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[quote="ISELIX"]Hey! Some of you may know me, recognise my name - others will see someone new. Ive been around forever. I have a slight issue with the current set-up of the game, with regards to levelling/drops/SR's/combine. The fact is simple: With rested, or even without it, we level at such a speed now that i simply can't generate enough wealth to progress my character. No-one uses or accepts Barr, If you take away the free pvp pots - or only allow lower levels to use them - that might make higher levels want/need Barr little more. I cant think of anything else. It goes without saying, though, No-one uses Barr. I've even offered someone 200k apc for a SR. It was rejected. Impossible to obtain SR's for anything less than a frog/herb/liver. I'm having to extract all my drops for frogs/herbs/livers.I cant build up any form of stash, there's little to no hope of me ever having enough items or base materials for items like evasion. There has to be a NPC that sells SR's for 75-150k. Even if you can only use it x1-x3/day soma-time. There's no way i'm destroying x3 Rare Apus-M at the blacksmith. Or my hero. I'm left stuck in town waiting for SR's. The only other option is to use base bone and hunt weak mobs. So.. no hunting or awful stats. #woohoo. Combine is a great feature, it really is - but it means that every "tom dick and harry" wants to keep their items to combine them; make a higher tag, a more valuable trade. The higher levels used to feed down hard/rare tags to lower levels. They don't do that anymore. Its really hard to get hold of anything that isn't Epic/Intense. Epic/Intense has become the "sell point". That's makes everything very expensive. I've alleady spent every frog/herb/liver egg/at/db/sp for SR's. So that comes to drops. I know all spawns have been combined, but we level x2 now. x1 drops means the later-level 100's like me are zooming to 100 getting half of what the older ones got. I know people will say "some good, some bad" but its really, really frustrating to get little to no drops, and any drops we do get used for SR's. I had 50 frogs in my bank when i came back. I now have zero. I have gained one Nahwans/Eggpile in 550% levelling at Hoarde. I'm not saying life is hard.. just very frustrating..Eggpile was from quest, too - by the way. We NEED a SR NPC and drop-rates need to be INCREASED. Im bored of waiting hours every day for SR freebies from mates. It also goes without saying, there are people out there i owe an absolute fortune to when it comes to freebies. I know people will say "just craft". I dont have the strength of will. I'm sick. I'm not spending the time i am awake and feeling better crafting. Please! More drops! NPC for SR. Make Barr USEFUL again. [/quote]

[quote="OPENTHEDOOR"]Good post. The reason SR's are so expensive now is because that many people with them have quit/taken a break and it's left a big vacuum. The capped players left are hunting mags which go through dura like no tomorrow. [/quote]

[quote="OPENTHEDOOR"]I also make about 500k an hour hunting mags. So most people hunting them will have stock piles of barr that that anymore is useless.[/quote]

[quote="TABORLIN"]Stop moaning because things have been made easyer. If you dont like paying frogs herbs or Ll for sr then get crafting and get yourself your own Sr's. Yes you will end up having less drops by x lvl then those that came before but it also took them 4x as long to level..[/quote]

[quote="GHOSTLORD"][quote="TABORLIN"]Stop moaning because things have been made easyer. If you dont like paying frogs herbs or Ll for sr then get crafting and get yourself your own Sr's. Yes you will end up having less drops by x lvl then those that came before but it also took them 4x as long to level..[/quote] I don't see his post as moaning though. He gaves his thoughts in a constructive manner, that is useful and respectful.[/quote]

[quote="REBEKAH"]Leveling speeds have increased so crafting rates should be increased too?[/quote]

[quote="TYPHIN"]I get the impression that since you don't craft you don't make any of your own things. That's not therefore limited to an sr but would include upgrades. I've leveled before during and after many changes on the sever since its came out and I haven't found any of the changes a detriment to my experience. I do however have sr and a prepare alt and those help for Barr and upgrades. Barr is of value btw there's been plenty of Barr only sales over the last few weeks in the emporium. Perhaps not what you are looking for for but Barr still holds value[/quote]

[quote="KAIDONE"]Thought you would of known by now, con to 30, craft till SR, bow till you can just about reach str cap with axe then heal for int, oh don't forget to hunt -50 str mobs the whole way which you will need a 7% eva set or a lvl 100 alt char to tank :)... In all seriousness though it's becoming more of a 1 path plan in soma boringggggggggg lol, unfortunately no one shows an interest in changing the way it works so you might actually have a mix of chars ( could you imagine that a total mix of chars rather than everyone the same ) *shudders*.[/quote]

[quote="PATHOLOGIST"]Go to LB with free mode for 1 day. Stockpile your plentiful tagged drops and do bulk sales for frogs etc on the emporium.[/quote]

[quote="LOTSO"][quote="PATHOLOGIST"]Go to LB with free mode for 1 day. Stockpile your plentiful tagged drops and do bulk sales for frogs etc on the emporium.[/quote] surly you mean a hour? [/quote]

[quote="WARRE"]just get sr iselix ... has te be done :)[/quote]

[quote="BRAINSTORM"][quote="LOTSO"][quote="PATHOLOGIST"]Go to LB with free mode for 1 day. Stockpile your plentiful tagged drops and do bulk sales for frogs etc on the emporium.[/quote] surly you mean a hour? [/quote] yeah defo an hour iv seen the drops there on my dev and theres a fair amount of drops there lol[/quote]

[quote="FLICKTHEBEAN"]I think Iselix voiced a valueable point. People have started charing items such as frog/herb/LL for SRs again, not sure why, as prior to my leaving and coming back the average was 50k apc. People profiteering off SRs because higher levels can afford it has knocked lower levels out of the market for them. Hunting anything below BLG will be completely be unsustainable if you're using equiptment that needs SRs. At least when it was barr price, this was not as much of an issue, as a good drop could net a nice barr price sale and keep you going on SRs a while. Now, however, an AT, for example, covers an in-game day of SRs and you're unlikely to see one within the next 4 hour block to cover the next ones, hell, you're pretty unlikely to see one again within the next week. Part time players that don't like the idea of putting 180hours into getting an SR, if selling. (not including material buying time) are trying to build their characters and not being able to do so. Even if he were to get an SR, one will never be enough and drops still wouldn't cover the other ones needed. Besides, I can only give away so many SRs, I cannot help the entire population! Nor can Mr. Lyon. As for this LB stuff, it'd take days to get something worth anything, I've farmed them a bit myself and I rarely leave with anything in my bag.[/quote]

[quote="MANDELA"]Lets not be too pessimistic Flick. If a player cant find the time to invest to get 1 sr , there are countless herbs to be found at raps.. frogs at stigs , and lls at dw's etc etc. Tho, farming all that , would be far easier just to get urself an sr. Still..obtaining an sr aint too difficult however u do it #Freenelson[/quote]

[quote="ISELIX"]I really think we need a SR NPC, even if it's limited in uses/day and has a high cost! Im not often awake in the daytime, and at night there just isnt the UC online with SR's to sell. Night time can be a struggle![/quote]