Subtle changes added to legend patch?

Seems like a huge grind, unless they removed the ~10 seconds per ore animation time.

edit: as in reaching level 10 38 times, making ~87400 jewels/plates/powders in the process. 874 slots if you kept them. 10 days of doing nothing but forging 24-hours a day, consuming 300 of those Super Moos each day.

Edit: I tried describing it but I think coming from my source might be better.

I'm curious to know what numbers you're using and how you came upon them, using your number of Level 10's (38) you would have accumulated 97090 Willpower, that is 3494 more than you'd need from Level 0 Willpower to 100. You'd only need 36 and a Level 9 if you started from scratch with 0. If KMS and GMST is any indication, a Level 10 would only take 582 plate/jewel/powder syntheses, times 37 for simplicity and that's 21534 products created from 0 to 100 Willpower. This doesn't include the 5XX that can be achieved from the daily Willpower grind.

I'm sure we're not working with the assumption of 0 Willpower, but if it's any indication, I'm 15 - 19 days away from maxed Willpower under our current system and my easy mining regiment (not to level 10). If this new system comes out with market available ores I could finish on that day or whenever I pleased without great impact on the wallet or time schedule.

Source Edit: I didn't even throw in maths for Double EXP from Diligence or otherwise.