2009-05-19, 04:29 AM
Kabanaw Wrote:I did go spend $20 right when Ele weapons came out to try for one. Since then, I never have. The fact of the matter is that nowadays, chances are you're not going to get one. I haven't known anybody who's gacha'd for Ele Wands at NLC since their release.
The problem I have with a Bishop buying the multi-colored wands is that by doing so, AMs who have much more of a use for them can't get them. If ele wands were common, I'd have no problem with it. But since they're so rare, it makes it much harder for AMs to get the weapons.
If there was a famine, and there were only 10 loaves of bread and 10 people in a store, is it fair if one person buys half of them just for themselves?
But we're arguing about one case here. I know that most Bishops just buy 1 wand and then go back to training.
What I really want is just a reply. Even if I don't get my way and there's no damage reduction, I'd be upset but I wouldn't quit because of it.
You know how many actually do this? Barely any, so please stop characterizing even a reasonable portion of the population like that. Bishops are characterized as some 50-70% low luk/luk, and 30-50% lukless. Of the lukless ones, we'll be fair and say half of them are reasonably funded or sell leech. Of that, maybe half or 2/3rds will consider an Ele wand, and out of that we have what is basically some 2-5% of the entire bishop population actually owning any of the lvl 130 ele wands. You keep telling me that bishops leech and thus are able to purchase it through leech money, yet, to get this weapon, a bishop would have to leech 100+ hrs at skelegons to fund it, and thats if they sell for enough to defray pot costs. Even the power leechers that do some 14hrs on weekends will need a month or so to save up for this.
Furthermore, the money/stat ratio to upgrade these things is hardly the best one out there. A decently scrolled Lvl 64 maple weapon will sell for some 100-150Mill and have some 100+ stats or so. A CRAPPY Ele wand 6 or 8 will sell for 600-700Mill,a nd will have maybe a 40-50Stat increase at best over the maple weapon. Thats some 550Mill for a 40 stat boost, which comes out to 10M/stat. Again, I can find a list of things that can be upgraded for cheap compared to these, and therefore it can be argued that this is an END GAME upgrade for bishops, whereas archmages buy this FIRST. What this means is that only the most wealthy of bishops would ever consider buying one of these, whereas most will be content with a shield/cape/earring upgrade instead. More to the point, it only really matters when you're about to 1hit skeles anyways (since who the heck would be thinking of buying an ele wand first if they can't 2hit 'em), incidentally meaning that Genesis would be maxed, which is another financial hurdle to overcome.
This all boils down to a very small sect of bishops that are able to purchase these wands, and yet we're going to say that they have no right to use them? This isn't a food shortage; its a luxury shortage. It's more comparable to the Hilton running out of caviar than it is to hungry masses running out of bread because this isn't a NECESSITY. Archmages won't keel over and die if they don't have a wand, and if they really wanted the 25% bonus, it doesn't exactly kill them to buy 1-4, which presumably few if any bishops would ever be "collecting" or using. Therefore, this is a WANT, not a NEED. A NEED can be justified as requiring extraordinary conditions from Nexon, but a WANT is simply just a desire for a desireable outcome. Yeah, it'll help mages if they can 2hit or onehit earlier, but they won't be unable to play the game without them, which is a fallacy that many people are making at this point. If Nexon really thought that these things SHOULD go to archmages because they need them, the droprate for them would be much higher, or they would drop from mobs. That they are instead a rare gachapon drop suggests that this is indeed a luxury, and the availability of luxuries is dictated by a market. Bishops that purchased their wands owe absolutely nothing to archmages because they purchased them at market value. There was an equality of opportunity there for archmages to purchase them as well, but then again, none of you are terribly interested in 6 and 8 in the first place.