Trilioh

I stopped reading about half way through the thread, but it seems people are missing the point: 25 solar energies is way too much for a single gem powder. Max gem isn't necessary? ok. Adding drops somewhere is better? sure. Etc? probably.. But still, none of that changes the point: 25 solar energies is waaay too much for a single gem powder! No one seems to dispute that, and "counter" arguments here are just "yes, but" topic diversions. The only players I can imagine buying that are new players who don't know any better, making it kind of a tourist trap. Like oh so many other things in the game that chase the new people away. But that's another topic ;)

I don't understand the reasoning of locking a bunch of unique items in a merchant you can only access, at most, once a day. To make it worse, it is the only place (as far as I know) to convert MSP stones to their higher tiers. Why? Why do I have to run between MSP and CS like that? Except I can't even do that since I'm locked out of CS after once a day there.. So let's say, for example, a player wants to buy a VT soul-shield piece with verdant stones. Since they have thousands of them; Go into MSP, check the price of the piece you need, leave and get (hopefully) what you need from vault. Now get a party and beat Cold Storage 1st boss. If they happen to do 2nd boss they may not wait for you, so you either give up on joining them and forfeit the reward, or join and wait another whole day to get access to the merchant, though the same Kaari Lord boss issue may happen again the next day. Once at the merchant, hope you have all you need to convert the currencies (solar energies? Demon spirit stones? Crystals?), because if you don't have it on you and you're not premium, you'll have to wait another whole day since you can't access vault there. Finally got what you need and got enough yellow stones. Go back to MSP, buy the piece and hope you got that good roll on it. No? better go back to Cold Storage.. oh wait, it's locked for the day… This problem applies for other stuff at that merchant, mainly, the unity stones and keys. I got a little petty here, but I think you get the point. It is just so silly, and I don't think it helps in selling resets, if that's the reason.

In case it wasn't mentioned here yet, here is the response by NC's Cyan in a reddit post in the matter: In my humble opinion, this is no justification for such a drastic move. There are reasonable ways to inform new players. I think the path was clear enough and, frankly, players who lost their patience at that point would probably not have lasted long in this game anyway. The world of BnS is huge and beautiful, these quests are the only time players visit most of it before slamming into endgame where they will be doing the exact same few things day after day after day... so what's the rush? Generally speaking, the "scorched content" policy is hurting the game a lot in my opinion. So much content being "phased out" or outright deleted. It's sad. No content is "old" for a new player right? More than everything that^ is just a poor testament to NC's decision making process. Seems like a lazy overkill "solution" and lack of foresight and creativity. That, on the bigger picture, exemplifies NC's detachment from the game and the players. Should be noted that while I quoted a specific person in NCWest, the decision was most likely made by our Korean overlords.