Im okay with pheon’s as long as they remove/significantly reduce the pheon cost for ability stones and tripod gear. Im okay with spending pheons on accesories, you know what your getting and can equip it right away, should always be an upgrade. When you spend pheons for stones/tripod upgrades your essentially spending pheons for a chance at an upgrade. This is predatory, but otherwise im okay with pheons on everything else
I just dont use Auction house to buy anything but once every month at most for my main when new stuff comes out.
I will not purchase any items on AH as i dont want to pay the 3-4k gold worth of blue crystals to buy pheons… just to buy 1k gold in accessories for an alt.
There needs to be a better way to get pheons. Until then no AH for me most of the time.
Also issue #2.
Relic ring selling for 200k gold is 25 pheons.
Relic ring selling for 20 gold is 25 pheons.
No reason to get anything for an alt due to that.
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Pheon prices for lower tier accessories are absolutely not fine.
Even the most expensive legendary stuff is like 5k at the most now and it’s 15 pheons per accessory. Stuff that everyone buys on alts for 333 is like 50g per accessory. And the pheon tax is like 6k gold.
Epic stuff for 9 pheons? Matchmaking in 1300-1340 range becomes harder than doing Valtan because noone’s an idiot to spend pheons on their low level alts.
There’s absolutely no reason for stuff to cost so many pheons on lower level.
KR has had years to build up their pheon stacks and they have hundreds of thousands of gold, all of them. So pheon tax isn’t much even though their crystals price is like 2.5k gold per.
But when pheon tax for legendary stuff is literall 1000% from the accessory cost, then we have a fucking problem.
Tripods are also a huge gold sink, but it’s stomachable because only whales gamble on +4 stuff, you just buy it and sell it back.
Ability stones are cancer.
Not to mention how for example I as a paladin simply must have two sets of gear or solo content is literally unplayable and that pleasure costs me 300 pheons total for two sets and couple attempts on stones before I get lucky enough.
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I love how the CM’s won’t touch this topic with a 10’ pole.
Not even a simple,”Thank you for the feeback. We’ll pass it along.”
I appreciate the idea of what pheons were intended for, but when it’s clearly not working in the west it needs to be changed or removed all together.