I respectfully agree.
The patches lately come from KR 1:1 in the West, with 2:1 (and that's being generous) the resources available to us. I will not get into the Chaos Supply Chain loot nerfs, nor the Skystealer accessories discrepancy in materials between us and KR mentioned a few months back, or many more.
I'll only present this for clarity:
• Last week, doing every possible raid quest excluding the Steelbreaker and Serpent's Den, I made 991g (mind you, Scarlet Conservatory had double loot, and the aforementioned amount includes selling all the 10/100 Gold bars from the reward chests, as well as the gold from the Weekly Challenge milestones).
• Upsurge Weapon requires 1100g from +10 to +11, with a 10% success rate.
Sooo what you're telling us, as the representatives of the game in the West, including doing Daily Challenges, we need to dump approximately a week's worth of gold, for a single try at a 10% success rate? You're gonna say we got the pity meter, pardon, the Succession System. You haven't given us any values on how much % a failure adds to it, but let's be honest, for 1100g, even if it filled up to 100% with a single failure, it still wouldn't allow us to upgrade to a respectable stage, before you release a new tier to that same piece of gear.
I sincerely hope you can take this into consideration.