Quote Originally Posted by VoiceMemo View Post
Really, 1 game day wait is too long? Back in the day we used to have to wait a FULL conquest week for certain upgrades. Game is on easy mode already.
If it was only 1 game day per piece, it'd be reasonable. The thing is that none of the reforging only takes 1 game day to complete...
Relic armor is 4 game days to fully upgrade.
Artifact armor is 5 game days baseline, which can be reduced by paying a rather large portion of eschan beads (which are both slow to obtain and a capped resource.)

All of the NPCs involved are another bottleneck since each will only handle upgrading a single piece at a time. I don't think we are going to see the gating removed entirely, but it would be a definite QOL improvement for everyone if say, the reforging wait was reduced to 1 minute for the stages that Monisette handles. That would cut the upgrade process time per piece down to the same as pre +2/+3 upgrade stages, and make it less painful for new players to bring their gear to the 119ilvl stage.