The current understanding is that you need 10 lumps (total) to upgrade the purple necklace to gold. A "BestInSlot" item.

This, obviously, has upset people looking at the live stats.
- It costs a total of 25,000 write to max the item, seen as the item costs 2,500 individually
- If we are only looking at writ per delving, doing t10 (50 writ) thats 500 delvings to be done to get all the items
- Assuming there is also a 1% drop chance, maybe more like 250 t10 delvings
- A little less when we account for deeds, decon drops
- At 10 delvings a day, thats 25-50 days of delvings

Correct me if my maths is wrong - sorry

However, the new delving update added some spice to the calculation.
- New weekly quests giving a total of 500 writ
- New t12 gives 60, not 50 (same difficulty assumed)
- There is new 3man delvings in school + libary with a new chest

How much are these new (or changes to old droprates) going to change how quickly we can aquire the necklace?

Will there be an alternative route for people who hate delvings?

Anything I'm wrong or missing here?

The game is becoming increasing alt-un-friendly. Is this just another layer to this?