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PvP or F5, otherwise make a ton of alts and do the daily challenge everyday and save up slowly over time. If you don't like to play alts, then tough luck there's no other source. Almost forgot, you can try the Trial Arena in Mushin's Tower. It's not much and once per character for each season.

Rather than all these low effort cash and grabs, why not add more cosmetic options at a reasonable cost?

This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. 99% of the game is at a point where any exp you gained by farming that dungeon at a low level is irrelevant. But, even so, let's say you're Lv20 where the xp makes a temporary difference, everything except your skills is gated behind quest lines. The inconvenience of not having a 2nd chance to complete a limited time, event daily quest far outweighs some petty Lv20 reaching Lv22 too fast and having 0.2% more xp toward HM17 a month from now.

What dungeon does not have a dynamic quest? The only time a reward entitles a lock is if it's something that needs a moderated supply. I.e. event currency, which the dungeon itself does not provide.

And why is it necessary or useful to lock the event dungeon in the 1st place?

Where does it say coalitions aren't allowed? Not that I'm for it, I've only done Shackled Isles once, a few days after it came out, then never again. But, looking at how the game is run, I wouldn't expect much in terms of enforcing a No Teaming Policy.

Made a post before since it took two weeks to fix last time. Not sure if it's lack of feedback or just really took over a week to fix, but again we can't quickly search for items the normal way we used to. The only way that works is to use exact search for most items, but items with long names or special characters have to be searched by category and found by going through pages of every item in that category. Aside from that, aren't we overdo for a marketplace cap increase? Listing a maximum of 15 items at this point of the game is just so low, it's ridiculous. At the very least, double it to 30 for premium and 15-20 for F2P.

If it's your wife, then you could just buy it on her account instead of gifting in-game. As for giveaways, you could buy game keys for NC Coin instead of gifting 30 day premium memberships.

On the contrary, maybe they realized the top PvPer's have no reason to spend money on this game as they can do it with any gear. Then for Battlegrounds and 6s, whales will spend to dominate no matter what really, so again no reason to put effort into changing it. They've probably paid someone to do the math and decided it's worth aiming at the people who spend hundreds or thousands(The people doing 500+ keys/RNG boxes on day 1 and still spending more later) rather than trying to cater to majority of players spending $10-50 a month, because many will still do at least that much.

I agree with Grimoir here, as a "free to play" game, cosmetics, services and conveniences should be the primary source of income. While NCSoft hasn't been fair in following their own principles of free to play, it's still not something we should expect or feel entitled to be free. The race change already let's you change appearance as well, that's probably why race changing is more expensive. As for the name change, that's a separate service entirely, I don't see any issue with the 3 being as they are now. I agree to an extent with the players trying to make Blade & Soul into something it's not with certain things they ask for, but if you're referring to the Pay for Convenience aspect that puts a massive gap between the F2P and Paying players, then I disagree there.

If I had Gilded Obsidians and all my badges I still wouldn't buy that ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤. I'd save and wait for something useful to be added to the game or if they actually do adjust the price, then maybe I'd buy them then. I haven't done much Moon Refuge, but I assumed the chance of getting a salvageable gem was too low to bother.

You can't compare powders to Blackstones, they're easily obtained through several dungeons and reward chests, even newer players get an abundance until they start working on their talisman, but by that point, they're not really new players anymore. So, the 3 solar energy cost is obsolete because there's a far better source to get them. But gem powders on the other hand, only come from the merchant, and honestly, how often do you see him and how often will he even sell powders? That aside, what newbie who hasn't played long enough to get extra blackstone fragments be doing trying to upgrade the Obsidian Gem so high? Like you said though, energies come from the daily challenge and in my opinion, that's why they can't be a main source for powders, only a supplement because... alts. But, even then, they need a better value to actually be worth buying. Right now, they may as well have not even added them because so few will find it worth buying them currently. To me and literally every single person I know, the addition of the Hongmoon Gem Powders to the Dragon Express has mad absolutely 0 impact. It's useless.

That concept is irrelevant, even as an up and coming player, if someone has done the Daily Challenge enough to make a Hexa and they're worried about buying Blackstones with Solar Energy then there is something wrong with them. Why even bring up something so useless? The people who would have this issue aren't aware of much in the game to really be bothered. "It is overpriced but still a source of Hongmoon Gem Powder" "Keep in mind you can also buy it from Merchant of Wonders, 5 Powder for 25 gold which is still kind of high IMO but a bit better." "players need to also keep in mind upgrading your gems is a one time thing so it should be a bit costly" You're literally saying exactly what no one will agree with except maybe that white knight, but I think even he disagreed on this one. Who said they shouldn't be a bit costly? You say don't take anything you say out of context, I really don't get what you're trying to say then. If you agree it's an unusable source, what's your point, just wait until they reduce the price, if they do at all?

Well dam, I thought this would get at least some attention lol.

Like one of the NCSoft reps said, don't forget you also get 10 Moonrise Orbs from each pouch. Yes, it's RNG, just like trove or the previous Starcaller boxes, but at least you get a guaranteed currency to buy something no matter what. With 1 pouch for 139 HM/NC Coin, you can buy a bundle of 10 Moonstone Crystals, 10 Elysian Crystals, 100 Soulstone Crystals or 50 Sacred Crystals, if you need Sacred Vials, you can get one from every 6 pouches, and this is in addition to what you get from the pouches themselves. 834 coins for a Sacred Vial + 6 pouches, if you look at it that way, it really isn't so bad. Still RNG of course, but that Sacred Vial makes a good, steady value, then the RNG has to make up for not even half the cost.

Taking from a few suggestions I've seen others pose, I'd like to suggest adding Cosmetic Vouchers, Idle Pose Vouchers and even new Emote Vouchers. Then further being able to have more control over the poses and stances we use. Looking at the at the login screen, I'd love to have my Warden's login animation as a default standing or idle pose where he's leaning on his sword with it resting on the ground. Then as for Emote Vouchers, I've seen the Charm Pellet go for 500g+ it would be a great selling item. I don't think it would be too difficult to implement different poses, many are already in-game, but only during character creation. Many MMO's have appearance changes as a paid service, but then minor things such as facial hair, eye colors, and hair styles/colors are normally free to change or cost a small fee. But, I know this is Blade & Soul, so I won't get ahead of myself. Could we get an appearance change ticket or even an in-game NPC stylist(that costs HM or NC Coin) that let's us change Facial Marks, Hairdo, and Ears and Tail? There are many players constantly changing outfits, the more accessible the price is then more frequently people would pay for change, even just to match different costumes on different days. Changeable features would include: Hairdo Hair Type Hair Color Ears and Tail (Lyn Only) Facial Marks Eye Brow Type Facial Hair (Male only) Eyelashes (Female only) Eyebrow and Facial Hair Color Cosmetics Lips Facial Decorations

It's not fine just because there's "a" source, it's so slow it's nearly irrelevant. If you look at 1 Gem Powder per character every 6 days as a good source of gold income then congrats I guess. The post is not about making an easy 13 gold a week through Solar Energies, I'm asking for a way to reliably progress our gems to maxed as a regular, decent player that doesn't require using trove or RNG boxes. And by your wording "Just having them in there has a chance of reducing gold cost" you don't have much marketing insight, there is no "chance" in price changes, if the supply increases, the price decreases, it's simple, not random. But the supply increase, 1 potential powder a week per character for the average player I'd guess would effect the price as much as the F10 special does when we can get 5 powders for 18 HM Coin each. People will probably be buying the Pentagonal Obsidians and badges instead. At best, I would say maybe it can slowly drop the price a bit because the hundreds of altoholics selling there 10 Gem Powders once a week instead of using the Solar Energies on anything else. Who knows, hopefully I'm wrong and the price tanks to a reasonable amount because it actually supplies more powders than I realize. Thank you, appreciate the reply. Hopefully he appears and sells them enough to make a difference.

There were more channels there when I checked last week. Probably just depends on how many people are there.

What's the bug?

I doubt they care about the bickering. Their only interest should be on the side arguing that "It's not p2w" because those are the ones who aren't bothered by the company's tactics enough to deter them from spending on the game. As long as the ones who do agree are putting enough money in their pockets, then anything else is irrelevant. Anyway, I only skimmed through some of the comments so sorry if it was already dressed. Rather than arguing about what p2w is or isn't, let's compare the differences between what you get when you spend on Warframe vs what you get when you spend on Blade & Soul. I.e. Warframe you spend $50 to get a Warframe the day it comes out and get some Forma/Potatoes or you spend $400 on Platinum to get a perfectly rolled riven mod, or even $2,000 to get a few perfect riven mods. Then compare that to spending $50 on Blade & Soul for a Mastery & Duelist Bundle, or $400 to max your soul, or $2,000 to max your soul/heart and get your Pet/Talisman pretty high up and stage 10 or awaken your accessories. And also note the different kinds of progression each game has and what it takes to clear different content. How would a F2P player catch up or compete in Warframe and B&S?

I'm not saying it's really important to have those Dyads. I kind of say the opposite when I mention that they're one of the least cost-effective things to upgrade. But my point is, rather than saying "Don't bother maxing" or "You don't need max to run anything" that you should be able to achieve maxed out pieces by playing the game. Since the requirements for some parts are either impossible or just unreasonable, I'd much rather repeatedly put the attention on NCSoft than fault players for wanting to strive to reach end-game gear. Yes, it is a cash and grab, even if they make it accessible, those few whales will still spend hundreds, and some actually even thousands on this game to get ahead first. I don't care about being first, I'm just requesting a more reasonable pacing to actually obtain Dyads as a mid-tier player. Closed mouths don't get fed, so rather than accepting it, I'd keep suggesting what I'd think would improve the game for as long as I play. And to anyone putting in the effort to maintain playing 11 characters, you don't think all that time and gameplay has earned them a single Dyad Gem after nearly 2 years? I can agree that there should be a better balance, so people who prefer playing a single character aren't missing out so much compared to people who play alts. But, leveling up and even minimally gearing multiple characters, in my opinion, does entitle someone to getting more. They're putting in the extra work to play more characters, and require more depending on how geared they want their alts to be.

Do we need top of the line gear? Saying you don't need the best gear, so it's fine if it's unfair is a poor excuse. Just because you're comfortable settling for less, doesn't mean other players are. It's no one's place to tell another to stop and think "I don't need the best gear" in a progression game. The whole focus is upgrading your gear and getting stronger. True, theory crafting saying it'll take 17 years at the rate should be taken with a grain of salt, but it still means something. People who want to play the game to get ahead hit a complete wall where they can't play the game to obtain something, and that is an issue. You can argue that you don't have to swipe to do this, plenty of people can save up gold to buy RNG boxes and 20 trove keys a day when those are around. But this is just a gamble at the chance to win end-game gems, but that is no longer playing to progress at that point. It's forcing players to use the cash shop and gamble because it's unobtainable by any fair means through normal playing, and it is not guaranteed. While gems are one of the least cost-effective things players should invest in, maybe you should consider that the way they work is just unfair, instead of trying to impose your opinion on others that they should not aim for them. I'd argue that our staff needs to push harder to get changes made. It should be more like an end-game grind where even if it does take months to get, it is at least something you can play and grind to earn, rather than having to wait for trove and RNG boxes and gambling your gold and/or real life money. Saying that 1 Dyad costs more than a Sealed True Cosmic Soul sounds kind of funny.

I agree to this. Being able to disable it is not good enough. I don't care to hear from the handful of people here saying "I disabled mine" that doesn't help me.

We needed a way to obtain Hongmoon Gem Powders in-game, and thankfully NCSoft answered by giving us the option to get them from the Dragon Express. However, the exchange rate is 25 Solar Energies for one powder, can a staff member answer if that's intended or will there be an adjustment or another way to obtain Gem Powders at a more reasonable rate? I am not saying it should be a handout or even remotely fast to obtain Gilded/Dyad gems, but that amount is insanely high, far beyond what can be considered any reasonable end-game grind. Someone on Reddit took the time to do the math and find out how long it'd take to get the powders needed for transmuting up to a Dyad and these are their results: "27 heptas to 9 octas = 9*8 = 72 powders 9 octas to 3 gilded triangles = 3*32 = 96 powders 3 gilded triangles to 1 gilded square = 128 powders So this twice, plus 512 powders to combine both squares into a dyad, is 1104 powders, or 27600 solar energy. Assuming 4 solars per day: 6900 days (roughly 19 years) Assuming 4.5 solars per day: 6134 days (roughly 17 years)" Now of course, buying the Gem Powders would greatly speed up the process, but needing 1104 powders for one Dyad at the current market price, I don't think it's at all a reasonable amount for the mid-tier players working toward end-game. I'd suggest reducing the price to 8 Solar Energy for 1 powder, this is still 2 days for 1 powder, per character. It's not freebie, just a much more reasonable amount for an end-game grind to earn our gems over time. At this rate, it would still take over 5 years to save up the gem powders needed from Solar Energies alone. So, it's not like this change would severely impact the amount of gem powders we're getting, causing prices to plummet to 2 gold, making the world split in 2, and everyone to have a Dyad 2 months. I'd still prefer another source for the powders even if the price was 8 Solar Energies. I mean we're getting new gems soon, this is like another scheme to make people trove since that's the only good way to get the best gems currently. Waiting for cost reductions and some gem powder reimbursement doesn't justify this either.

It sometimes takes like 12 hours for the 1st time you purchase NCoin.