The community needs to stop inflating these pricesā¦ itās bad on them for making the market this awful in the first place.
Its not up to AGS or Smilegate to fix this issue, that has literally been in every mmo in existence, you wanna fix it make a support.
I stopped upgrading all my dps chars, they are parked at 1370 bar my original main, now I only push pally, bard and gunlancer, classes that are actually useful.
I will start support with artist
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Well thats great, but it wont solve the issue, this is just an opportunity for artist players to push their agenda of releasing the class, and I dont blame you.
Iāve got a 1385 ready to be launched to 1415 if someone wants to fund me. I work weekends only and will commit to raiding up until the clown raidās release.
i ll play a bard if i get a fully geared one at 1415 for free, else i cba gearing one
not my playstyle to main sorry 
make a pass like that which you can only use on bard or pala, maybe that would help
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the problem isnt community inflating the prices. The reason it is inflating because of shortage. All the support build items are very hard to get. Also because honing rates are very bad at 1340-1370 even if u research the 10% buff. They really need to buff the rates higher especially we get higher ilvl content, so the problem is catch up mechanics are bad. Sure we get events to help out, but they arent good enough when honing rates are around 15%-45% like the rates drop really hard at each point.
There is also the huge fact getting budget gear for supports is costly cause of Pheon cost doesnt scale depending of the cost of the item makes people doesnt wanna play support even more.
It wouldnāt solve it BUT IT WOULD MAKE IT BETTER
How much better will it be ? Is everyone going to push/main support as soon as Artist releases ? Itāll still be a minority (myself included as a support main), right now weāre roughly 3 to 4 out of 5 parties without a support, maybe that might bring it down to 2 to 3 out of 5, but itāll still be a HUGE problem.
This is exactly what I said before, we really need the honing buffs man. THERE Are people still not even 1415 on their mains, so they canāt even gear up their alt support because they have to push their main to 1415 first. Why AGS is so greedy thereās still 25+ gear that whales are going to whale anyways.
Players always asking for things:
- Release Argos
- Donāt release Argos
- Give me Honing buff
- Give me more power pass
- Give me another powerpass for Support
- Release Valtan
- Donāt release Valtan
Itās always the same forum players, just take a look at the posts they write.
Iād say it again: If you want a Support START ONE, this is a player issue, itās the same in Korea and AGS/Smilegate doesnāt have or can fix it for you.
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yeah let me spend 3~4 months grinding my butt off to get to 1415, by the time you actually reach these levels the fade will probably be dead and you just wasted time and effort over nothing
itās almost as if the forum has players with different opinions 
I think the middle ground here is, if you keep dying donāt run grudge/cursed doll.
Also, if people wanted to play Support they would be playing Supp, same as the ones that wanted Glaivier and saved their farm for Glaivier and the ones that wanted Destroyer and are already 1415+ with Destroyer.
You NEED a Support but you dont WANT to play a Support, and you believe Artist release or a Powerpass will fix the issue.
Artist will just make the players waiting for Artist that are already playing other class to switch to that, but most of those players are the current supportss in game.
No one playing a DPS main will switch to a Supp main, those playing DPS are doing it because they want to main DPS, but they donāt notice they are the issue and they are victims of a problem they created themselves, while the only thing they are doing to prevent it is SPAM the forums for unrealistic petitions like support events, honing buffs and such.
This issue is like bots, here to stay and if you really want to do something about it you should start a Support instead of starting yet another post like this.
nah! they are crying about that smilegate need to relase x and y dps class atm.
Few of them dont even grasp that while need top notch gear and engraving as dps (right class too) to be invite to pug.
Then they come to forums complain that they never get invite.
Everytime I do a pug group Im picky af because I can be, nice huge pool of dps to choose from 
Those āI give you Gold if you joinā are the biggest baits.
If you have an above average group with people 1450+ and everybody stacked out with 3/3/3/3 engravings you will easily get your supports. The ones paying you to join are 3/3/1. Iād rather join a group that has XP and oneshots the boss than wasting hours in early P2 for gold.
Ya, probably the dumbest thing Iāve ever seen in an MMORPG. There is a model that has been used for ages and everyone enjoysā¦lets ruin that and let everyone pretend to be dps, but these guys arenāt full DPS, they are supportsā¦their dps sucks and they are boring.
Oh, so now itās not about encouragement. Itās about free stuff. Got it.
KR is still short with artist so i dont think theres a fix unless you force your guild mates to main supports.