Hello,
I would like to strongly suggest, if possible, could we please change the drops in the level 170 castle dungeon. From my experience I have seen the economy become flooded with these very useful items and in so it has ruined their value and the game for a lot of players, as they feel they cant progress. A lot of players use these dungeon drops to make money, so they can buy or make improved gear to continue in the game. The problem is now a lot of those items, if not all, are now worth next to nothing. People from the castle in my experience have even been known to delete a lot of the items because they already have characters full. I have seen a lot of price changes from the Clockworks server and from the Aibatt server but for arguments sake i will just use clockworks economy as a base to get my points across as its easier than swapping between them both.
A lot of items in this game have become simply useless or cosmetic, so there is only a small variety of useful items left worth grinding for to sell and make money.
#Floating Castle Issue
pale fulcrum
The main dungeons for farming good money include:
The Wilds level 65-80/ Savage Wilds level 65M-80M Dungeon - It is very good to sell Lusaka weapons as they last from level 75-75M(Master) and sometimes to level 120, so they are very sought after. This means the use of Crystal Lusaka from the Savage wilds tend to sell for less money and most players will just use Lusaka until Ancient 120M weapons to save money. It is also a waste of time to upgrade them as they are soul linked and its just not worth it to pay the money to unbind them, even if you plan to resell. The stats are powerful enough to do the job as clean. It also drops +12 HP, MP and FP necklaces, Gore (HP) would be the most likely to sell to non master level players, the others not so much. It also drops Demol Earrings +12 and Plug earrings +12, the demols will be most likely to sell as it gives additional damage for non master players, but again these prices wont be highly priced as its a low level dungeon. The savage wilds also drops Marksman, Adept and Defender set parts which are useful for selling also, but are rare drops that become easier to get dropped in higher dungeons. This is also a lower level dungeon and so there is a lot of competitive sellers so prices will go down on these items.
Volkane Dungeon level 112-120, Boss Red Meteonyker - This drops level 120 armor parts, Bloody Weapons(Mostly used for cosmetics) and STR, INT, DEX rings +18. which are all good for selling. The rings sell and earn the most money as they are good rings to buy as non master players and are very sought after. This dungeon also will one hit players, so please make sure to take into consideration of the cost of items they will need to just simply farm this dungeon. Drop scrolls, powerups, revival scrolls, party scrolls etc. As this will need to be taken into consideration when selling items.
Cursed Aminus level 115-121 Dungeon- This will be where players get there next big weapons from which is the Ancient level 120M weapons. These weapons, upgraded will last them all the way until level 155H(Hero) where they can get Yggdrasil weapons. In some cases the upgraded Ancient weapons are better than clean Yggdrasil weapons. I have personally used an upgraded ancient weapon all the way to level 170H. These Weapons drop way to much in the castle, I've seen them go from 15-25b each to now 2b and thrown into the vendor. This has killed any chance of people lower than the castle level to earn money and improve. As you can see this weapon lasts so many levels and to have that price drop so much is astounding and a very big problem to the economy's of each server. Especially as the 1 hand axes sell for the most and can be a rare drop in this dungeon, now people have characters full of them.
Rhisis Trail level 152-156 - In this dungeon you have a small chance to get Skeleton Devil Cloak drop, this usually sells well to players until recent years. These cloaks farmed here are soul linked once equipped, luckily though they can be unbound and are still worth reselling. You will lose the unbind money which is around 20-25b and to my knowledge, recently one was sold in clockworks for 35b and before the price dropped, it was 50-120b. The problem is that it is also available in the siege coin shop, and while these are Permanently soul linked to the user, it means people wont save up for the ones from the dungeon and will instead go the route of getting siege coins. This is good for those seeking a cheaper option but in later years is now also not helping in sales. In the recent Christmas events you were able to get the black and white SDC version which is tradable meaning people could pass one cloak around say 8 characters, instead of buying 8 different cloaks. As such it has decreased the value of the dungeon SDC item significantly. Please take into consideration the cost and amount of revival scrolls used for this dungeon as blue meteo loves to one hit, not to mention the expense of powerups, party scrolls drop scrolls etc.
Mars Mine level 155-172 - This is where a lot of players farm in the higher levels and the 2 Bosses of this dungeon will drop Yggdrasil Leafs, Spirits and Branches. The leafs drop less than the branches and spirits so you will also have to farm more bosses or you can use collector fields. You will need to leave your characters on for 24 hours straight and make sure you use a premium battery (Premium batteries are only available from cash shop). Then you will need exchange the items for mud, then every day you will need a level 150H+ character to exchange 1 mud for 1 leaf. As you can tell this can be very time consuming and expensive if you are trading perins for bcash to buy the batteries. You can then use these items to exchange for Yggdrasil weapons level 155 and Yggdrasil armour level 155. Only problem is, they aren't worth farming much because the weapons drop so frequently in the castle that they to are being sold for 2b in vendor. They used to sell for 35b-50b each. 2b is next to nothing when you take into consideration all the powerups, Jar, pills...etc. I think you would actually lose money on the weapons alone, simply because of how much they drop in the castle. You can still farm for the Yggdrasil armor sets but I'm just making the point that another very useful set of items are being taken away, from the already low amount of things to sell.
All of the other dungeons are mostly for cosmetic items. Except in the Cove Of Ancients Dungeon there is a very rare chance to get Demols +18, but its so rare that no one really farms them and the weapons are used for cosmetic reasons only. Cosmetic items can be sold but as you can imagine not as frequently and its specific to peoples personal style, they tend to not want to spend much money on an item they will transmute onto something else to look cool.
My suggestion will be to change the Ancient and Yggdrasil weapon drops for some more cosmetic items in other dungeons and to reduce the chances for all of those items to drop, a lot less than what they are now. Ankou's dungeon drops are a prime example of this, they went from selling at 35b-45b each down to 2b, the same as the Ancient and Yggdrasil. This is because of the Hp needed to tank Ankou and he sometimes spam stuns, which isn't fun but can be countered with the Mentalist de-buff skills. The drop rates are also bad from this dungeon and you also should take into consideration the cooldown time on this dungeon being 360 minutes. In my opinion cosmetics aren't needed to progression in the game , as its more purely to make their characters look better. With that Ancient and Yggdrasil weapons are something needed to continue playing and rightfully so in more of a demand, so they will sell a lot more often than cosmetics. You can see how having floods of them in the game hurts a lot of players that aren't castle level. While it helps people obtain the weapons for such a low price, it creates a sort of dead zone in the selling scale, that I think a lot of players will struggle with trying to gain the money to grow past these lower levels. People struggle as is but taking away 2 major sources of income, 3+ if you take into consideration all the cosmetic items, its making it nearly unplayable. With the amount of players, especially on Aibatt server, a lot of people will be undercutting prices as there will be to many farmers and items on the market.
Without a way for players to make money in these level ranges, I fear they will get stuck and stop playing the game, as these levels are the most important. High upgraded gear can be very expensive to buy off of other players reaching up to 250b-500b per sets or items. It can even be more money than that to make gear yourself, with the rates of upgrading. But is also needed to get past the mobs block rate as they level. So imagine all the players that have spent perins to make a tank character, as well as a damager and also a finisher. They have to gear these characters just to have a chance at these dungeons for little reward if any. As it currently stands i really don't see them making any money off these items. Sadly the damage is done and there are players who have accounts full of these items now, but hopefully if we do these changes in future years they will sell off all these items they have stored and eventually balance might be restored to economy's of each server. Obviously this wont fix all of the economy's problems but this is a very big problem I've noticed that has done the a big amount of damage in such a small amount of time.
You might also be thinking well wont using cosmetic items from other Dungeons also hurt the economy as those will be more frequently obtainable and less in price? and now those dungeons wont be farmed anymore?
I also have another idea on how to hopefully spark new life into those dungeons but that will be a different post.
Thank you for listening and I will look forward to any ideas or opinions. 
civic raptor
Hey! I totally understand your issue with this, however could you maybe use https://discord.com/channels/751016369516052550/1092436389494272113 ? Then we can keep the topics together 🙂
pale fulcrum
Oh sorry I did do a search for Castle drops but found non .. um how do I delete this ?
pale fulcrum
Yes please!
civic raptor
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