Increasing the amount of Powerful Fish needed to trade for 3 Elcyum is one of the dumbest things the L2 team has done to date. They call it a bug? And from what I've seen it's only because 100s of RMTs (real money traders) are using it to make "200bil a day". So they damn it for all the other players who were using it properly.

NCsoft truly free!? BAAAAH! Should be more like this...


This was posted on the official forums shortly after they made the change outlined below:
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Well… where to begin? First off, let me briefly tell you all my thoughts and first impressions of this game. I've been playing online games for over 15 years now and I find not much impresses me and allows me to play alongside my best friend and wife other than MMO's.
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