Sweetpatch

The only one who benefits from the nodestone drops are the people who

1ko a full mob of monsters
have frenzy totem
top tier item drop % potentials

there are people that can do all those 3 things and they get a whooping 75+ nodestones and 10-20 arcane stones in a 2-4 hour 2x drop event.

My opinion? I find that unfair for the unfunded, like a slap in the face to the low range players who are back to the game or existing players trying to make themselves stronger in the game. But it seems that the benefit is for the elitists that now sells tons of pieces for 200m+ each since they have too many of the nodestones that can even use for selling and using for their own. Conclusion? This is making the already godly funded players even more rich as well creating an abysmal gap between the top players and the returning/lowfunded players.

I agree that there should be a way that even low range players could benefit of also getting a decent amount of nodestones. Like a daily quest? a pq? more events that gives nodestones? making monsters drop some node fragments pieces to compensate for the whole nodestone rare drop rate? I'd like more nodestone events. Those were nice and everyone could obtain nodestone fragments daily. As for the arcane symbols, its quite nice there is a daily quest to obtain them!

Meh, I got to 2m range with a full free to play aran simply through time and effort. You have to put in either time and effort or money it's your choice. End game content is always catered toward the funded people because they would have no other reason to stick around or spend any more money. You can see this through the new regions being released and the difficulty of new endgame bosses.

Post Patch Commerci is bugged?
Trying to enter Commerci from dimensional portal gives me message which says I have not completed the prequest
I know I have completed the prequest I have run commerci for months now
Sweetpatch
Aran
Level:215
2:50 P.M. 12/15/2016

To say the least I have been disappointed with the changes to the santa box post patch. All my friends and guildies were having tons of fun farming the boxes and being able to buy the things form the shop which we wanted. Everyone joked about farming as many coins as possible before nexon came in and messed things up. I was hopeful that Nexon would get it right this time, but time and time again they make changes which are hugely unpopular with the community. I feel that the nerf of the santa boxes runs directly contrary to their recent mission of "A Better Maple". Seeing as how all the items in the shop are untradeable and mostly aesthetic it makes no sense to limit the number of coins per day. It seems like there is no point in having so many items at such high prices in the shop if we are not even allowed to farm enough coins to buy 1/3 of them. I honestly don't see any downsides from either nexon or the players the way the drop rate was pre patch. I guess I expected too much.

Update: 7:30P.M. Pacific 10/31/2016
I completed my last two commerci runs with no trouble.
The cause of disconnects may have been related to server reset or 2x event.

I didn't mean for this to turn into hating on the event. I thought it was a cool idea just unfortunate we weren't able to experience it fully.