New Root Abyss Equip Drop

I'm sorry, but there continues to be almost nothing I see wrong with this change, at all. This change, whether intended or not, gives a lot of people access to gear they normally would not be able to obtain without spending a lot of money both in-game and on NX. The market for RA gear isn't going to suddenly just shrivel up. It's going to exist for quite some time, and it will get bigger before it gets smaller, because there's so few people in the game that don't have any.

Yes, I can agree the change to Empress as well was... not necessary, as Empress was already considerably cheap.

So what if there's even even a little bit more spent on NX? So. What. People are going to spend money on NX whether they've got end-game gear or not.

It kills any means of decent profit and it's pissing people off because once again we're back to the S>NX stage (Happens almost every 3 years when the power creep catches up and nexon suddenly wants everyone to catch up) which makes any profit within actually playing impossible even to those who invested a lot of money. I can understand your perspective, but the reason most players make these type of investments is to get above the power curve and make substantial profit without investing anymore.

Essentially players who are able to kill it and spent enough to be in this class of 'elite' make these large NX investments so they are self dependable simply by playing. They rightfully should be pissed, but at the same time this has happened twice before. (See HT 2008, Empress 2011).

What you see is an opportunity for casual players to get a damage boost, what you don't see is that damage boost is completely worthless as any boss you can fight now has worthless drops, making you even more dependent on NX than before.