The antidotes are really expensive, how much dmg does the poison do? They already cost more than 50s and will most likely sky rocket to 1g since every player will need alot of them.

This means if you get a bad group you will easily burn 20-30 of them and lose 10+ gold for wipeing. This will increase the toxic lvls since players are actually going to lose a significant amount of gold if something isn't going perfectly. Every time a player loses something because of another player, be this rating, gold or what ever, the environement gets very toxic, this is a guaranteed thing to happen, if these Antidoes are mandatory there will be alot of bashing going on in random groups.

Do you really need these antidotes or is it just convenient to have them? Honestly, they really are extremely expensive. There is no way I can afford tens of tens of gold wipeing with random groups learning the fight with Asura. I've read somewhere you can literally burn up to 20-30 a fight if things go badly, this means 10-15g or if the price really reaches 1g per antidote 20-30g in ONE run. This is too much for my ingame wallet, I can't throw around that much Blade & Soul gold.

Can I not buy these antidotes or will they be mandatory? I'm telling you they are around 70s a piece right now, it looks like they will go to 1g easily once every player needs many of them. This is crazy expensive even if you have alot of gold. You will wipe alot, it's just part of the game, but loseing so much gold on every wipe takes out the willingness to try.

I never leave a bad grp and usually stick around until we get it right. But with extreme gold costs like this even I can't justify staying with unexperienced groups. This will go like this: I will make guild runs to learn everything in a more friendly evironment and then be forced to stay away from the random groups since it will cost me a fortune to share my experience with them. I did this with Nunu, I learned it with guildies but then went on to do the runs with randoms. WHy? Because I don't always want to share the drops, I want to bid and win the books and have the profit for myself and not divide it with 4. I'm trying to be as friendly as possible, I had runs where I had to explain the same thing like 6-7 times in a row, but eventually we got it right, and since these are new players they don't have that much gold to fight you on good drops. They benefit learning from me and I benefit from more profit win/win, this goes straight out of the window if I have to buy 1g antidotes and wipe the entire day and literally lose gold by doing so.

If this is their idea of pushing other crafting professions it's a really poor decision. Imagine a new player who just got the gear he needs to do this dungeon. He then needs to spend 20-30g worth of antidotes in wipes. Isn't it enough to deal with the frustration of the other players and the own frustration when things go bad, now you also literally have to spend a fortune to cure a poison mechanic?

Imagining how this will go down is a fricking nightmare. You will have players who will leave after every wipe bcause they don't want to waste their expensive antdotes. This means no matter how much effort you put into the group, you will always get a new player who wasn't there from the beginning. Once that new guy get's close to learning it, another guy will leave and boom, we have to teach the newest guy everything again. This was already reality in Avalanche Den, I had to repeat myself so many times bcause players wouldn't stick around and leave on the very first mistake someone did.

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