Even with upgrading a weapon to 522 this week it would cost me 2700 flightstones to upgrade just the legendary weapon next week. This cost seems a bit absurd moreover when the cap doesn’t even go this far. This is one of the bad case but other items also need to be upgraded from normal up to mythic which make the cost of flightstones way higher this season with very rare items and legendary items requiring even more investment. At minimum I feel removing the cap could help alleviate this but it is still a huge amount of flightstones.
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If 1 item is going to cost upwards of 5k to upgrade, the cap needs to be massively increased, like 10k or 20k at minimum. The cap is actively harmful and has no reason or purpose to existing, but certainly if the gear and crests you can acquire within 1 week are enough that you could enter into the week at the 2k cap, and still not have enough to use the crests or items you gained thru that week before running out, it just means the cap needs to be higher. There isnt really a reason for flightstones to exist at all when crests are already sufficient.
They turn what should be positive experiences > new gear, higher item level, yay
into negative ones > Not enough flightstones, cant use the gear i earned, cant get the power increase out of the item i earned, now i have to “re-earn” the power increase AFTER getting the item, making me do twice the work and more chore activities instead of just letting me experience the cool upgrade immediately. This is the same reason reforging was removed, except instead of fixing your stats at an npc in <5 minutes, you now need to do 30+ minute activites to acquire enough flightstones to use your new items
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Either the cap needs to increase drastically, be removed, or sources that are objectively more difficult need to be giving mass amounts more than they currently are. We are already capped by crests, flightstones feel like just another layer of “oh wait, I can’t actually make this yet I have to grind and grind and grind a currency that drops pennies at a time because I already hit the cap once.”
3 Likes
Flightstones as a system doesnt make sense anymore. They were originally an artificial gate. You already have that gate in the form of crest caps per week. Why do we need ANOTHER barrier/hurdle?
This is also supposed to be the “Victory Lap” season. Nobody want to spend their victory laps grinding +2’s for Flightstones anymore. They havent since Season 1. The currency needs to go. No increases to gains or cap raises. No boosters or bonus awards for them. Just get rid of the toxic system that serves legitimately no real or unique purpose. The weekly crest cap covers everything flightstones could cover in a better way.
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