What was Square trying to accomplish with the previous tome patch?

[Alkimi]

Their plan seems to have been te reduce stress on AK, give people more options (well, one) for farming tomes, and reduce the amount of people ruining people's story missions by speed-running CM/Praetorium.

It seems to have worked, but it does seem to have made all their anti-speedrun fixes on AK ultimately pointless seeing as you can now run WP in 10 minutes.

[Abyssion]

Their plan seems to have been te reduce stress on AK, give people more options (well, one) for farming tomes, and reduce the amount of people ruining people's story missions by speed-running CM/Praetorium.

It seems to have worked, but it does seem to have made all their anti-speedrun fixes on AK ultimately pointless seeing as you can now run WP in 10 minutes.

This is so stupid... just because some asian group ran in 10 min, doesnt suddenly mean now thats the "target" time of the run.
In fact that 10 min is 1% of the runs.

Stop making it out to be the new time everyone is doing because IT ISNT.

[ChickensEvil]

This is so stupid... just because some asian group ran in 10 min, doesnt suddenly mean now thats the "target" time of the run.
In fact that 10 min is 1% of the runs.

Stop making it out to be the new time everyone is doing because IT ISNT.

Agreed, I would say your normal speed run will be 20-25 minutes, and your normal AK speed runs are 25-30 minutes. If there is a way to speedrun WP in that amount of time you can bet they will change it up to slow people down... so enjoy it while you can. We have seen this happen 2x now, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen to WP at all. People just haven't been stressing that dungeon out very much so these things haven't been sorted. But 20-25 for one and 25-30 for the other seems to balance out, somewhat, on the myth tomes per hour.