WUC's rapid growth, is it a problem?

[WUC=Weapon Upgrade Chip]

To clarify, this is all from EN Candus, I'm not aware of the US server's state but I've heard it's even worse

I wanted to get the communities opinion on this matter. Whether it's a problem or not.
Yes it is a player caused issue but I personally believe it has reached a point where even players are unable to do anything about it. With WUC's drop rates somewhat nerfed a while back, it has caused a huge amount of inflation with WUC's.

The easiest solution to this would be to reverse some of these nerfs that were made to WUC's drop rates, increase their availability. With this people would rely less on purchasing them from the player market, meaning these people constantly buying all WUC's and increasing their prices will be forced into decreasing prices otherwise no one will resort to purchasing them.

Normally I would just say it takes lengthy farming but going through GC, burning through both EP limit and EP vitamin limit everyday of the week has only managed to gain me 2 WUCs and 3 WUCs last week. Of course it does also rely on player luck but there is absolutely no alternative way to get them because I'm not spending 40-50 million Dz per chip, that's just rediculous.

It honestly concerns me, because the closer we get to primal these prices are just going to reach more and more rediculous heights. I hope something is done about it somewhat soon in the future and if something is done Gameforge needs to actually tell us the changes instead of ninja patches.

In advance thank you to anyone who contributes to this poll.

Quote from Galpatchie

With all the options you made, i just had to choose last option for the giggles. Sorry, couldn't restrain myself.

On serious note, option ''no it's a player caused issue so players should come up with a solution or stop being lazy '' is just in genuine. Should at least make it ''no, inflation is naturally/unnaturally occuring and no action should be taken'' or smth around those lines.

True it does happen naturally but it isn't healthy for a certain few members who have purchased dz etc ruling over prices on the market. It practically makes every other player have to bow down to these few people

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You can clear content fine with +6 weapon. Also lv40 Level-Up-Box gives x3 WUC. Dont expect gameforge to lock-in prices just like BDO.

Well if you had actually read the suggested, they dont have to directly hit prices by price locking, they can simply increase their availability to people who are playing on lvl 55 chars. higher drop chance etc, it means people have to rely less on the market. This will cause them to not be so highly priced because their demand will drop after a week or so

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Your poll is really not objective please add a No : i am a trader player and i want to make benefits

Im not a whale cause i dont have money to waste in this game.

By the way they cant just "fix price at market place" because a CoMa already answered us in the french section to tell us that this will never happened due to the work needed to make a static price that based on the economy of the server

But yes give us NPC affinity so we get more dismantling chance for WUC or makes it easier to get in grutin cubes or on bosses

Or events i dont know

This will definitly be a good idea

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Well I'm sorry if you're an different but every 'trader player' I have met is just another way of saying they want to control the whole market and other player by purposefully increasing prices. Even if you are a trader player who's plays mostly for the trading aspect, if you honestly think this rapid inflation is healthy you're extremely blind and may as well be categorised as a whale.

But yes I am aware they cant directly tackle it via fixed prices, instead just increase their availability so the demand is a lot lower, it will force these prices to drop

JasonTodd I agree it is really sad because the way its harming the community is honestly disappointing. There's no efficient ways to farm WUCs so most average players hit +6 or +7 and basically don't bother going any further so players either give up or don't get to experience fully what the capabilities of +9 weapons are other than these whales.

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i do hope NA follows after KR's footprint

and put Energy Converter into Cash Shop

if so, put WUC into Cash Shop too

i seriously do not want to spend 120mil in an attempt to upgrade once from +6 to +7 ...

40mil a piece for WUC D:

On the KR version they supposedly fixed the drop rates to make them farmable so hopefully in the near future they shouldn't be such an issue (WUC)
However yes ECs it would be nice to have in the cash shop as a seperate option.
I've farmed the past couple weeks doing LC and IC maxing my EP and after all of that have still never had a single EC to drop... I've only had 2. 1 I bought for 70 mill and the other I farmed 28k BP >.>

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I feel like I'm the only current lucky one (which is rare any guild member can confirm that)
I got 2 WUC from a grutin box, that is basically 2x Last Carnival Raid Runs...

Not sure if its a mild improvement from before but, previously personally never got a single one. Still trying to go +6 lmao..

It does also bring player luck in, yes. But overall the drop rates are rather awful

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I feel like I'm the only current lucky one (which is rare any guild member can confirm that)
I got 2 WUC from a grutin box, that is basically 2x Last Carnival Raid Runs...

Not sure if its a mild improvement from before but, previously personally never got a single one. Still trying to go +6 lmao..

It does also bring player luck in, yes. But overall the drop rates are rather awful

I play on EN server, my drop rates are the worst in my guild including Akasha cards.
Sometimes when I run raids (when I do play) Its so bad.. like dirt poor bad type of stuff.
Playing as lilly I need crit gear n etc~ what do I get? Defence, evade & other stuff which isn't helpful.

Thats why I was moderately shocked I got that.. but (\o.o/) thats only todays experiance

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I feel you, out of my friend group and guild my RNG is flat out trash it's so hard to progress

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You can clear content fine with +6 weapon. Also lv40 Level-Up-Box gives x3 WUC. Dont expect gameforge to lock-in prices just like BDO.

As clear as he/she said, all contents right now are doable with +6 weapon, just think of this, if everyone won't buy the thing the price will decrease, because right now, everyone are being fooled by those who keeps increasing it's price and for now best thing to do is to calm down and enjoy your +6.

People don't want to do that though. People want to save up on weapon chips to max out a primal weapon so they can fully experience what the game is like with such a weapon. Otherwise we may if they are going to be that unreachable they may aswell just remove +7-+9