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    GC Elite Gear - Alteration to Cost?

    Hey there! So... I was doing some math on Allied Seals.

    Currently, without touching A or S-rank Elite Marks (which, for some casuals such as myself, continue to try avoiding like the plague), a player can get 274 allied seals every single week. That's a very fair amount of seals to earn every week, and a lot of the items in the game are well within a reasonable price range of that (though I would actually argue that the AF2 gear is astonishingly low by comparison).

    Would it be possible to alter costs? Here's my idea:

    GC Elite Gear:

    Weapons - 1740 -> 1080 (4 Weeks)
    Chest/Legs - 1000 -> 540 (2 Weeks)
    Head/Hands/Feet - 600 -> 270 (1 Week)

    AF2 Gear:

    Chest/Legs - 40 -> 160
    Head/Hands/Feet - 30 -> 120
    Belt/Jewelry - 20 -> 80

    I mean ideally, I'd rather have GC Elite gear drop a LOT more than that, but that seems more reasonable to me. Every other item cost is fine. My only reasoning for wanting to drop the price on GC Elite gear is because all it is good for is glamours, and I would like very much to show off my patriotism without grinding this content every day for a month just for a single piece of gear that will likely never be used for its stats.

    As for raising the costs for AF2 gear, there are two reasons for that. First, it ensures people can't simply go out and buy full AF2 in a single week without either working really hard for it or doing a bunch of different content at once. Second, with how AF2 gear can now be turned in for GC seals, that will cause the value of certain crafting materials to drop like a stone. Which while good for crafters, may not be ideal for the game economy, especially when the 2.2/2.3 dungeons have their drops altered to increase priority of gear droprates over crafting material droprates.
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    Last edited by HakuroDK; 08-21-2014 at 07:47 AM.