I understand why this was in place at the beginning of the game. But with Valtan in a month or so, the drop amount of guardian/destruction crystals+ great/honor leapstones from chaos/guardians in T3 need to increase. Especially since the game devs have no plan to increase honing rate.
All the gold sink features of the game are the same as KR Version that has had gold inflation. And yet, NA version has nerfed drop rates of honing mats and un-nerfed version of honing rate. This is basically game devs telling us to fuck off and open our wallet if we want to play this game. Literally bad game design imo.