This may strike a nerve with some players about getting rich schemes, but if your on the other end of the unable to run content due to low guild alliance tree then please hear me out. What I been seeing and I will give an example for this called TOMM. Still to this day I believe more than 80% of players cannot run this still two years out. What I think needs to happen is to allow players to sell all drops from dungeon/trial content. This would not only encourage players to stick around for the sweet sweet competitive AD market, but allow lower level players who can't get into the content due to low guild/alliance/IL to still be able to grind dailies to buy the gear they need to be better competitive to be able to enter the content hopefully faster. I have watched players leave low level alliances for the empty promises of the TOMM weapons and never get them as they can't be carried and ultimately quit the game. Allowing players to sell drops like weapons and gear, would help others to gear up faster and even if they can't run Tomm, now perhaps they are able to run VOS with better weapons or some sort of armor like RIB Cage. I honestly never saw issues so bad with players leaving than those who cant raise up their gear scores or gain access to content due to the revolving door player base we have right now making every gap between new and vets bigger and bigger. People will want to run content more for the dream of making AD to upgrade their character as well as farming allows for support of alts we as players have as well. New players can run dailies and other content their current IL allows them to until they can buy what they need to reach the next level. Everyone is happy. Running VOS for example for a specific ring you need 200 times and still not get it is also not fun. But allowing the rings to be sold/traded like the weapons will help with burn out and massive emptiness between MOD's. For those players who say no and think I want something to hold over others to show off...well we have it, Halister's cape, Zariel's Lion mount. These kinds of things can still be niche showcases of exclusiveness for running a specific dungeon or trial 200 times. I think it would also be a bonus for those who like to unlock things like this in game to stick around as well. Please consider allowing all drops to be sellable/trade and adding niche things up front to dungeons/trial so players stick around longer. The more something saturates the market, the cheaper it will become for all to have access to it quicker to run all content. Thank you for your time.
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The gear of the dungeon (or from somewhere else) could be salvaged to get AD long time ago. They removed that for a "reason".
That is it is not they cannot do that. It is they "consider" it is bad for "reasons".
Yes, they fully aware of your reasons which comes up time to time in the past 5 years.
And do they really want to retain the current player base? May be they want a new generation of new players and not us.
I do worry about gear being sold in the Zen store for a couple reasons though.
1. They normally way overprice the few newer things that have been introduced. I won't even think about paying $100 +tax US for something that I can grind for or might get a drop of something that is as good or just about as good.
2. For the players that can't really afford to purchase Zen, they are in the same boat because the AD->Zen exchange was all but broken because of the wait time. The last I heard it was about 3 months. I might have used it once in all the years I've played and I think it was actually because I needed the extra AD's for something that I thought I needed right now.