I had unsubbed from VIP a while ago and have been holding out for this list to understand if i'd come back in.
Thoughts as a player that plays a bunch of alts, runs r1 to level and doesn't really enjoy above r6 (that's the right challenge/fun top level for me personally).
1st month: Great, perfect bite sized intro
2nd: Fine, though not all are equal. 300 sent xp is a single item. Raid bypass, omnispell and glamering are the likely picks for anyone
3rd: Fine for people like me that have way too many characters, not useful for many
4th: Completely useless. Platinum is plentiful and people rarely have items break already
5th: Less appealing now
6th: fine, cosmetics are good
7th: also fine, nice touch with the collectible nodes
8th: Good reward here, solid milestone
9th: This is absolutely meaningless. There is a lack of faith in the loot tables and drop rates already and given how huge the range of luck can be person to person, there is no way of knowing if this is actually 'on' for anyone.
10th: Not worth anything by this point, the bag needs to be more exciting
11th: Decent, but should remain as a permanent thing
12th: great - month 10 and 11 are effectively nothing while you wait for this
Happy if that feedback is read and proves useful.
As for actual questions on the VIP program:
Month 9 is a loot boost, but it doesn't specify that it remains - should we assume that the 1% is only for the single Month of VIP?
Suggested changes:
Make the VIP Bag of Many Things more enticing. (throw in an option for shards - equivalent to the cost of a raid timer?)
Replace durability ward with something else (1% extra bonus per member in party for standard 2%? - really get people wanting to sub for more than 3 months)
Depending on answer to month 9's question, you may need to make the % boost a lot higher for anyone to notice that it exists
Generalised questions:
Is there confidence that the generalised loot expectations on newer content (roughly 1/3 chance on Elite of named loot) is correct?
Do the treasure hunter boosts & weekends (loot level) increase the chance of mythic/reaper, or does it only interact with lootgen affixes and suffixes?
Final note - I had been waiting 9 months or so to decide on resubbing (though i did resub for hardcore).
After seeing this... I am not sold. And I need the extra character slots and XP that VIP gives, so i'm already incentivised for the base rewards...