Quote Originally Posted by Tirian-Hammerfist View Post
Positives:

- Significantly increasing the cap on embers and motes (although one wonders why it wasn’t removed entirely for all 3 currencies)

Negatives:

- Increased cap likely to mean increased prices, with limited sources of embers
- Instance gear no longer converting to embers, reducing numbers of routes to get embers
- Trying to force players into buying black steel keys to open loot boxes
- Resetting the embers cap at every item level increase - this is just nuts. Fine if you want to reset at a level cap, but if you don’t want people to be able to immediately barter for new gear at a new update, why not put a deed requirement on the gear? (Like must completed raid t1, etc.) - this has worked before, so not sure for the reasons for changing it. This is particularly bad for those who are more casual, and who might have a couple of thousand embers stored up from one or two weeklies, but no more than that, meaning no access to newer gear (such as the upgraded off-handlers, for example).
- Getting rid of the barter between embers and motes, and motes and figments. I don’t get what the purpose of this is. Embers are the most valuable ones, so if people want to convert to get figments for cosmetics, or use them to bolster a lower level alts’ gear, what is the purpose in stopping them doing this?

A silly change like this is going to cost you all of the good will that you’ve managed to build up over the last few months through producing good content and improving communication. Sure, lag is a problem particularly at the moment, but I was generally quite positive about the game direction, until this was proposed.

Please get it straight in your heads that the way to get END GAME GEAR should be through playing the game, NOT THROUGH P2W LOOTBOXES.
Couldn't have said it better. It's sad - Raninia said they were looking at making monetization more "up to date with current standards". Unfortunately, they meant mobile game standards, not successful MMORPG standards.

And honestly, get rid of Figments if you're only going to make them available from lootboxes (cause festivals give you so few). Just put the cosmetic stuff in the store. At least you would get some small credit for being honest.