How do you not see this as entitlement?
I play this game every day and all day and I should have what I need to enter the new content!
Say it out loud, see how it sounds. Just because you play the game every day and all day, doesn’t mean you’re ENTITLED or owed anything.
You think you’re the only one who plays every day and all day? I know I play every day and all day but don’t go around saying that I should have what I need.
On islands? Most of my T3 mats come from either the Market, Mari’s, with Pirate Coins, and Bloodstones. I do a lot of trading on the Market to make gold. Everything I can sell, I generally do. I did Armored Nac and Igx once and both Abyssals once, the second one we didn’t even clear because the Berzerker face tanked everything from Albion and the Paladin was running a T2 DPS build, in T3.
I’m at 1348 and that is fine by me. Abyss Trials, Heroic Guardians, whatever else is missing, I’ll try it once but it’s 100% not going to be where my mats come from. Cubes, Tower, all of that, still haven’t done them because doing the T3 version of those is kind of a little hard on a Bard, especially by yourself.
The problem is is that people want it NOW. They want it now and they want to get there easily with an abundance amount of materials, the typical stereotype of abundance culture in western society. People don’t know how to improvise, how to work around it. Mats missing? Figure out a way to get it. Done all your Mari’s? Exhausted the supply with Pirate Coins? Even buying things completely unrelated to mats to make gold to buy mats? It all takes effort but people don’t want to go through the extra effort yet still want it. In fact, demand it and stomp their feet like children until it’s done.
Who cares if the other regions have this or that, we have this. If you like that region with what they have and what they got, honestly, go play there. Because obviously, it’s TOO HARD to play on NA/EU. That’s what people are saying when they say there isn’t enough mats.
People can’t even learn basic mechanics for T1 to T3 encounters yet complain about not being able to do Argos. Something as simple as opening up Maxroll to read a guide for less than 10 minutes on how to do an encounter and what to expect. And even if they didn’t learn the fight, pressing spacebar to dodge something or kill an add. Or you know, having Party/Raid chat open to see any comms. Or listen for any pings. Basic things in an MMO world and this is a first MMO for a lot of people.
Fun is subjective. I find spinning my boat in circles fun. I find dressing up as an egg and running around asking people if they want to crack me open fun. Collecting Mokokos is fun to me. I am often very low on Pirate Coins because I find collecting the cards fun because they make my numbers bigger in the Card Catalog. I even find standing in one spot reporting bots and clearing the block list multiple times fun.
And if you want more things to do at 1340+, have you looked at your main’s setup? Still have T2’s? Gems fine? Have gold? Have silver? Tripods okay? Quality up to par? Adventure islands, Chaos Gates, Virtues, everything all good there? More than 330 Skill Points at least? Exhausted your rested if any? Did the event? Buy out the event? Una’s? Una’s on alts?
A lot of that stuff, people don’t want to do. Then they say, “No content!” or fill it by parroting it with something that some streamer or YouTuber said.
Who cares if people at 1370+ are doing Argos. I don’t care if they’re doing it. Let them enjoy the game and you find what’s enjoyable to you. Sorry they’re at a higher item level than you for you to enjoy the game. Sorry if they swiped and they got their gear buy purchasing the mats like how you could from the market. Their item level does not affect your item level or even my item level. It’s not like you guys are buying anything off the market anyway because evidently, mats are too scarce.