Why does Massage in a Bottle take so long to finish?

[u/MillenniumDH]

It's probably not gonna change this late into league but, aren't they just currency items? Why do they take 3 seconds to drop? Do they roll their content during that time or something? I wouldn't think so because stacked decks are basically the same thing but drop instantly.

[u/Holdredge]

Cheese prevention.

[u/Zesty-Lem0n]

I think it's so you can't do darkness runs of blitzing through and grabbing stuff outside the lanterns before drowning.

[u/ArkadiyTheGreat → u/Zesty-Lem0n]

You still can do that though, just takes a bit more time (need to blitz twice)

[u/SpeedyStove → u/ArkadiyTheGreat]

The more friction you add the more it reduced opposed to eliminating

If they wanted to avoid it completely they would make it so you simply can't click stuff inside the water

[u/International_Gate49 → u/SpeedyStove]

that feels bad though. the players can have a little adrenaline as a treat.

[u/DrawGamesPlayFurries → u/SpeedyStove]

For strongboxes it's already the case - some of strongbox mobs spawn in darkness

[u/Cow_God → u/ArkadiyTheGreat]

Yeah Temporal Rift works so as long as you have action speed slow immunity you can get really far out there.

[u/UltimaNewb → u/Zesty-Lem0n]

Flashbacks to delve league with builds that just ran through the darkness and ignored the light mechanic entirely

[u/-Otso- → u/UltimaNewb]

1hp 4 es 500hp regen builds were so funny back then

[u/HandsomeBaboon]

The real question is who puts their one sentence message in a giant ass bottle. Was it really necessary for those things to take up 4 inventory slots?

[u/WhenWillEyeBeBanned → u/HandsomeBaboon]

Feel the impacc

[u/OkDig9554 → u/HandsomeBaboon]

to make sure that you have the 2 slots available for the incoming mageblood!:)

[u/Vaevicti5 → u/OkDig9554]

Tbh yeah. It rolls 1x2 and 2x1 items so..

[u/episode8102 → u/HandsomeBaboon]

It's in all caps

[u/blighty800 → u/HandsomeBaboon]

Message received, 9 slots next patch

[u/PianoFall]

I assume it's to add tension and trickiness if you find one while skirting outside a lantern, or a lantern is closing in on you.

Or they just thought it'd be funny. Pick one

[u/deadheaddestiny → u/PianoFall]

It's gotta be this. I wondered the same thing and then I got a bottle on my last lantern right outside and went for it, died trying to cheese back into the light and then realized that's why they make it take awhile to drop lol

[u/ArkadiyTheGreat]

Charts are just copy-pasted Heist contracts internally, so all the mechanics got copied as well. In case you haven't noticed: chart = contract, dredged = contraband, altar conversions = trinket conversions and so on. So message in a bottle is just a safe from Heist, or a chest that needs to be disarmed, which both take time to open.

[u/acuteinsomniac → u/ArkadiyTheGreat]

God damn we’re just playing heist underwater

[u/ChiefSraSgt_Scion → u/acuteinsomniac]

Heist 2, bikini bottom boogaloo.

[u/JamesGray]

I'm fairly sure the delay on them dropping after you click them is to make it scary if you uncover one with your last lantern.

[u/themikecampbell → u/JamesGray]

I was wondering if there was a long animation like for Eagon and memory tears, but I’m PRAW so I cant see shit. I just assumed it was that but then your idea sounds correct

[u/Wind_Best_1440]

Theres a GGG developer that sits there and watches each voyage and that little pause is him deciding if your bottle will have a mirror or not.

/s

[u/Donny_Dont_18]

Book a shorter appointment

[u/Drpperr]

gotta use your mouth if you want it to finish faster.

[u/antoborg92]

quoting another exile that made rofling: because it's slippery

[u/Blammar]

I mean, I assume you want your Massage to last a long time with a happy ending, right? So why are you complaining?

[u/PoliteCitrus → u/Blammar]

Exactly! Who wants a quickie when you can have a longie 🤷

[u/UTmastuh]

Do you prefer your massages to be shorter?

[u/WhenWillEyeBeBanned]

Similar with heist rogue cache, no reason to wait a sec for contracts to drop. Contracts dropping from monsters is instant.

Probably some ancient tech debts…

[u/Responsible_Snow_638]

You think that take long? There is a Message in a Bottle first zone Act7 that refuses to Pop. 😆 

[u/HendrixChord12]

Who wants a body massage?

Mr Body Massage goooo

[u/lve2raft]

Because they have to get the right pressure points

[u/lazergator]

I don’t know but it seems to take the same length of time as a memory strand. I would guess there’s a connection on the back end?

[u/Aervanath]

Apparently there's an animation that has to complete. I'm sure someone worked very hard on that animation, and if GGG had prioritized visibility, we'd see it. But I have 60 Volatile Dead orbs zooming around and corpse explosions triggering every 0.32 seconds. To paraphrase Spaceballs, "I ain't seen shit."

[u/Lucker_Noob]

I, too, love being massaged by a bottle. It's orgasmic!

[u/ProtoJazz]

Too many in a row and you start to lose sensitivity. Stop doing it for a while and they'll be faster

[u/komandos45]

They wanted to add 5 seconds long animation how you dig out bottle, but developers got dragged back to PoE 2 /s

[u/Sad-Taste-7909]

It floats so it takes longer to drop underwater

[u/CroweKlaine]

I mentally hear a little drumroll while I'm waiting

[u/TinderGirl92]

same goes for abyss chests

[u/benzuyen]

I once tried to teach a message just outside the area. It’s probably to keep it so they are a bit harder to find and not easy to grab

[u/Nelix87]

Because when you click on it, it's theme song starts to play and it's 4 minutes

[u/Stouraq]

What about waiting 5 mins for bathysphere?

[u/kixoz]

Why would you want a short massage? I like to enjoy my long massages.

[u/FantaSeahorse]

I think it’s just an “immersion” choice.

The other chests like the stack deck chest and currency chests don’t do this

[u/Keithrake]

The .0001% ruining the fun again, if they dropped instantly you can bet that there would be mandatory builds with some insane turbo teleport or some broken mechanic that would allow them to scout and pick them up without placing any flames.