are you maybe responding to the wrong thread/post? Anyways ...new or old (and I 'm old) when you reach a certain point each upgrade costs half a trillion as you get into endgame. The recent adena burn event helped alot, lots of people got their top rubies/rcats cheap. The only difference is if you're new, into your early 110s and want to move from open field into instances to begin farming you need to drop a hefty investment , there's so many "systems" in the game you need to upgrade (Brooch & Jewels, Bracelet & talismans, Seed Bracelet & Agathions, Cloak, Artifacts, Shirt, Headgear, Jewels, Armor, Weapon,, Forgotten Skills and I won't even touch Tomes and Collections) that if you do the math, even "entry" level stuff by todays standards it's way past a trillion. I mean you can't go to ios with bexalted, lvl 3 jewels from quests and a +12 krishna and farm. You 'll probably die, and if you don't your killspeed will be so low you 'll barely "farm" 100mil.