Got to say I'm loving it, game was way too easy now it's just right. I've not been proper levelling in ages because I was losing any sense of achievement, because anyone could do it without any real effort. Now it's actual work to grind good exp I feel enthusiastic to get back into my rhythm again!
About the pots dropping less, again I think this is a rewarding thing. Before it barely made any difference if you had good kit or shop kit, you could kill stuff and just pick up as many pots as you needed along the way. So a lot of people could hunt no problem in full exp sets and just pick up more pots and it was fine. Now with less pots about on the floor, having a solid kit is actually beneficial again.
Great changes Scorp!
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Another thought, about not finding as much gold. I've seen the price of gold bars dropping from around 35 less than 6 months ago, now recently I've seen them sell as low as 25. Gold bar price is always a solid indicator of how much gold there is floating around, when bars are cheap, there's too much gold and GM will likely make changes to reduce that by cutting back on ways to make gold and/or making things you buy with gold a bit more expensive. There are still a massive amount of bars on the market, and these recent changes will make the number of bars hitting AH and stalls drop a bit and it will push the prices up until they stabalise at a more reasonable level. Remember when they used to sell for 45gg? Anything less than 40 seems cheap to me in the grand scheme of things.
There may be alot of gold in the game which only Scorp will see but you purely going on the GG price of a goldbar does not show the full picture as many people dont want to either have to buy or gain gg in order just to get gold for general items.
As for 40 GG been too cheap for 10mil gold again that doesnt seem to fit as thats equalivant of £5.96. So repairing one of my items costs like 5mil (yes i know your gonna say buy a dura pot) but if i wanna play the game as intended without the use of GG and purely using gold that I hunt from mobs or items I would have to do about 2-3 leveling trips to repair one item each time i do one of these trips i burn more dura on other items and before you know it i have to repair all kit with no gold to repair it as the gold drops aint there.