Quote Originally Posted by konafez View Post
This thread kinda got derailed, the origal point was..the jewel elixes. There plat only / non tradable ..and a plat only event kinda sucks for us f2p players
On that point:

It does help f2p players, though. It will bring the price of jewels down. One of the usuall complaints of f2p players is when items are so outrageously overpriced and can only be afforded by those who shell out money.

Sometimes sts doesn't want to recycle weekly updates and put out some lame ducks. It isn't like the update is +1 permanent damage for 50 plat.

Updates used to only last the weekends. They're a week long now. If the elixirs were available to everyone, the market could drop very quickly in one week. Double gem essences for a weekend used to leave gem prices cut in half. And gems are one time uses. Double that time...and the jewels can be reused?! The value of jewels would drop so low that they wouldn't be worth farming. Chaos jewel farming would feel like teeth farming, at best.