Ya, thanks for lying to us again AGS/Smilegate
Thanks to the mass ban of bots around the timing of the Argos update and the removal of early-game gold that attracted them in the first place, we’ve seen a steep decline in bot activity
ANYONE actually playing this game knows this statement is an outright lie. There are more visible bot now than before this supposed bot ban.
Well I never seen such as greed in any game I played so far so I am bit sceptical.
Just few examples. Reduced gold reward in abyss dungeons, getting 100 gold in all T2 dungeons is super weird, then the gathering on the limit, then the honing chances in T3. Everything is just made to make you use store and curency exchange. (well I did spent a lot it works on me, but its so annoying)
I will admit I have seen no decline in active bots. Not the part I was happy about.
why do you care about whats my ilvl is and what i wanna do?
Define “huge injection”, will it be enough for 1370?
Well the new patch better be good. I dont even care about Argos I am at dead zone selling mats and wating for honing buff. I play still a lot my alts and there is still plenty of stuff to do.
But game lost 300k players in week and that should be wake up call for AGS.
I don’t care about your ilevel, nor did i ever imply anything of the like.
That was a direct result of the bot bans, look at the charts, it didn’t happen in a week, it happened over night, the night of the last patch.
You don’t need to hit 1370 in a single day, just so you know.
Now, just define huge injection for me please.
For what it’s worth, I’m pretty hard stuck at 1365, We had the honor stones as a login reward today, and I had other stones. I think I rolled between 8-10 times, failed them all. It sucks. I want to do Argos. I’m just happy that they are doing “something”. I will see how this goes. I get it, it really sucks at the moment.
Why I was excited about this announcement, which based on their schedule is out of the blue. Although expected, because of outcry
Term huge is subjective but we will haveve different avenues, from what i remember from the top of my head after reading the wall of text:
-PVP vendor
-Increased Grand prix rewards, which already gave good amount, it’ll give more.
-Casual Guardian thing…
-Honing books from Grand Prix, whch translates statistically to a mat decrease requirement.
yeah, what I took from it was they were going to look at making horizontal content to get mats viable instead of needing alts. They never claimed this was the ultimate solution, but will work in that direction. That IS good news.
150/400 t3 stones/week is a good amount? 
When the END-GAME is locked at 1370… Yeah I kinda do, I don’t wanna spend weeks just doing my 3 dailies, 2 chaos, 2 guardians every day while sluggin through the shittiest honing rates made to make you swipe to actually do it.
Lost Ark isn’t a social MMO at all, its a mmo made for its end-game and nothing else.
yeah and u swap on garbage alts cause they refuse to release every classes so, nothing to enjoy
Yes! Finally, a right step in the right direction. Keep it up AGS we love to see this game succeed as much as you.
Good stuff by AGS!