what??? I have 178 right now.
I stopped playing end of february when elden ring came out, i was like 1080.
I just came back 3 weeks ago, did I miss events, is that why I only have like 200
yep like every vendor every event.
5 slot each “trash relic” is 25 then sprinkle few for rngstones on top of it
well fk me
It is intentional. Pheons are top selling items since start.
And yes, pheons and rocks shouldn’t be in the same sentence because its an item that becomes untradable and has a high probability of breaking which causes it to become obsolete, and that’s when the pheons hurt
some rng stones you rolling 20 of them?
The reason of implementing pheon system so people cant rmt. So useful! now you see players walking around with their 1500+ character with no alts 50+ roster lvl. perfect!
5 slot 25 each slot for relic piece is 125 in total then ADD FEW stones on TOP OF THAT
Also think about ability stones being items which are frequently bought. People have to convert gold to crystals while that to sone degree balances out the demand from people buying crystals to convert them to gold.
Ok man you do you. don’t many how many builds you wanna try out.
the reasoning is they want real money to be generated by gearing up. Its not about gambling, or one time purchases, or flipping. It assures they make more money off F2p players, and provide value to whales crystal product even when they have nothing interesting to sell in the store.
Short version, its in the game for monetization purposes, not game design. It actually impedes the game design and makes playing the game at a high end worse, since it makes it harder to be flexible with builds based on content, or desire. It makes playing multi characters worse. Its just all around bad for game design facets
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Is there a limit to man’s curiosity
and im not talking about 1 engrawing swap but whole setups with non meta stats… excatly the stuff one could name “trash”
Why with relic jewerly are you running 5x3 on a “trash” set? you know you can test out how it feels in the training room
It’s called a scam. Pheons have no use in the game other than making you buy them from the Cash Shop. Items already reduce their tradeable amount which dictates their price naturally, as well as some being bound like your OP points out.
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They cost Pheons because if they wouldn’t cost Pheons then those players who have 400k gold in their bank would buy every single one of the stones you would even consider buying and they would put them back on the market for an extra price
However what makes this whole Pheon market messed up is that they’re tied to Crystals which means that when bots and RMTers almost tripled the price of Crystals, you would pay an extra fee of 1,4k for each 15 Pheon extra on an accessory, so it was not an option to buy even budget accessories for your alt accounts
EDIT: Not bumping for an obvious bump attempt:
Buy cheap, sell expensive = profit
How do you figure
Flipping stones? Seriously?
I believe the main goal of pheons is to create a constant demand for blue crystals. Take out pheons and there isn’t a steady demand for blue crystals. It used to be Mari’s shop but that’s only at the start of the game before the economy settles in. Skins are once a month max and that’s only assuming you want that month’s skin
I wish we got more pheons. Already bought 200 pheons and need to buy more 
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I will write this out for you in case you don’t get the other remarks about your statement from the other players.
Ability Stones can not be flipped because they are bound on purchase.
Thank you.
I hate the pheon system and it makes playing alts less enjoyable because you get cucked by the stupidly high prices for accessories regardless if they cost 30 or 30.000 gold.
It also makes it more painful to play with other people’s alts because some people are not ready to invest 10k + just for pheons to gear them which makes Yoho, Argos P1 , P2 a nightmare experience.