Let not forget that we can’t add ichor to weapons. That’s the worst part. I guess the armor is pretty good for pve contents.
Can’t equip ichors, but to auto match CMs stages 2 and 3 you need fixed ichors of lvl380+. Welp, I was thinking of making a Clown for some daily CMs, but I guess not anymore. Here’s hoping they give us savinose gear in an event like ktos got.
I guess this sucks for new players too. Not being able to easily queue, I mean.
Well we can get a 440 t8 scroll from this event BUT it’s all rng like letica XD…
That’s IMC for you there. We can’t even save enough coin to exchange the scroll yourself, it’s all up to luck now.
I wonder how enhancing / trancending of the event gear works:
“The enhancement and transcendence of these equipments can be improved through exclusive event scrolls.”
Also I wonder if the ichor part is true. I would expect they added these gears as rewards so people can queue for EP13 CM, but that requires fixed ichors? Maybe they just mean you can’t put random ichors into them since they come with stats?
Will have to choose between those and Gazing Golem for staff users.
RIP Centaurus
I’m not even sure what to think of this… wouldn’t the episode 11 level 400 with +11 t10 and fixed ichors be actually better? And who would waste a level 440 t10 scroll on such items…
That’s good, it was absurd to have to wait like 10 seconds after one stage of transcendance to wait for the next one…
No it’s not because the original price is based on 10% tax.
But yeah no need to go to the NPC if you want to switch and the 20% extra is only on a small fee anyway…
I’m still not sure the “auto-queue CM” will be used that much… You can still join parties or do the solo CM with assisters, the latter being less rewarding but much easier and accessible for new players.
But would you use it on that restricted reward or on clean glacia? I wouldn’t hesitate a second…
For transcending you would require level 440 transcendance scrolls, but is there something similar for enhancement? IIRC there are some +11 enhancement coupons in some TP packages, and those could be duplicated as event coupons…
That’s okay. A lot of players (including myself) use variety of ichors depending on mob type.
Remember that in ktos the drop seems to be greater than here and will still take a drop buff … Why not in the ark fragment?
simple answer, its not yet the time
at the end of day arch stone will face the same fate like magic stone
magic stone klaipeda price was 10m+ (damn that was a good time farming ms) before wbr update and now its 5% the price
same fate will happen to archstone/frag
but then we will get new “archstone” that going to be expensive that everyone will want.
so honestly there is an option to save gearing cost by buying later until your needs are cheaper because what you need is someone else leftover and when this leftovers stock overflow it bound to be cheaper.
the first/2nd week goddess/demon set release cheapest dark red soul stone would cost 50m and someone would still buy it, and goddess debris cost 30m+ ish with 25m ish instant sold
now that majority non-casual needs are fulfilled the price dropped significantly that now the buyers probably are casual who just stepping up the game or whale who try to collect more sets or invest for lv 3 armors, increasing price slowly
Funny story here.
Archstone was EASIER TO GET when release and also cheaper.
We are also EASIER to make money back then.
The kararlene accessories and Ark was introduced for EIGHT MONTHS already, and is also VERY OLD CONTENT, just barely newer than Verna gears.
Yet what IMC decide to do is to add more powercreep ichor upgrade that demand the same material and makes Archstone HARDER to get .
WHY though?
Especially when they make Lucifer VERY CHEAP to make.
Is as if they want the OLD PLAYERS to BECOME EVEN MORE OP than new players while trying to FORCE NEW PLAYERS AWAY.
WHY we have Lucifer which is just a timesink you can slowly work for it by doing actual content, while then we have this ARCHSTONE which is just mindless CM farm forever, insanely lucky drop, or insane rng in goddess grace? Is like IMC ONLY care about the oldest players, not new ones.
at least with the star ARK it’s a game changer (divine punishment is usually my 4th or 5th dps skill in WBR for example). A karaline necklace alone is more expensive than the star ark and according to some of my friend who already have a piece of luciferi or 2 they all said you need at least the necklace to see some game changing stuff.
I’m doing all weeklies and during the time where arch stone was available I got one. Since then I only got 2 fragments. And fragments are now around 100 mil in the market, if there are any (which is not always the case). I don’t know why there are even fragments if you can’t get them more easily than the arch stone… If you want an arch stone now, the only way is to farm silver endlessly and spend high amount daily on the lottery. And the best way to farm that high amount of silver is to sell high value items. This means getting lucky (like finding a valuable Vaivora for a class you don’t use) or becoming a P2W player and selling items from cubes.
just take a hiatus for a year
maybe they will add karaliene as event s rank gacha lol
i still remember their blog post in august about archstone because kimchi player were mad about karaline and them saying they got that and would pump up fragment drop rate.
it was one of their best jokes.
Frag drop rate was increased, just not enough for the demand because of an extremely badly timed Leticia’s cube that created a massive amount of silver from the ether and suddenly everyone saw ark and karas as affordable–the demand spike was too much. I think it’s finally starting to level off, but probably not for long.
The issue is that the frag drop rate “increase” came along with an archstone removal from the most common contents, and in some cases even of the fragments themselves.
They removed fragment and archstone from the 4 uphill runs and removed archstone from dimensional collapse (11 runs per week via badge vouchers) and Misrus (5 runs back then).
The only avenue for whole archstones were the weekly raid cube (a single chance), Lepidoptera Hard (3 chances, unless you reroll) and Glacia Normal and Hard (same as above), with the addition of Lepidoptera Legend Solo later on (for higher difficulties only) and the change in the amount of runs for various contents.
This had two consequences. One is simply that the number of chances to drop sharply decreased - as 20 chances of dropping archstones from commonly done contents were outright removed.
The other is that most of the remaining contents that can drop fragments or archstones are end-game contents that only a portion of the playerbase does, so even if the chance of fragments in those increased…few players partake on it. And while you can have additional chances by rerolling, it’s often a waste of silvers (you are essentially gambling on a stroke of luck in doing so). Besides, given the rarity of those items, people are more likely to have to use them rather than being able to sell them. Thus it ends up with having few fragments in market that are sold at insane prices (over 90m right now per fragment on Fedimian).
So even if there was a drop rate increase, it was offsetted by the reduction of chances to drop, or it wasn’t high enough to permit people to complete their equipments after several months from the introduction (thus those fragments never saw the market to begin with)…
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IMC always releases new content and kills the old. An example was with Misrus that everyone did and today nobody does. Those who fail to make Tel Harsha on Stage 7 could try Misrus but no longer drop Arch Stone Frag.
And all or almost everything in the game today needs Arch Stone Frag or Arch Stone.
For me it was more difficult to get even an Arch Stone fragment.
Understandable. Just to lift your moral up, it’s super low chances anyway, don’t even bother and aim to get frag from those content (tel harsha, moring solo, hard raid). During misrus time and moring hard, those content just drop me one time arch frag. I get frag more from dcp than other content, out of hundreds and hundreds of run.
But, other than grinding dcp, singularity and slot machine grace, u just can grind cm for silver and buy from others.
I have never gotten a single arch stone ever since they released that item several months ago. I did Misrus weekly, DCP 11 with TU priests, etc. I ended up buying all six arch stones (4x for Karaliene and 2x for Ark) for 750m slivers each on the Klaipeda server. (This is the price after several weeks/months, and after most people already got their ark/etc crafted, and had some arch stone to spare to sell for extra slivers.)
Goddess Grace is probably the worst sliver sink and I refused to participate. I also knew someone who spent nearly 1+ billion slivers and still haven’t gotten a single arch stone from it. (Just bad luck i guess?)
Keep in mind this is when slivers are still available from field hunting. The majority of slivers that I gain all coming out from field farming in Baubas cave and Irredian Shelter after farming Challenge Mode with parties. Sometimes there would be a bot sitting around, which makes it even worst to farm slivers.
The worst part is probably farming Moth Talc powder, which I don’t have access to Hard Moringponia party during that time, so extra slivers are required to purchase those moth talc from market. (it was like 8m+ or something).
The Hard Moringponia solo version came along, which helps a lot with the prices (as of right now, going down to 2m-3m each). But this is still a lot of compare to the previous methods to obtain slivers (This is after sliver removed from hunting field).
Joint strike is nice, I wish they push this content much more early…
Anyways, the point is, the sliver removal patch hit hard on new/returning/casual players. I feel like IMC could have just reached out to the community for help to deal with the bot or finding alternative options to tackle with the issue instead of removing the slivers that could greatly benefit new/return/casual players.
a little bit correction here
sliv·er
/ˈslivər/
noun
- a small, thin piece of something cut or split off a larger piece.
at this point it’s better to save 5b silver for the next tier accessory than trying to buy arch stone for luciferi (oh wait we still have to buy arch frag for demon/goddess level 3)