Why are APR's so heavily time gated?

Genuine question. Is there a reason why we're making APR's more locked behind voting only? (no more big nx cards, less aprs for event, etc etc).

I understand that HP challenges is being introduced, but it does not apply to those who are willing to invest into the game who want to progress to late game.

While i believe that reaching high hp goals should take a while, I dont believe it should be so heavily time gated, and should be instead able to work towards through means of grinding, pqing, and event grinding by participating in APR exchanges INSTEAD of raffling. The more you take away resources to work towards our goal, and instead lock it through voting does not sound very appealing.

• We lock ourselves from being able to experience gear progression, and instead play mage story until 2 years to immediately skip to timeless, pre-scrolled, nt, etc etc gear.

Is this playstyle the direction ML purposefully wants us to take?

 

So you're stance is that APR isnt as badly time gated as i stated above. Correct?

While i respect your stance, I politely argue that lately a ton of nerfs to obtaining nx has been occurring.

• For example, with the current patch of getting rid of the higher tier nx drops,
• as well as a surprising low amount of apr's given this summer event (which i argue summer is one of the bigger events).
• a lower frequency of nx 2x vote events, and many more,

I cant help but question if this is the direction we want to be going towards.

I do understand that most players can start playing normally way earlier than hitting your hp goal. however the damage is very minimal and i argue that if not for the kindness of friends and guilds, you Definity wont be accepted in boss runs higher than zak.

Either way, my interest is really just looking for clarification (due to recent changes involving decreasing the ways we can earn nx/apr) on if

decreasing the amount of apr/nx we can actually grind for, [thus leaning more towards a time gated apr obtaining approach] is the path we want to head towards.

 

well lets lower the half way point from 3.5 to 2mil flat. even lowering it, it takes about a whole year just for a character to be playable. Now while i agree that getting to level 155 is quite difficult for a casual player, for the more dedicated player who already has a bishop (able to speed up the leveling time) and wants to start making a bossing ranged attacker, a whole year of waiting seems very intimidating (just for a character to be playable).

anyways, as i said above:

Either way, my interest is really just looking for clarification (due to recent changes involving decreasing the ways we can earn nx/apr) on if

decreasing the amount of apr/nx we can actually grind for, [thus leaning more towards a time gated apr obtaining approach] is the path we want to head towards.

so id push this conversation back towards my main focus and ask you if you think this push towards a more time gated approach of obtaining apr/nx is appropriate.

 

lets say you had 280 int. even if you wash out all the int, by level 155 you'd still be missing out on the 495 level up ap you get.

anyways i really dont want this conversation to be about this, but rather if the direction of making obtaining apr's more time gated is the path we want to take