Making money is too easy

Tojop - Dreamweaver
Tojop - Dreamweaver Posts: 623 Arc User
edited May 2010 in General Discussion
Preface: The title of this thread is half-ironic.

It used to be, gold was 100-120k each, and you could grind that in about an hour (give or take). Now gold is at 400k+, and drops are being nerfed so its even MORE difficult to make money. Stay tuned for ensuing reality....

When gold was 120k, flawess citrines sold for 800k+. Ultimate substances were a flat 60k each, which meant half an hour of grinding coin. There were no sesame/herb yuanxiao for clerics; read: running TT meant burning a charm.

Furthermore, there was no bounty hunter, but we had zhen squads. These squads cost (during my 6x) around 50k an hour, after computing charm/esoterica. They gave me in the order of 15-25%, give or take, depending on squad. All of you 6x can compare this with your BH rate. 7x can compare this with BH combined with wine fees. Here I would actually like some input.

Also, there was rebirth to do. Gamma is not as effective these days, because hp charms are so expensive for bms and barbs that they just go for the cheaper bh alternative. But back in the day, you could get a charm for 400k.

Point of this thread.....Is it actually easier to level and more difficult to make money these days? Flawless shard prices have been cut by 75%, ultimate subs by 50%, and expensive zhen/rebirth with free (or cheap wine fee with tokens) bounty hunter.

I want people who played before packs came out, even before the jolly jones event last August, to give some input here. Michael_dark, I'm looking at you. Are we really worse off? Think about what I've said before you post, please

Edit: Forgot a few things. With current gold prices/drop rates, getting a herc/nix without spending real money is more difficult. Also, My zhen costs are as a cleric: for barb/bm (or veno puller, even), they were profiting 50k ish an hour. Wizard/archer share similar costs to my own.
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  • PequetteV - Lost City
    PequetteV - Lost City Posts: 1,202 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    first gold i bought was 83k

    then after couple month u had gold around 130k-160k

    then first slap chest of coins gold instantaly double price to go 300k so people wasnt able to make money from chest (perfect hammer was in same time)

    then first 1 year pak, people didnt really know what was all benefit so gold was turning around 420k-450k

    then 2nd slap anoter 1year pak with better reward gold went as high as 850k

    then since it keep having pak or other sell at same time price go from 460k-570k




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  • Aneurysmal - Heavens Tear
    Aneurysmal - Heavens Tear Posts: 798 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Pack 1 annihilated the economy.

    It's far too easy to level now, and too hard to make actual money. The market is skewed in favor of the CASH investor so heavily now that in essence, 5 days of non-stop effort can be bought in 5 minutes. Months in hours if you're willing to lay down the CASH. I only wish I'd started spending in August '09 instead of a year earlier... Except if I'd started playing in '09 I would've never played past level 30, except on a veno, which I find incredibly boring and probably wouldn't have played past 60.
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  • Flare - Heavens Tear
    Flare - Heavens Tear Posts: 331 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I used to buy gold for under 100k. I spent around 600k back then to get about 20 guardian angels back then for Halloween packs. The duke actually talked about people getting midnights, weapon/ornament packs, and headless horsemen amulets/belts. I already thought the gold was expensive then.

    At level 88, I went to my first tw guild and I avoided tw most of the time even with gold hp charms at 300k ea. Now with 11k+ hp unbuffed, that price is nice. Right before the first anniversary packs, I had 25m coins. I was regarded as rich, but I guess it all started with the chest of coins and anniversary packs. Also, the unbelievable lag all started with the genies...b:surrender
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  • Tojop - Dreamweaver
    Tojop - Dreamweaver Posts: 623 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    You guys (PequetteV and Aneurysmal) have both missed my point. Money may be more difficult to get, but what are you trying to buy with it? Dragon orbs, shards, and mats for gear, in short. Twilight Temple is easier to run for mats, because people have better gear and knowledge of the instance. Shards are by FAR cheaper because of tokens.

    Refining is more expensive. Was it too cheap to begin with? I think that's a valid question.
  • Tojop - Dreamweaver
    Tojop - Dreamweaver Posts: 623 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Pack 1 annihilated the economy.

    Sorry for double post. I don't think the anni packs "annihilated" the economy; what they did was bring about an enormous paradigm shift in the way items were valued relative to each other. Some items became far more expensive; some items became far cheaper.

    Instead of being able to trade a flawless citrine for two gold charms, now you couldn't even trade two flawless shards for ONE charm. Considering what each of those items does, which do you think "should" be the case?

    Consider the relative difference in cost between items, pre-pack and post-pack, and how difficult it was to acquire said items, before talking about how "difficult" it is to make money.
  • DoughieFace - Archosaur
    DoughieFace - Archosaur Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I think in the end we balanced out. Before I would get a MP charm and zhen to level and do TT to get my gear + extra mats to sell for some nice shards. I re-rolled my cleric and haven't held an MP charm on my current, but have a full set of gear with Flawlesses and level at around the same pace. If anything it seems to have gotten a bit easier to make my gear better. As far as refining goes, so far I've only used the mirages and stones from the TB quest to refine. In conclusion I guess now good gear has substituted a charm, since I don't zhen anymore to level and BH doesn't require a charm. Pots aren't that bad of a cost for my at the moment and are sufficent for TT runs..but my gear this go around is a goodly bit better than my first go.

    This is my experience b:chuckle

    Edit: I wanted to point out that I haven't reached the zhenning point yet, but I do think that BH would be about the same for a lesser cost (50k wine fee with a chance for drops vs. 500k mp charm + eso with DQ drops and glaze making it roughly maybe a 60k profit).
  • XHappyBunnyx - Sanctuary
    XHappyBunnyx - Sanctuary Posts: 683 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    it is way too easy to make money .... if your a cash shopper.
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  • Tojop - Dreamweaver
    Tojop - Dreamweaver Posts: 623 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    That has never not been true, and always will be so long as this game is free to play. Double negative FTW b:victory
  • Opre - Heavens Tear
    Opre - Heavens Tear Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    My veno has maxed inv and safe from the good old days when gold was sooooo cheap. Now i quitted my veno since it costs so much to buy a herc. Less DQ drops and even worse -20% profit from them make venos a fail class. Just my opinion. It used to be the richest class in PWI now its the poorest. Thank u PWI for such a fail and for bein so damn greedy
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  • Shadowfire - Dreamweaver
    Shadowfire - Dreamweaver Posts: 356 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I think personally (at least for me) it's balanced out. Gold was around 100k on DW when i started, and stayed that way past the point where i was lvl 50 and getting the supply stash hammer for that weapon. Gold has gotten a lot more expensive, but at higher levels there are also a lot more ways to earn coins. Farming mats to sell (admittedly boring and not as profitable as it was when mats were 4k/each), selling OHT mats (personal favorite, as i don't use them and they sell well), and so on.

    Things seem worse because people are doing generally more difficult things, for example the Equinox/Calamity 3 hour tws make me wish charms were 400k still, and it makes the current price seem worse. However, that's because of a change in faction, people generally hitting harder, and being higher level.

    I'll admit to wasting a lot of coins where i don't need to, and if i didn't have that i would be in about the same situation i was in when i started, generally happy with how things were. Overall, there's more stuff to spend coins on, so people tend to feel like they aren't better off. But, 3mil+ for an immaculate shard vs. 1mil or less, i think things would be better off in terms of cost. (also, the ability to run things such as CoA that people didn't have before)

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  • UrbanOutlaw - Heavens Tear
    UrbanOutlaw - Heavens Tear Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Yeah, i started playing this about one year ago now. And i have noticed every step of the way, you want to get anywhere fast, good things fast, like fashion, ground mounts, flying mounts.. there is no way in hell you will get the best anytime soon, unless you don't mind spending hours everyday.. working on grinding to earn coin and not getting anywhere with your level.. when you get 80+. I don't really mind the levels, but experiencing for myself just how long it takes to make enough money, coin on here b:surrender then how about just grinding mats in TTor where ever in game, to try and get the mats needed for TT, FF, Lunar, Nirvana? if you have nothing else to do with your lives except earning those things in game and taking god knows how long.. with no zen purchasing, i salute you b:victory other then getting those things faster like so many would rather do.. they, you, who ever, needs to buy Zen and get gold. Don't get me wrong i know that much, you have the real life money to waste on here.. Gratz b:victory i'll be one of the many who can't and in my case.. doesn't want to waste money on this game, i will get the good, great, awesome gear slowly b:cute
  • BarbLord - Raging Tide
    BarbLord - Raging Tide Posts: 378 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    well i started playing in november 08
    however as a total noob in both economy and mmos i didnt really get aware off the economy til the time the chest off coins were relleased and quite frankly also the time i really started to get off and start to tank TTs a bit and use hp charms as they were cheap as dirt anyway 400k for 1 gold hp charm lol id earn that back by running 1 TT2-1 even the mats wurlord droped in TT2-1 costed 300k+ each(that was awesome easy to obtain money)
    but then bhs were relleased and since i didnt really grind afterwards as the fool i was
    all i could do was relying on TTs for money now that wouldnt be a real problem but i couldnt find squads and TT mat prices started dropping
    now i quitted my old main at lvl 87 and even TT2-3 mats were massivly losing any value
    i can thank those cursed 2x events

    so i gotta disagree money making was easier pre packs because refining to lets say +5(only an example no idea about how much gold im talking) costed pretty much nothing
    yes we get subs for only 2/3 off their original price and shards at flawless and above 1/4 off their original price
    but bhs are about as expensive as zhen was at 8x and above
    also take in account people grind alot less and so free to play people suffer on that point to sure its their own choice but just about everyone will bh as much as they can
    also other ways off making money have been cut normal mat prices went down in price well except those that drop off mobs but nobody grinds so ofc the supply off them went down and with the same demand the price goes up
    also the TT mat prices went down another market to make this game f2p away
    and theres alot more markets that made the game f2p that died its just to much to list
    the only ones that benefit are those the buy zen and sell it as gold and the good merchants wont make much loss and maybe more benefit now

    so basicly yes a few things went down in price but the ways off making money weakend if not completly died
  • yashino
    yashino Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    b:sleep this game is way too easy to cash shop.
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    already quit pwi, and yet my gears are still superior than 95% of you people.
  • JollyJaguar - Sanctuary
    JollyJaguar - Sanctuary Posts: 431 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    heh I remember when getting my herc I refused to pay 3k for SoF cause it was "Incredibly expensive". I shouldve bought my nix back then too. Stupid battle pet pack sale isnt working...
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  • UrbanOutlaw - Heavens Tear
    UrbanOutlaw - Heavens Tear Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    And to you all putting down others for not wanting, willing, being able to waste money on here like yourselves.. i have a family, like i'm sure many others do, bills to pay, our family to take care of, not waste money on this game. Putting them down and myself, saying noob or fail, you'd be surprised at just how many.. like to play this game to have fun, help others, as for being the best in Duels, PK or TW. I think maybe a Pvp Server would suit you best, not a Pve server b:chuckle And yes.. i'm sure pretty much all of you have families, real life issues to deal with, as for spending so much on a game.. whats that say about yourself? then again yeah.. you may be one of the more wealthy in game pricks, putting people down lol
  • sleepcat
    sleepcat Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Sorry for double post. I don't think the anni packs "annihilated" the economy; what they did was bring about an enormous paradigm shift in the way items were valued relative to each other. Some items became far more expensive; some items became far cheaper.

    Maybe I never paid attention to it before but ever since FF13 came out, I've been seeing the term paradigm shift a lot more. b:surrender
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  • UrbanOutlaw - Heavens Tear
    UrbanOutlaw - Heavens Tear Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    And i'm talking to the people with +6 or higher gear on this Pve server, ruining it for the rest =) They can spend so much real life money, or spend so much time grinding on a Pve server to make money.. whatever the case, to make gear, weapons, armor, ornaments, +6 or higher and so many with +10 and some higher b:surrender why can't they do that on a Pvp server? b:cute
  • Tojop - Dreamweaver
    Tojop - Dreamweaver Posts: 623 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    but bhs are about as expensive as zhen was at 8x and above

    Counterpoint: In the days of zhen squads, the only way to level at 86+ was rebirth and grind. Rebirth gamma (and maybe zhen? idk, I stopped at high 7x) was only effective to level 85. As you are all aware, grinding at 86+ for exp is largely useless (not counting hyper, obv).

    This is why so many of the Lost City/Heaven's Tear 10x people "appear" to always be on their high horse: getting to level 100 meant months of delta, not a week or three of hyper-frost.

    Right now, hitting level 100 is a type of barrier: nothing to do, except BH (for coin) and grind/tt/nirvana (also for coin). That barrier used to be at level 86, which puts a whole new spin on TT90 gears, green and otherwise. Think about what it would be like to grind, on a training esoterica, from 86-90. Granted, you have crazy stone and world quest, but look at the numbers. Now consider pure grinding at 90+ b:bye

    Again, I posit my original question: Are we better off now, after packs, or before the packs, in terms of leveling and improving gear? I want to emphasize: think about what kind of effort you now put into earning coin/gear vs. what you "used to," and how easily you leveled (and how relevant those levels were).

    Edit: First time I heard "paradigm shift" was on a Magic:the Gathering card by the same name; I've been an english nerd since +2 years after that.
  • UrbanOutlaw - Heavens Tear
    UrbanOutlaw - Heavens Tear Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Yeah, i know many of.. or all the high level refine people on Pve servers or just this one will hate me. I think there should be a limit as to how much you can refine on Pve servers.
    The ones who love to PK & TW i'd love for them and i'm many others would like them to do the same.. buzz off, go away to some Pvp server b:thanks And make it all even and every faction on a Pve server for TW would actually come up with some strategy, plan. But pretty much everyone equal. I think the GM's or whoever decides needs to think about that =)
  • UrbanOutlaw - Heavens Tear
    UrbanOutlaw - Heavens Tear Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Ok.. with this one, i'd like to how many actually leveled up without Hyper EXP Stones, Training Eso's or Oracles.. I've been playing about one year now and just level 96. And have seen many others who were a hell of alot lower and Tideborns now. Alot higher then i am.. I do crazy stone and bounty hunter and thats it, since i got level 90 :P
  • DoughieFace - Archosaur
    DoughieFace - Archosaur Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Well I played my first cleric for about 5 or 6 months and stopped around 82. I bought my first mp charm to zhen uh.. i guess level 65? ya know the one near DWP? Whatever level that was XD. I would zhen when I had a charm and do TT when I had a charm (there were no powders yet, not until Jolly gave me some :P)when I didn't have a charm, it was JQs to level and make the coins to buy another charm or start working on the gems I wanted for my future gears.
    Now.. my current cleric hasn't had a charm yet and got to 60 in a week. A WEEK. Mostly from the nice TB quest and doing daily BH/Crazy stone and my quests (which are still backed up to level 57 or so). I found a nice arcane Helmet and Pants in AH. The helmet had 2 flawless cits and was +1 for like 160k and the pants had 4 sockets that I refined (with the mirages/stones from TB quest) that I filled with Flawless cits from the coins I got while questing/TBquests.... my old cleric never had anything that good at this current level. My buffs, main attacks, heals and revive are all up to date as well. I also managed to get all level 5 manufactoring on a venomancer I leveled when the server first came out. So in conclusion.. at least at my current level, it's been a lot easier to get nicer gear and higher levels faster than previously. How this is in higher levels now, I can't say, but I'm sure that hypers + FC= 80 to 90 much easier and maybe a bit more expensive, if you go that route.
  • chelseacraft
    chelseacraft Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    There are TWO (2) economies in Perfect World not just one.

    1. The original money system in the game between each player & the game.

    2. The economy which arises between players such as catshops, auction & gold sales.

    You simply can't lump them both together & say it's all the same when it's not.

    WHY is there a problem?

    Little kids don't understand basic economics let alone more advanced concepts.

    Who is to blame?

    PWI for failing to provide structure & restrictions for player to player transactions.

    What is the answer?

    Grow up to the fact that PWI is NOT a charity organization created for your personal enjoyment staffed with volunteer workers who just like to listen to your complaints.

    Free players must become grateful that they are here at all & be thankful other people spend money so they can enjoy the game AT A DIMINISHED CAPACITY and not expect to get everything the paying ppl have.

    Free players who cannot wrap their heads around the fact that we've all gone out of our way to be nice & give them something to do here & a chance to make of it what they will then...

    THOSE NEED TO LEAVE.

    Problems all solved. b:victory
  • sweetjamie
    sweetjamie Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    tojop, it is actually much more expensive.

    These new things like event pots, BH runs, near-free experience Rising Tide quests causes people to level at triple the speed. The sooner you get to higher levels the sooner you need to spend massive amounts of coins for required items.

    I played during the time you speak of. Everyone was a much lower level. Thus, their gear cost was a whole lot less.

    There was also Wraith attacks on towns, where you could go to grind and leave with about 80 DQ in 30 minutes and sell for 300k at a merchant or double in catshops. This happened about 3 times a day. People used Crusade Orders and did DQ quests because there was no other means of leveling, so making money with DQ items was fairly decent, and you could sell Crusade Orders for an easy 50k or more per half.

    It was a stable economy and PW was making steady profit. The TW players were still spending thousands like they were today and the game population was consistently growing like their monthly profits.

    Then the new servers were released...
    This is what started the constant degration of Perfect World International.
    Harshlands and its PvE counterpart.

    Mass oracles and god pots were spread all over the server. People were hitting 80+ in a couple days with their lvl 30 gear. Nobody had too godly of gear so the god pots could pretty much heal over any attack whether it be PvE or PvP. The game was already ruined as these events spread across all of international.

    Rising Tide was released with 2 overpowered classes. A psychic that completely replaces the wizard. More damage, better heals, and a powerful damage-to-attacker buff as well as defense and attack buffs. Making the wizard next to useless.

    Let's not forget the invisible assassin that can kill anything in the game except a barb with a triple spark cloak in a couple seconds and then disappear like nothing happened. Nothing can be done about it. SOMETIMES if you possess a certain 3 territories. PvP was ruined.

    Now it's just endless pack after endless pack as non-CS players quit left and right and people re-spec as overpowered classes while PWI milks out all the cash they possibly can from a soon-to-be dead game.

    That's right, release MORE skills to the overpowered classes, and leave the original balanced 6 to suffer.
  • sweetjamie
    sweetjamie Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    There are TWO (2) economies in Perfect World not just one.

    1. The original money system in the game between each player & the game.

    2. The economy which arises between players such as catshops, auction & gold sales.

    You simply can't lump them both together & say it's all the same when it's not.

    WHY is there a problem?

    Little kids don't understand basic economics let alone more advanced concepts.

    Who is to blame?

    PWI for failing to provide structure & restrictions for player to player transactions.

    What is the answer?

    Grow up to the fact that PWI is NOT a charity organization created for your personal enjoyment staffed with volunteer workers who just like to listen to your complaints.

    Free players must become grateful that they are here at all & be thankful other people spend money so they can enjoy the game AT A DIMINISHED CAPACITY and not expect to get everything the paying ppl have.

    Free players who cannot wrap their heads around the fact that we've all gone out of our way to be nice & give them something to do here & a chance to make of it what they will then...

    THOSE NEED TO LEAVE.

    Problems all solved. b:victory

    This game is a lot more expensive than any other game I've ever played.
    I got a video game for $50 the other day...

    This game is $200 for ONE pet.
  • Majesta - Dreamweaver
    Majesta - Dreamweaver Posts: 268 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Hi Tojop b:victory

    I too started playing on DW when the server opened. Gold was sitting at +/- 100k, but we were all still lowbies, so who bought much gold? After the anni packs all prices skyrocketed, gold that is, and never settled down again. I did see gold go down from 350 to 250, but that didnt take long cause corals were soon introduced.

    My main source of money income back then was die-hard grinding and selling the DQ coins. I too used to zhen on -ESO's- (yes those things no one uses anymore). I'm proud to say I made it to lvl 97 with hypering only once to catch up to my hubby in lvl. (Cube event again pl0x :D I had so much fun and the free stones were worth it!)
    To get to lvl 85 I did - a lot - of Gamma's and that is not cheap. Then I had to get ready for lvl 90, meaning getting my mats for TT90 (not to mention the subs). This drained my coin stash, but I found a way to gain it back:

    -What I do to gain money nowadays is spend some time in the most profitable TT instances, such as 2-2, 2-3 and 3-1 and doing this with friends only, cause we can trust eachother and make sure everyone gets mats. Anyhow, we spend some quality time together, have fun, try some stupid things and have the time of our lives (in-game xD) and make good money out of it.-
    Grinding for DQ isn't profitable anymore. You gain too little in too much time, so nerfing the DQ selling price is only adding to that.

    I've never been in a big TW faction, nor will I ever join such factions. I'm happy in somewhat smaller and more 'cozy' factions and thus TW income for a person like me is nul.

    Concluding my story; It sucks Gold prices are this high now, but due to everyone being able to do high lvl instances now, you can generate enough coins to manage. Remember, when we were lowbies at the starting of the servers, we didnt need all the gold or didnt have the money for it. Now that we have gained certain levels, naturally the prices went up, but a lot of items (mats, gear etc) are more easily obtained now too, due to more ppl getting access to instances because of their levels. So I think prices for only in-game items are fair. Cash shop items... b:sad

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  • Tisa - Dreamweaver
    Tisa - Dreamweaver Posts: 100 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Point of this thread.....Is it actually easier to level and more difficult to make money these days?

    Yes and maybe/no.

    Leveling nowadays is without a doubt a lot easier, but consequently doesn't give basically any sense of accomplishment except when you hit 100. Before all this BH/Hyper **** started people worked hard for their levels.
    I got to around 81-82 with grinding / Dragon Quest/ World quest, Crazy Stone and doing a crapton of lower FBs every day (remember the world shouts ''Squad doing FB19->59''? i don't see any anymore). When i made 30% a day with FBs and Dragon quests in late 7x i felt like i accomplished something. Now 30% per day at even 90 means 1-2h of ''work'' with Hypers & FC.

    Money?

    I'm not sure. You can't grind for cash anymore, that's for sure. Like you said, gold was 120k or so...for me as a veno that ment doing a few 1-1 Solo Mode runs which made me some gold (was low 6x when price was still that low). 1-1 Solo mode bought my herc as well. Even if you couldnt do TT by yourself, you could still get a squad and sell those Gold Shards for 450-500k. You could still grind on favorable mobs and pull 150-250k per hour which bought at least 1-2 gold.
    It was easier to get money back then with actually playing the game and living off of mob drops. Nowadays you can make money , but almost exclusively through merchanting which is not something a lot of people enjoy. Merchanting was not a necessity back then, now it's either that or charging zen once you hit higher levels.
    Bottom line...back then my herc/nix/aero/fashion were farmed by playing the game, now they would be earned by me afk'ing in Arch with catshop up and re-selling stuff.
  • WingedXepher - Dreamweaver
    WingedXepher - Dreamweaver Posts: 84 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    You know what Tojop? you are half right, half not.

    I never do CS, i never do World Quest, i have been doing BH every 3 days, the only Dailie that i do is the OHT one cuz i get about 70k coins (18 normal + 4 tears).

    I never use charms, i never do Rebirth Orders, i cant afford a charm.

    Im an old player, but i quited for 7 months the game, i was one of the highest lvls on my actual faction, and i can say you this:

    - I used to have an excellent gear before those 7 months.
    - I used to have fash, AC pets, LOT of mounts, i used to buy charms for 400k... yes, 400k, the gold ones.
    - I used to do zhen, cuz i used to afford the money.
    - I used to buy black, white pigments for 500k, and that wasnt expensive.

    And since packs appeared i cant do that, wanna know why?

    While people used to farm TT, i used to farm all day long mid mats, they used to worth 4k each, so that was easy, 7 hours farming and imagine how many money i could get...

    Before Coral Packs, people used to buy High Mats for 4k, an awesome price, cuz imagine... you dont need a squad to farm, you only need a mount, u go to boundless grass land, farm in 2 hours 100 of each mats = 1.6 mil.

    Now, with luck you can get 2k for each mat...WITH LUCK!

    I know what is farm, i have been doing it since i started to play.

    And now, that farm mats is useless, i started with DQ items; And when i start with them, they are reducing their price?... WTH?

    And about charms... the only charm i used since i came back from my "quit" is the one that the Tideborn Quest gives when you finish it...

    And of course its faster to lvl, but, why hurry? i only do marriage quest and some bhs... some, and im about to be 97, and im pretty sure that in that way, i will be the same lvl as you, cuz 101+ is a loooong way to go.

    About flawless gems: Yeah, they are WAAAY cheaper, but flawless used to be a nice shard, now its ****, why? cuz Garnet Gems, Citrines Gems, and Shappire Gems have arrived, and when i see someone with flawless i can see myself when i was lvl 50 and i used to watch the gear of the other people and see on their gear flawless and immaculate gems while i was wearing averages...

    Its the same.

    I used to wear averges > they used to wear flawless and immaculates.
    I use immaculates and perfects (with luck) > they use or Citrine gems, or +10 vit stones.
  • sweetjamie
    sweetjamie Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    The game is too easy now. You level so fast without a challenge at all and then BAM you have to buy a $200 pet, spend tons on lvl 80-90 mats to get your armor and weapon.

    If you want to even consider PvP, you have to keep up with the other users, that are now wearing G10-12. You are forced to empty your wallet just to consider it.
  • WingedXepher - Dreamweaver
    WingedXepher - Dreamweaver Posts: 84 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Yeah... i used to do zhen, i used to buy quest, i used to do fbs all day long, now, anyone with money can do it easier.

    So all the hard work that i did...is nothing now.
  • chelseacraft
    chelseacraft Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    sweetjamie wrote: »
    This game is a lot more expensive than any other game I've ever played.
    I got a video game for $50 the other day...

    This game is $200 for ONE pet.

    Yeah that pet is a reward for those of us who pay that much money into this game.

    Legendary pets are not REQUIRED to play or succeed in the game.

    Buying things is NOT mandatory.

    and you can always do what I did EARN COINS IN GAME & get a herc or nix.

    So your argument is not meaningful or logical. Thanks for your reply anyway.