As i said, i know how rng works, i have coded quite a lot Randon Number Generators using different types to create seeds.
As i said befor maintenacne on june 5th every run 1-2 fragments from first to bosses, after maintenance 0-1 fragment from first 2 bosses.
More than twice as much runs for farming the neck for my alt than i neede for my main. Thats even hard to explain with NC-Soft RNG and statitical nearly impossible without lowering the droprate ;)
Im not talking about 2,3,4 runs, im talking about a over 200 runs and the 3 fragments from daily quest didnt change much.
Let me quote something:
Source: https://www.bladeandsoul.com/en/news/silverfrost-weapon-cost-changes/
Well they introduced Moonstone Crystals which are still RNG drop from the chests and at least for me the most least ressource. Befor they introduced the crystals you could farm moonstones in SSP 24/7. If you didnt like PVP / SSP you could farm Naksun who could drop 1, 10 and even 100 stacks.
With the introduction of the crystals they removed moonstones from Naksun and he now can only drop 1 or max 10 crystals.
Removing Moonstones from Naksun isolated people who dont like PVP from any moonstone source.
Well ok Naksun is lvl 45/50 content, but anyway, there are enough places where they could have added an alternative moonstone source for PVE player.
They also removed Moonstones from SSP during the week, Now you can farm them only Sat / Sun from 1 PM to 1 AM.
Therefore they introduced moonstones in the BG- Chests what resultet in an price twice as high as befor the patch.
Nowadays moonstones cost 2-3times more than befor this patch.
It wouldnt be much of a problem, when you wouldnt need moonstones for crafting (Premium) Transformation Stones or if there would be an untradeable version you could craft with crystals.
What about all those Transformation and Premium Transformation Stones you can only craft with Moonstones and not with crystals?
Here is the next problem, People who mostly play PVP are running out of Keys to open the chests while most PVE players threw them away or have a stack of a few k in their vault. Overall most changes resulted in higher prices while gold income continusly where decreased.
There is nothing to say against this, on the contraryit was nessesary and importent so people can at least catch up a tiny bit. Anyway, would have been nice for old players who already spend tons of mats / oils / Pet pouches when you could have salvage the items and got a few mats in return.
Yeah they tried, but anyway most of us had a big loss. Buying an item for 20-25 gold and getting 20 gold in return is a quite bad trade. I lost 200-300 gold and a friend even lost over 1k gold.
Well we can now diskus where Pay to progress ends and where P2W begins. In my opinnion P2W sbeginns when you cant get your stuff in a reasonable amount of time and since they always add upgrades on a regular base you are not realy able to catch up. So this is, at least in my opinion, P2W.
Also you have overlooked a tiny but importent detail
So Assessoirs / Weaponmats in trove, or the currently buyable unity stones are just cosmetics, they dont give power or increas stats permanent?
Im GC9 full TT, but i could do TT (at least boss 1 and 2) even with my aransu 3 gunner which have assessoiurs max at stage 3 since i can hold up to 500-600k, i maybe should try to find a group, would be a nice challange ;)
Dont get me wrong, i dont want things for free. I left BnS in Dec. 2018 and came back at the awakening patch. It took me 8 weekends hardcore MSP farming to get from full VT to full TT gear including prophecy neck and the new glove both at awakening 3. So im not to lazy to farm. Meanwhile my alt also have TT Ring stage 9, TT Earring, prophecy neck and new glove stage 10 and went from aransu 3 to aransu 6 in the last 3 weeks. Ok my main now is out of mats, but anyway it was worth it.
I also dont care what they sell in F10, according to me, they could sell even Raid-weapons / assessoirs in F10, but at least give us the opportunity to farm our stuff in a reasonable amount of time especialy Oils and pet pouches ;)
And we will need a hell of a lot more oils in future when we get the ancient weapon level.