Hi. In this post, I will get severely flamed. Here it goes:
Why is it that e-bayers insist upon ruining the game for the rest of us? I am being honest, I am afraid of S-grade. All of you people with plussed up Draconic Bows and what not have e-bayed. You will whole-heartedly deny it, but let's be frank. Let's say that the average SSA on Teon costs about 120 adena. Assuming you play a class such as a Treasure Hunter, or another DD, you will probably take on average 8-10 hits to kill a non-catacomb mob, and 15-20 hits for catacomb mobs. The total soul-shot cost for non-catacomb mobs comes to around 1,080 adena per mob, and catacomb mobs come to around 2,040 adena per mob. Let's be generous and say that catacomb mobs (where most people hunt) drop 7,500 adena. That comes to a profit of 5,460 per mob. Now let's look at the average clean Draconic Bow's cost of (on Teon) 950,000,000 adena. Making 7,500 per mob, you will need to kill almost 130,000 mobs without spending any additional adena. That's irrational, but let's say you somehow do this. I have seen +7 Draconic Bows go for around 2,000,000,000 adena. That means you have to kill almost 270,000 mobs. Again, this is illogical, you will reach S-grade long before this happens. I don't even want to know how much people spend on buying armor sets, also.
So, here is my point. Botters and E-bayers are controlling the market. If the first E-bayer never bought adena, the prices for S-grade weapons and armor sets would be drastically lower. You e-bayers have ruined the game for we legitimate players, who have to struggle just to keep up with the market. It's not fair. It really hurts the game. I think that something should seriously be done to stop this. Just to further my point, a google search for "Lineage 2 Adena" returns nearly 500,000 results. This is ruining the game. NCsoft, do something about it.