty sure most people are using sarcasm when they say 10 minutes as it’s still a pretty fast endeavor.
Realistically, 3 invasions per week at about 10-30 minutes a piece ranging from efficient to extremely slow with no knowledge. The lesser Vision monument takes 2-5 minutes per day. Add on only clearing the necessary areas in the Horrific Visions for cloak upgrades taking 10-20 minutes (again, this is only clearing required areas and not full clear with end boss). You don’t need to cap Mementos to get max research rank, but it does help. Add on multiple runs of Visions for cloak rank, and realistically you are looking at 40 mins to an hour and 35 mins a week of dedicated time to upgrade your cloak.
For efficiency, there’s food to grant you “stealth” and bypass the entire 1st area along with most mobs in the other areas in the Visions themselves.
For the assault areas the events are your friend. Hell, the week with the stranded wagon grants almost 50%, if not more, completion towards the assault on its own between tagging all the mobs and the event itself.
Any time over that hour and a 1/2 then you are either severely under geared, doing extra things you don’t have to but want to, and/or just need to look into how to speed things up. That is no time at all to give to one character. Now, if someone has multiple alts then the issue is on that player to upgrade, and actually do the things required to upgrade. I say that as someone who believes some game mechanics should be account wide. Essences to an extent should be account wide, maybe up to rank 2; but not full ranks. That’s part of the choice a person makes for having alts.