Wolfman Wrote:Items depreciate in value all the time. A member of any class buys an item at a particular price and later something better comes along. You sell your original item usually at some loss and get the other item.
How do we know the Luk Bishops did indeed quit to become luckless? How do we know if the majority of the lukless ones now aren't new players or bandwagoners to the class due to its popularity? Also your statement was that the lukless Bishops will quit because they can't use the wands. This implies that they are at least level 130+ in order to use the wands in the first place. I can't see many people and certainly not 80%, quitting a level 130+ character of one of the easiest classes in Maple to level and boss with.
An item only depreciates in value if demand is lower than supply. Nexon controls the supply, and us players move the demand curve. It's not up to us really. Nexon controls prices and drop rates. They can very well make Ele Wands more common from Gach and lower their prices, but that would hurt the current balance of the game both in terms of mage vs. non mage class and Nexon's NX revenues from Gach. I can go deeper into it, but your analysis of their price atm is not deep enough.
I never once mentioned that Luk Bishops quit to become Lukless. Many I know started out with quitting another class and just starting a new Lukless Bishop simply because of the power that Ele Wands give them in terms of leveling speed. I don't see your point though in differentiating why people make Lukless. Right now what's at stake is whether or not they will continue it. Indeed, they have to be level 130 to use the Ele Wands. But level 120-130 for a Lukless Bishop is as easy as 1-2 weeks. If they (Lukless Bishops) continue this trend without an ele wand, and even if with Genesis 30, they will continue to 2 hit KO Skeles all the way until level 160. Now mind you, most Luk Bishops I've known already quit at higher 14x or lower 15x.
Just because you can happily 1 hit KO at 14x-15x with your Ele Wand doesn't mean Lukless Bishops will stand grinding up to 16x and (Luk Bishops 17x) without one to do the same.
And for the record, bossing is a side job for Bishops. They still spend 9/10 of their time training and 1/10 of their time bossing. HT runs are nearly extinct on my server. At CWK, not many Bishops are demanded. Zak runs are also at an all time low on my server and helm buyers are whispering me all day for referrals to other organizers.