I think visions addition is overall the best thing that happened in 8.3.
However the difficulty and reward curve stops at 5 masks and with further cloak upgrades the difficulty is lowevering (as it should, we are getting more powerful legendary after all) so 5 masks run is currently not overly hard but still challenging.
Would be cool to add another mask(s) ideally granting another +5ilvl or at least some cosmetic reward, or maybe allows weapons to drop or guaranteed corruption. This way the content will continue to scale and will be fun to play even with further cloak/gear improvements
Obviously an M+ parallel can be drawn here and I agree it’s not a fresh idea itself - just a note that this type of content is pretty good and could use some infinite scaling as well
While the idea is cool don’t expect any new reward to be implemented in 8.3
At best they could maybe try to make an harder mode increasing the rate at which you get the cosmetic rewards or more momento but no mount/title ect, the devs are working on the shadowland alpha right now
Personally I don’t mind, but I don’t think having masks drop infinitely scaling ilvl gear is a good idea xD
I wanted it to be 10 masks for 485 because each mask adds an affix and 25% hp and damage.
That’s about 250% more damage and hp, and 10 affixes that support eachother in making things hard and should be arguably as difficult as N’zoth mythic if not way harder.
So an 11th mask and above should probably give cosmetic or just be there for bragging rights, kinda like proving grounds
I do agree that gear iLvl should stop scaling at some point but I did mention something like cosmetic (e.g. rank 4 essences) could be added or side improvements to drop (socket/corruption) like also mentioned in this thread
8.3 is still months to go, so some additions could be done I think
5 masked at 460 ilvl 2 weeks ago, missed it the week before by a hair at rank 11, others of almost all ranged specs, mage included, have done the same. Friend of mine runs 5 masks as fire with lucid major, think he’s 463 atm.
Id love to see it get harder, but honestly I think its more that it didn’t need to get so easy so fast. Very quickly went from using everything at my disposal to barely needing an orb because of how gift of the titans works, as well as additive cloak resistance.