So, you have spent hundreds of hours to max your crafting? Spent insane amount of gold to get the appropriate crafting set and major trophies? Made a GS 600 item with decent perks after burning a lot of azoth and high tier mats?
Thought you do not have to deal with gypsum and expertise? Too bad, you now need to level expertise to 600 for every item so you can upgrade it with Umbral shards all the way to 625. As if there has not been enough grind already.
Not to mention that all items below 599 are losing value so good luck making profit when you level crafting to 200.
Hey, we decided to not downscale crafted items next year, isn’t that great? Instead we just raise the maximum GS so your crafted items are still useless.
Without that, you could just buy gold rmt or ask a friend/join company of a popular-city that makes millions a week to buy you 600 gear, and then all you have to do is just use shards and be above everyone.
Like, that doesn’t make any sense.
Grinding GS does not take a lot of time. All my 5 slots are 590 and I am working on weapons and jewelry now. It is OBVIOUS that players that spent time grinding will be stronger than those who just spent gold.
You can RMT expertise bumps, that is really silly argument.
And levelling expertise fast is incredibly boring. Levelling it the fun way (for me) is incredibly slow.