Quote Originally Posted by FrankfurtHBF View Post
It appears you're deviating from the core point of my post, much like before. I'll reiterate that to extract the MAXIMUM benefit from farming, one needs good equipment and awakes on it.

As you may notice, the demand for such equipment is increasing, along with the prices of its components (elite awake gems, jewels) accordingly. As you can see, the price of elite gems has risen by about 39% in SIX MONTHS, from 260k to 360k (not to mention equipment), illustrating a significant increase. This is incredibly high, considering that the price of GOOD equipment to some extent depends on the price of elite gems.

It's challenging to keep up with such price hikes without the ability to maximize farming benefits (which only players with top-tier equipment THAT FARM EZG can afford).
The thing is that you actually don't need op gears for being able to play current meta ezg strat. You can definitely make it with 3k stat (mage and rog even with less than that), 4ms and starbeast gl set (if you can't do that with these stats then it's skill issue). Starbeast pieces with below 6% stats are cheap, 4ms (even 4.5ms) is cheap aswell, gold loot set varies on % awak (well, venal sets increased in price, but snow weapons made gl weapons cheaper). Overall it's actually way cheaper to get gears for meta farm than before.
Awaks jumped to 360k because of roadmap. 6 months ago awaks were about 300k when awak event was close. It's 20% increase (and current meta strat let us farm more than 20% more).
"Not to mention equipment" - kraken and starbeast drastically dropped in price. Clean star arti was 200m when released, now it's 35m. Same thing with belt. Force weapons got cheaper aswell. Most of the items are getting cheaper. OP awak star gear (which isn't needed for farm) will drop in price with awak event.