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So, as a lvl 118+ who already owns a B. Valakas... What exactly am I celebrating here?

Lv.120 PvE Yul here with about 25 - 30k $ gear I absolutely love how mobs do more dmg with this update, watching VoS mobs slaughter me in 5-6 hits was finally a push for me to invest in defensive gear. After a first few "cheap" defensive items I have run out of reasonable options. Guess what? It's not enough. All the possible upgrades are dollar heavy, that I refuse to pay to get tankier. I took one step back to see things in a different perspective: Do I really want to spend 1.5k $ on forgotten defense skills? How would I justify spending about a grand to swap my +7 blue artifacts to +10? Tersi lvl.7 x 6 for 500 to 700$? God Jewels for a couple grand each? They seem fairly tanky. Glad I only need 5! Time to wake up, these numbers are what a lot of people would call a monthly salary! How did we end up here? Is that really the price NCSoft wants us to pay in order to keep playing the game we have been playing for years and we have supported with our monthly subscriptions / destiny pack regular transactions and more? Like many mentions here above my post, the problem is not the mob difficulty, they are designed to be balanced by devs based on the achievable gear in the game, the problem is what you "charge us" for said gear. If you don't see my point @Arctic just take a quick look at the Night Market Coin sale that was announced earlier today. There's a whole thread for that, I won't list the ridiculous deals it contains.

This NightMarketCoin pricing is absolutely disgusting to the point that some items are actually cheaper to be bought via the store. What sort of scam is that? GM's take a look and push this back to devs, you are meant to represent our thoughts from forum, right? Atleast that's what you keep saying in tickets I log. This is unacceptable. Fix it!

I'm curious if @Juji or any mods would pick this up and try to work out a solution with their user who is clearly willing to cooperate and wants to "pay". Banks are terrible to deal with nowadays, it's all robots who you speak to, whose AI is just not there yet. I don't believe this can be resolved on that front. I'm curious to see if NCSoft is willing to find a solution. I just put myself in Wallabi's shoes (provided what he's saying is true) Would be reassuring to know that NCSoft actually cares for their user-base and wouldn't just blindly follow policies that don't actually apply 100% of the time.

This does sound like the NCWest approach

Who mentioned selling or buying? It's completely out of the scope of my original post.

It's why I said "rare items". +10 Cloaks are all around, rarity begins at +15 - +20

When it comes to fairly rare items, trading is not an option anymore. You can setup shout macros on 6 toons a day without getting one single message. Market is also dead. It moved to RMT sites.

Having burnt 1000 of your cloak augment stones on ONE specific cloak and not getting the augment I was hoping for - I am deeply disgusted in the direction this game is moving forward to. I am fairly sure the success rate of the artifact enchanting will be similarly nerfed (again!) without any communication towards us, the playerbase. This is how you sell more of your products instead of coming up with more creative ways, game contents that we wouldn't mind paying for. Shame on you! This games deserves to close down for good.

So you're saying the anti-BOT is not against those that are doing 2 spot IoS with pets? Asking for a friend...

Antharas: "Orfen, (adopted) son of Baium, I now baptize you in the name of Eva, Kain and the holy Pa'agrio"

As one of those "full geared" players I'm asking you not to force me to farm solo Neutral Zone, nerf the adena or the very least add same adena/mob to ketra/varka/spores so I can solo those instead!

@Juji @Hime This would be really useful to know.

Shameful really. How do you only realise what is going on after 8 hours or so? This is either lack of interest or lack of management. Are we not paying enough?

Glad to see this pissed you off farmer. Wishing all the best,

Well done on removing Greedy Chests! Lag or no lag it was nothing more than RMT farm as average players had no real chance on finding them due to the camera networks around.

Check the time interval the announcement says, and leave out the perspective of what's being fair and what isn't. And don't waste your time responding unless you have the answer to my question.

What? You might have mixed up quotes, I'm not complaining at all. Just asked a question. I do recognize however that Degus above had a valid point

Fair play. For a player that have no use of the 30 day items this is not a compensation.

On the contrary... I wouldn't mind 4 ( ) as I'm still using the 30 day B. Valakas each month.

Additional compensation will be added on Friday 4/23 for players who had purchased a Prestige Pack or Destiny Pack from 3/8 until 4/20 (eligible only before maintenance notice). Rare Accessory Pack (30-day) [Non-tradable] How would this play out on an account that purchased 2x Destiny and 2x Prestige pack during the time interval you stated?

I'm fed up with your server restarts in the middle of the night! Burning my destiny and prestige pack along with time with these server exp settings... The very least you can do is give us a heads-up so maybe I consider setting up an alarm. Spend some real money on your hardware. Are we not paying enough to cover that?!

I'd be down for a prestige pack for each extra client system too. It would fix many issues, including overcrowded low lvl areas, cameras, price altering giran shops

I can also confirm that this is accurate apart from Stage 2 & 3 Talismans. Loving the hidden marketing attempt on this topic. Sure, try it next week for "fixed" odds. I for one will definitely not test more chests unless there is an official statement to say "Ok, we messed up, it's fixed now"

You guys are a joke!