9 Coke required now? (or other)

[Reika]

I was about to bring up that point Seuki, there are plenty of people from 1.0 that either hoarded the materials, or already have all the gear, or both. One person is selling two parts of 5 for 2mil. So for those people, what are they stopping? What are they preventing? I have already made myself a full set of heavy darksteel armor, so what did they prevent for me? Nothing. All they are doing is allowing those who did it all in 1.0 to stay ahead of the game, that is it. Overall, it was a bad Idea to raise the amount of Coke needed that far. As I said in the OP, once again, 3 or 4 maybe - leaning 3, but 9 is letting the horders stay the best geared or dominate the market by selling their hoarded mats.

This continues to be just an extreme no-thought last minute change by SE because they didn't plan for anything related to crafting gear. Just one of many, gathering attempts and delay being one of the others.

So, I am pretty sure you are fine with them making it take 9, since you have hundreds of them from when they were easily obtained. How is that any fair? Go forth and dominate the market, crash the economy while you're at it