The point of the damage cap?

I don't see how that's relevant to my argument. If you re-read my post, I said the potential system is currently broken, it need's touching up. The problem is, the very weapon you show me probably wouldn't be a common piece end game gear if

1) It couldn't be duplicated
2) Mts didn't fund thousands of dollars worth of NX.

The point is, although the potential has a high reward with a high cost, hacker's completely took away the cost for the reward and passed it along. Now that nexon is cleaning up, it's even more expensive as the items become more limited and it becomes even harder to replicate those items.

Your point is pretty hypocritical. You're complaining that the hackers took away the cost of the reward (pot) by duplicating it, and giving it to everyone. Then you go on to complain that Nexon cleaning up makes the items more limited, and it's harder to replicate them? As you already said, "potential has a high reward with a high cost". So if the duped items are more limited, in your earlier perspective, that would be a good thing as everyone's paying loads for that type of gear. But then you somehow implied that having these items be "limited" is a bad thing, as it's "harder to replicate them". Well, obviously. You'll actually have to cube it yourself now, which means you'll pay at least around 5-6x more than the duped cost. And it's not "harder to replicate" when Nexon created those new cubes that increase the chance of making more than 1 Legendary line on a Legendary equip, rather than having 1 Legendary Line with 2 Unique lines.

The point about duping reducing Nexon's profits has always been a moot point. Yes, the MTS did concentrate thousands of dollars of NX into the hands of the dupers, and let them have items for far less than their legitimate cost. But it also did increase the average standard for damage, which is another reason why people actually started buying 38 atk VSS and 301 cravens. My point is, had duping not been there, would the money "lost" from people buying duped equips and not buying their CS equivalents, actually have been spent? If the damage standard wasn't raised that much for the norm, because everyone has the same equips, would there be that much demand to upgrade equips? My thinking is no, Nexon actually made more profit off of everyone buying duped gear, than removing them from the get-go, which is why they stalled on their actions against them until market saturation came into play.