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Many people that I know with upgraded weapons had reverted their weapons back to TB 9 in anticipation to these changes and come patch day, they were able to go straight to IA 6. The amount of hearts they've saved will likely allow them to go straight to IA 9 whenever that gets released. I think it's rather unfair to allow these reverts to happen, allow people the opportunity to have this advantage for a week and then take it away from everyone else who may not have been able to get there. At this point, its better to leave it in as it is. But hey its NCSoft ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I sincerely hope this decision is reversed to an extent @Hime. Endgame players will end up being fine but new players and mid-game players are going to be so hard hit by this. At the very least put forward adding a 5/5/10g reward for completing 3/5/7 DC so that people are able to maintain some sort of gold income. It is already so overwhelming to get started in this game. Making these changes absolutely puts no incentive/motivation for new players and mid-game players to continue playing. The lower tier dungeons are not run by older players and if they are, theyre done solo. New players mostly cannot solo them and the playerbase doesnt run them cutting people off from a large portion of dungeons and whatever small amount of gold they'd receive from it. Does NCSoft really not care about maintaining it's product anymore? There's so much that can be done to improve the game for players and increase profits for NCSoft that would not require much effort, why is it that NCSoft does not want to even look into this? At the very least if they have no clue as to what to do (which I suspect is very much the case), come to the playerbase for suggestions. There people out here who are able to think critically and objectively and give suggestions that wouldnt hurt the bottomline.

What exactly is the point to us purchasing anything if they're just going to screw us every time with something else? What's next? Trove next month won't have any free keys for premiums either? What exactly are they losing here giving paying customers free keys a day? Who is in charge of monetization at this game? This idea that this will push more people into spending is an absolute joke and wishful thinking. Every negative change we get is always attached with this idea that somehow this will make NCSoft more money and it never does, earnings are always dropping. Wonder why that is (hint: performance isn't the only reason). How about this for a suggestion to pass along @Hime: hire someone who actually knows how to monetize the game. Btw treasure draw has a gilded triangle chest instead of square like it's supposed to be in the rank1 chest. Good joke.

Theyre able to bypass f2 key check (maybe even market). Locking xml would most likely hold them off for a few days until they figure out how to unlock the files. At this point, I assume the only way to fix this situation would be moving everything server side. And as I said previously, there are edits and mods that make the game playable aka be able to play it. I know people who literally cannot raid due to FPS issues without using animation removals etc. Completely locking people out from these options will also negatively impact the health of the game.

But they've shown in the past that they can work around the XML with the GCD edit (just not as many people realized what was going on back then). I do agree that this is a pretty critical situation. They should just incorporate the qol edits into their client. If we're able to do it on our own, then why cant they just take the initiative and adopt it directly for everyone?

The xml edits we're seeing right now were done without BnSBuddy. Russia banned BnSBuddy and they just made another program to replace it and xml edits are still going on. What will likely happen is the same as when the GCD xml edit was happening: removing the possibility of using these edits. There are xml edits and mods out there that make the game playable for majority of people (see: windwalk effect removal for BG crashing, animation removal for FPS in raids etc). If NCSoft were to ban everyone using qol xml edits, you'd lose the majority of your playerbase as well as a huge chunk of paying customers. I doubt that'll happen. What's more concerning is that theyre able to change other people's F2, it means all the web-based stuff could be compromised.

You said you were lowering the HP of bosses and increasing player defenses. Where is that change exactly? What a shocker that nothing is going to be changed.

What content exactly are you having issues with? This patch gave everyone more damage while mobs remained the exact same level and stats. The only two places that have changed are Mandate and Cold Storage, which can still be cleared quite easily even by lfping into the dungeon. Or maybe Im just understanding you wrong.