2013-01-30, 02:55 AM
Alilatias Wrote:It does seem like Nexon killed drop rates for Master and below difficulty dungeons. While it appears that the gold selling sites are hurting like hell from this (gold prices literally doubled, if the blue birds and total lack of bots in town are anything to go by), it also seems like it's going to be really hard for new players to get into the game now since onyx lustre barely drops and normal/magic rank gear no longer drops at all. Although the effects on new players could be counteracted by making enhance-able versions of normal/magic rank gear purchaseable from shops for cheap.
Yes, standard dungeon droprates were majorly crapped on after last patch. I'm not sure if they've commented on it yet, and the maintenance announcement didn't mention it unless I'm mistaken.
It would be pretty surprising if this is to combat against the gold farmers, but if it's working I can't really complain. End-game doesn't appear to be affected by the changes, so at least there's no worrying there.