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Ok, how exactly is the game pay 2 win here? For PVP: Players still need to run the dungeons to actually get the PVP gear and need to upgrade it (you can't pay2win this). You need to do PVP to upgrade the weapon, you cannot p2w this either (some older weapon tiers sometimes are purchasable for currency but those are old outdated weapons) Next, lets go to Soul / Pet / Heart / Talisman - Oils arent that hard to come by....you either play the market and buy what you need while acumulating scales to upgrade, or you farm CS and MSP to make your own oils. Pet packs can be transmuted or bought off F5 - so this isnt exactly p2w either. Fusion stones - can be afk farmed. The ONLY thing i would agree on that hard to get are gems, however you do not need the latest end-game gems, as they really do not impact much. The game is much more pay2progress rather than pay2win since you can essentially get anything you need in game and not to mention you do not need 100% end game items to be able to clear all current content or even do PVP for that matter.

Because unless mass KR players ask for it it will not happen xD

thats normal if the weapon is mythical. Nothing bugged there.

You cant open them anymore as they are antiqued. Either way support will not return your gold.

No lawsuit will stand untill you actually go through a support ticket and they flat out refuse to do anything about it. That being said, its obvious these were removed unintentionally, so until they get a new patch from KR to put them back there is nothing they can do. Its not the end of the world, especially since the armor remnant oils / pet packs are weekly and not daily.

They should have at least added Thornbreaker or maybe even silversteel soulshields to the drop list like last time so that it would potentially make it worth it with maybe some material rewards.

How is it a let down? There were no badges, souls, pets, talismans back in the day that's why they do not work. The entire concept of realmrift is to complete the dungeon the same way it was completed back in 45-lvl days. Even if they scaled it with badges, you would still die as the dungeon would not rely on damage numbers but actual mechanics. Also all classes are playable without the badges and so far i did not see the damage too far apart on the dps meter. The dungeon is really fun to do, too bad we dont have more like this.

They literally stated there are fixes in this patch. Also very likely the reason why they did not post any is they need to get more confirmations from the devs and very likely one of the reported exploits is getting a fix which obviously should not be made public. Its not like waiting will have any impact on your playtime or life. People need to chill a bit.

Depends what you spent it on. Certain gear items give a larger boost over others. Generally each upgrade is at the very least a dps increase. So what did you upgrade? FM changes are part of balancing patch, and NC has 0 to say in that. All class changes / skill changes are korea driven and if the devs want to change something they will, regardless of player feedback. Also keep in mind the current class changes were all up to a point with the new system in mind which we did not get yet.

They will not extend the event. They never did and never do. The bundles in the hongmoon store are there so people that join the event late can still complete it by paying if they choose to.

Other games have their own problems. Such as New World still bricking some GPU's. There are 2 things left, although it can be quite a longshot: Ram: You say your ram runs at 3200, you get that from windows or bios or from a more reliable source such as hwinfo? In other games there seemed to have been issues with the CPU that you have. Untill in the affinity settings people unmarked CPU19. Might be worth a shot.

It is the silversteel weapon material.

To add: you can exchange 1 yousang bead at Kagcha for a box that gives a guaranteed scale.

It does inform you when you do a first time purchase with paypal. also there is 2 factor authentication you can setup for your nc account. This is no different than other sites that save payment information for faster checkouts.

The problem with this is that NC staff has 0 influence on the fix. they can report it to devs, push for it, discuss it, put it on their wallpaper on the PC, if the devs decide they wont fix it for 1-2-3 weeks, they cannot do anything. Korean devs dictate what gets fixed and when when it comes to bugs. Unless its something critical and entirely gamebreaking, you are always looking at average 1-5 weeks time to get it fixed.

They can add stuff in the hongmoon store. they have tools for that. Anything added anywhere else in the game, dragon express etc are depending on developer patches / developer intervention. NC cannot do it themselves. they cannot add correct gems into dragon express to exchange for the bad ones, it requires a patch from developers.

F10 does not require Developer intervention to fix if something isnt right. NC can do it themselves. This can only be fixed once the devs provide a patch. THey wont know what is in the patch untill they get it together with the release notes from Korea. All their patches / fixes come from Korea, and until they get them there is nothing they can do.

just swap the badge over to the one you need

Yes, but it was removed cause players complained about it xD

it is a "potential" downgrade because GC is the first raid path that changed how the raid weapon buff worked. thats why most players recommend trying to skip the GC path as fast as you can. ( If i am not mistaking the weapon only becomes decent at stage 9) Again as i said there is NOTHING stopping you from making a group with all those people and doing the raid. Literally. How do you think others got it done? If you do not get recruited you make a group. But if no one wants to step up as a lead and organize one, then you wont have one. Most other players dont recruit for it because they do not need it anymore or because they have their own guild runs. You need to accept the fact that if you wanna do the raid you have to organise it, do not expect people to jsut free carry you. No, because all players were in the exact same situation when IA raid first released. Players also had to look for recruitments, organise groups and learn mechanics. In that aspect nothing changed. I would understand if there were no players looking for raid groups, but there are, plenty of them, jsut no one wants to step up as a lead. And that is not a game issue. Pleb BM raid literally has no mechanics asside 1 50% conduction which just anyone can essentially do that has a brain. So if i made a website saying "estimated data" on BnS and said it has 5mil concurrent players over a few months. that would also be a "figure nontheless" and be a "representative figure". The website you chose to use as base even says themselves they dont even know the accuracy of their own data so basing anything on those numbers is nothing. No it is not exactly what it means. Profits going down can also be a result of not having enticing sales, or players simply not willing to spend money but still playing. It does not necessairly mean there is a lack of players. There is a multitude of factors. They do have the gear to do so. They jsut dont want to put in the effort. This is your problem. If someone is making a group they decide who they want in and who not, that is their full right. Nothing is stopping you in making a party with 6x 1.9k ap players to do the dungeon. that is more than enough. But you dont want to do it because everyone thinks they are entitled to a carry. there are some gear gaps in the way current loot works, but all the other issues are completely unrelated to that.

I see plenty of players advertising in the Raid Discord for both: Looking for raid groups and groups advertising selling of items from raids. So its not dead, you just do not know where to look for it. Main source of ores for all raid weapons has always been raid. Any other sources are just tiny extras. Again, if you want the ores, get a raid group going and clear the content. Do not expect to get the 2nd best in slot weapon for basically free. You asked for sources, i listed them for you. You can potentially get 10 ores per week for the coins. that is a very good trade off, considering you dont want to do the actual raid for them. Having stats without a reliable source is the same as having no stats. You cannot measure average stats on stats that you cannot dertermine their actual accuracy. Profits going down does not necerssairly mean lack of playerbase. The game has problems, but so far from your posts it all boils down to "i want max silversteel weapon but dont want to create a raid group and do the raid for it". Grand celestial is the worst weapon from teh raid path. You should upgrade to anything to get away from it be it raid or non-raid.

I agree that is suspicious but, i am not sure how it works at NC, whether they can easily search these things out or if they need dev intervention (its NC so...anything is possible LOL) Personally, i tihnk these should be added to something that is non-competitive to: 1. Give everyone a fair s hot at getting them 2. Will limit the abuse / win trading for it. I get that there are people that like arena / pvp but unless they add an actual fix for it or start checking this legitimately, nothing will change.

Mao and Spectral shrine are 2 different things and work differently. You really should not compare them at all. Mao gave you fragments that you essentially could farm to then combine them into tokens. If i am not mistaking the necklace back then costed 25 coins which was 500 fragments you had to farm, + breakthrough materials. There wont be any changes to the spiritwalker necklace untill we get a new dungeon with the next stage necklace.

I guess it kind off depends on if its the same person you report multiple times. I am pretty sure NC doesnt directly ban for windtrading. they very likely have rules for that which may be warning first / second time, then maybe a temp 3 day ban. then maybe removal from leaderboards etc.... But you will not know unless you track reports per player. Also pretty sure a report itself doesnt do much if they cannot actually prove that it was wintraded. This is the whole reason why any hongmoon coin rewards should be removed from such leaderboards.

The same as people got them before: you advertise and create your own raid group you can lead, explain mechs to people and clear it. THats how everyone else got their ores. Or if you do not want to put in the effort and work, you can just get ores from weeklies, then from doing the Twisted Serpent Stronghold weekly 4x and buy the ores from the NPc. Ores (and others for raid weapon path) were never "sellable" unless specifically sealed versions dropped from the raid. Also it wont be acc bound for a while since IA is still 2nd raid and 2nd BiS ring / earrring and weapon. 1. Do the actual Raid 2. Weeklies 3. Doing Twisted Serpent Stronghold 4x per week to get the coins and buy ores from the NPC 4. Daily Dash with the weekly chests when its available Also....the data on the site you provided is VERY questionable. I am pretty certain its not even 50% accurate.