yeah agreed, enhance runes and enchant runes are in a terrible state right now. Especially enhance runes, good luck enhancing to +8 or +10 without them, it takes 186 stones on average to +8 something... if either or both could be purchased with seals of bravery that would be a good change IMO. It is impossible to get past +10 without buying a ton of enhance runes. And 40% success 40% chance to boom if fail scrolls are terrible design as well in my opinion.
Idk, trying to play catchup nowadays sucks/is impossible when everyone is running around with +15s and fully enchanted gear having used multiple exquisite enchant runes from past events, or mass buying NX items. Weapons should be made more accessible or enhancing shouldn't be such a brick wall.
So the gist of it is, enhance, fail, lose your hard work. Or, spend AP, which also has to be worked hard for, or, spend money.it's not nearly as bad as you claim
You're already at a low player base compared to launch-first year. All you're doing is giving players a more valid reason to leave the game. I don't mind spending time to work towards endgame, but when I get there, I shouldn't be forced to work 2-3 times as hard as someone who blows money to stay that way, or get that way to begin with.
On another note, does the "team" consider that players really work hard for their stuff when they don't spend $$ for it?
I don't know much, but to me it seems that you're purposefully driving your playerbase out to either dislike the game, or company that runs it.