MalumInSe

I agree that there should be more essential items in the NPC stores. But I wouldn't put all items in the store. I feel strongly that just about every item that isn't in the store should be obtainable either through solo quests or craft. EVERYTHING, including past promotion items like Zodiac Agathions and Dragon upgrade stones. You worry that we are at the mercy of unfair player-driven market practices. I worry that we are at the mercy of both NCSoft AND price gouging players. The only way to bring true balance to the market is to put checks on both causes. But it will never happen. The profit incentive, both in-game and IRL, is too great.

Months from now, unless something unexpected happens and they aren't able to do any other events. That's the only time they reach back in bag to reuse recently held events. Doesn't happen often.

Never forget that there is a random element to enchants. You can have all of these items with 100+ LUC stat, a 10% - 30% enchant stone boost and still fail. Consider all of this a way to incrementally increase your odds. 100% home run hits all the time are not guaranteed.

They can be used on all R, R95, R99 and R110 weapons from +3 to +9. At 1200 Ncoins they are sort of expensive, which is why not that many people use them.

Stable cloak scrolls aren't as effective as you think and they are very expensive. Most normal players wouldn't be able to afford more than one or two anyway. You're better off using the Scroll: Ancient Cloak - Legendary that increase your success chance +10%.

We are going to be waiting a very loooooooooooooooooooong time for servers to stop being trash.

+Infinity. I would be ok with a means to change weapons in game, even if it meant paying for service.

Before you call me an idiot, hear me out. I know we had Red Libra not that long ago. But things have changed dramatically. More people are at home playing this game. We have a bunch of old players dropping in to play as well. It might be a good idea to have one week of Red Libra under the current server boosted Vitality settings. That lets them make changes to character to play the class they want, level them up fast, change weapons, armors and circlets as needed. And with the cloak event they can get the right cloaks for their new class. That covers 95% of everything that they will need to continue on well after the orders to stay home are lifted. (Maybe have flash sales for La Vie En Rose jewels later...although I hear new system is in the works, so not essential.) So what do you say? Can we get one week of Red Libra maybe, possibly, yes?

Around 39 here. But some people get them quickly. This one guy I know got legendary on 6 different cloaks in like 35 tries. So every 6 attempts success for him. Pisses me off. I need a Ferios cloak now, too, but I'm not going to waste money. I'll just buy a whole ferios legendary. As long as less than 18 billion adena, I come out ahead.

It's totally random luck with the Legendary Scrolls. Always has been. I went through close to 35 scrolls and never got a single Legendary cloak the last time. This time it only took me 4 scrolls to get it. Same thing applies to the augments. I went through over 12000 ncoins on Elmore hoping to get p skill crit +7.5% or better. Never got it. I stopped the second time I got P/M skill power augment.

I have a feeling it's just a matter of time before they get rid of the policy altogether.

Agree, please bring back weapon modify scrolls. There are so many other things that they can perma delete from the database.

Don't worry, Blazing Swamp is already crowded. Apparently everyone else could get in without any problems.

Sounds like the enchant rates didn't change. NCSoft doesn't realize that they have a bunch of already upset people at home. Making it harder for them to make a Legendary Cloak is the wrong path to take.

I totally agree. This is bull****!!! They did it to force people to buy the 12000 Ncoin pack of 10 Legendary Scrolls ($150 USD). If the enchant rate is the same as past Legendary Scrolls, this is a rip off. I mean the kind of rip-off where you call the authorities and demand legal reprisals type of rip-off. I'm used to NCSoft trying to social distance players from their savings, but this is total ridiculousness. Remove the 1 per account limitation. We didn't have that requirement during the past cloak events and there's no reason to have it now. Or doesn't it occur to you that you might end up having the opposite effect? People spend more when they know that they can then turn around and use the Hero coins for something. They spend less when that's not the case. Doubt me? You're about to find out how right I am.

Hmm, not sure I want them to invite more people to play, or encourage people to play longer than they already are. They've reduced mobs and mob respawn time increased to address lag. More players mean more lag and less mobs to kill. And that means for existing players with runes that we are not getting the most bang for our buck. I would gladly change my position if they give me 2000% vitality server setting and quadruple the number of mobs in places where you get Exalted quest items. They could vastly reduce mobs in in other places, like Giants Cave, Cemetery, and even SOS, where almost no one hunts. I'd also reduce mobs at DE port areas like Altar because the XP wall from 85-99 is not that big. Plus, that slows down the noobs from taking up what little space is available in ACM, BS, etc. We don't need more noobs or billions of alts chasing Atlas.

In the retail industry big sales promotions are called "events." The term was co-opted over half a century ago and is probably used in other industries to mean something as well. Here it is rather apropos, since you're getting sold something and it is a planned revenue generating campaign for NCSoft.

You don't have to wait until next Red Libra. There are already Limited/Bloody R110 weapons on Chronos that are +27, +28, +30. Not saying that is because of Restoration policy. Just saying that Red Libra may not happen again until Fall or Winter. Why put off for tomorrow what you can do today?

From a candle a mighty conflagration? Doubtful. You might PK the macro runners, but anyone near their keyboards will just smoke you in seconds. Ten or ten thousand, same result. The problem with dwarves is that the writing was on the wall the minute NCSoft decided to opt for the microtransaction model. Players now get most of their wealth and items through promotions. Combine that with de-emphasis on crafting and poor maestros were thrown out into the streets en masse. I hear several have joined brothels and work as exploited victims in the underground economy.

Agree, it is easy. A well-kitted archer can get to 105 in a matter of hours, especially if Abandon Camp is almost empty and you can run huge trains to your stacked archer for a couple of hours or so with an out of party tank. I know, because I've done it multiple times a day in order to get my +12 earring. Yes, I had other XP boosts, Dragon buff, helped some, too, I bought AC rechargers and it was during the current boosted vitality period. I levelled 13 characters to 105 over 2-3 days. I'm sure there are even faster ways to do the same. If you don't have a stacked archer, the game allows you to have 3 accounts online at the same time. That's two average equipped archers assisting each other (get your macros set up properly) and one puller. All you need is to pick the right time to go to Abandon Camp and you will level relatively fast. No, two average geared archers don't measure up to one stacked archer. But they do XP faster than one archer solo. Just make sure the tank doesn't aggro more than you can handle. Start off in a small corner where crowd control is more manageable and you don't have to worry about archers' Mulitple Arrow spray accidently pulling more mobs than you can kill. As you gain levels you can move more toward center of room and pull more mobs if AC is empty.

So the people who basically have a monopoly on the Swords have been using them to find exploits in conjunction with their other pricey gear? No, didn't see that coming. Disabling them for a month is a nice start, but I think you really need to go much further than that to ensure that the same person/clan/idiot exploiters can't get their hands on those weapons more than once a year. And the people who were caught exploiting should be perma banned. Ban them, ban their families, ban anyone that lives next to them; ban their teacher, their doctor, their priest, ban anyone and anything associated with them. Sick of these people ruining the game.

Whenever they ban one, 200 more show up within five minutes to take their place. They'd have to either hire someone whose sole job is to monitor adena seller spam 24/7, or completely cut off all forms of communication.

CRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSH!!!

Get the dragon weapon, if you can afford it.

I'm late to the party. Where is the link to the patch notes?