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So out of just wanting to know...I decided to pull an all nighter. I ran around and killed dathomir in many ways. Then around 5 I decided to call it a night and log. However, I didn't log. I went to the NS stronghold cave, stood right where Axkva spawns, and ran a macro to keep the game from logging me. I went to sleep and my char stood there from 5 AM to 3 PM. Nothing. So unless someone else can offer a different explanation, Axkva Min is gone. I hope this gets the attention it deserves. This makes it impossible for your pikeman on a normal income to ever get a NSEL. And when people find out about this...you think NS armbands are expensive...I could see NSEL's going WAY up. But that wouldn't happen for a while.

So for someone that doesn't have money and doesn't have one, this just about removes the NSEL from the game for them. This issue needs immediate attention.

While I'm all for keeping what I have a prized rarity, of course, a major high-level NPC that never spawns except after publishes is ridiculous from any angle. Also think about those who would really love to get their hands on one. Now, the only way to get one is to pay someone who camped Axkva previously, keeping other people from having a shot at it, some ultra-exorbitant price simply because now the system itself doesn't give them an opportunity.

The price will not keep going up forever, it is near the point right now where it's barely worth the high price. It's not that useful, and people will only pay so much for something that just looks cool.

antares

Message Edited by antares_Kauri on 11-20-2004 06:10 PM

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Kreagan wrote:

This isn't hurting anyone, just changing the price.

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Those of us who still don't have a NSEL after 14 f^cking months as a pikeman may disagree that it's not hurting anyone.

I've ranted about it plenty of times in the past, and hate to go into it again. But the difficulty involved in getting this weapon is ridiculous, and something I'd really like to see change. Give me a high-level nearly-impossible quest to do for it and I'll jump for joy. Force me to kill 10 SBDs for the schematic and 5 krayts per motor and it would still be better than what we have now. Praying for a server crash so I can jump on and head straight to Dath as soon as it comes online, only to find a guild full of riflemen already there sucks.

Message Edited by annelid0 on 11-20-2004 11:55 PM

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annelid0 wrote:

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Kreagan wrote:

This isn't hurting anyone, just changing the price.

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Those of us who still don't have a NSEL after 14 f^cking months as a pikeman may disagree that it's not hurting anyone.

I've ranted about it plenty of times in the past, and hate to go into it again. But the difficulty involved in getting this weapon is ridiculous, and something I'd really like to see change. Give me a high-level nearly-impossible quest to do for it and I'll jump for joy. Force me to kill 10 SBDs for the schematic and 5 krayts per motor and it would still be better than what we have now. Praying for a server crash so I can jump on and head straight to Dath as soon as it comes online, only to find a guild full of riflemen already there sucks.

Message Edited by annelid0 on 11-20-2004 11:55 PM

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/agree, i wanna earn it myself, not try and get 8 million+ to get it

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VacaXXX wrote:

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annelid0 wrote:

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Kreagan wrote:

This isn't hurting anyone, just changing the price.

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Those of us who still don't have a NSEL after 14 f^cking months as a pikeman may disagree that it's not hurting anyone.

I've ranted about it plenty of times in the past, and hate to go into it again. But the difficulty involved in getting this weapon is ridiculous, and something I'd really like to see change. Give me a high-level nearly-impossible quest to do for it and I'll jump for joy. Force me to kill 10 SBDs for the schematic and 5 krayts per motor and it would still be better than what we have now. Praying for a server crash so I can jump on and head straight to Dath as soon as it comes online, only to find a guild full of riflemen already there sucks.

Message Edited by annelid0 on 11-20-2004 11:55 PM

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/agree, i wanna earn it myself, not try and get 8 million+ to get it

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I'm having a problem selling them at 4mil O_o

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annelid0 wrote:

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Kreagan wrote:

This isn't hurting anyone, just changing the price.

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Those of us who still don't have a NSEL after 14 f^cking months as a pikeman may disagree that it's not hurting anyone.

I've ranted about it plenty of times in the past, and hate to go into it again. But the difficulty involved in getting this weapon is ridiculous, and something I'd really like to see change. Give me a high-level nearly-impossible quest to do for it and I'll jump for joy. Force me to kill 10 SBDs for the schematic and 5 krayts per motor and it would still be better than what we have now. Praying for a server crash so I can jump on and head straight to Dath as soon as it comes online, only to find a guild full of riflemen already there sucks.

Message Edited by annelid0 on 11-20-2004 11:55 PM

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Kreagan wrote:

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annelid0 wrote:

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Kreagan wrote:

This isn't hurting anyone, just changing the price.

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Those of us who still don't have a NSEL after 14 f^cking months as a pikeman may disagree that it's not hurting anyone.

I've ranted about it plenty of times in the past, and hate to go into it again. But the difficulty involved in getting this weapon is ridiculous, and something I'd really like to see change. Give me a high-level nearly-impossible quest to do for it and I'll jump for joy. Force me to kill 10 SBDs for the schematic and 5 krayts per motor and it would still be better than what we have now. Praying for a server crash so I can jump on and head straight to Dath as soon as it comes online, only to find a guild full of riflemen already there sucks.

Message Edited by annelid0 on 11-20-2004 11:55 PM

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Yeah, but is it really worth any of it? These things are useless in combat, it's not like making stun batons un-craftable suddenly, this is merely a toy for people to walk around with, not even pikemen necesarily. If thing was as usefull as a stun baton for example, I would be mad, since a weapon like that should not be taken out of the game. So at the end of the day, when you see a pikeman who spent 10 mil on an nsel instead of on accuracy/speed sea's, is it really hurting you that you don't have one?

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I don't disagree with you that as far as usable weapons go the NSEL is largely worthless, but a large part of that is because they're too expensive to use. If we had a normal crafted weapon with the exact same stats people would use it at least as much as the VL.

Regardless, its usefulness isn't the real reason people want one. Mandalorian armor isn't currently useful in combat either, but virtually every BH would sell his soul to get it. Nightsister armor biceps do nothing at all, yet they may be one of the most expensive items in the game currently. When it comes down to it, most people want at least one of every weapon available to them, and there's no reason for this particular weapon to be so difficult to get when scythes and geonosian sonic blasters are vastly superior weapons and are simple to get.

Does it really hurt my effectiveness in combat not to have one? No. But when some buffbot is dancing with a weapon designed for the class I love and I can't get my hands on one it does hurt my enjoyment of the game.

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when some buffbot is dancing with a weapon designed for the class I love and I can't get my hands on one it does hurt my enjoyment of the game.

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makes me wanna cry when i see it, when i compliement them on their nice Night sister energy lance, they dont even know what im talking about. at least know its name................