You should perhaps read the latest update announcement before making your statements (and shooting yourself in the foot). When Luna said "attractive", she didn't explicit state what it refers to. It could mean improving existing drop rates, or/and it could mean adding new items. But, the staffs chose the former. Perhaps you also missed the discussion on RE. It was too high, beyond what we originally planned (about 40+ per hour, rather than 200-300 per hour), and it was only right for us to quickly reduced it to the intended rate. I don't see why an announcement has to be made, since it wouldn't have made a difference had we done it properly the first time (but sadly, mistakes happen). Since it's already over, it's not something I want to continue discussing about, and you can be rest assured we'll keep this in mind the next time we have such similar events. Yup, RNG. So good luck. My guild has managed to obtain 2 or 3 Assassinate 30 in 8 rounds.
Of course she never explicitly said it was there will be new items added, but anyone with two brain cells would know the drop rates of books had to and would be changed, so I'm not sure how I was shooting myself on the foot to expect more from the GPQ feedback thread. We got about 3 ass30's in two runs of GPQ as well during our initial runs after the update. All in all we probably sold close to eight books. Market prices went from 900m to 500m real quick. But now it's gone up again to 750-900m. Perhaps that was an unintended "too high, beyond what we originally planned" rate, and you "quickly reduced it to the intended rate. and don't see why an announcement has to be made, since it wouldn't have made a difference had you guys done it properly the first time", and that's why we're seeing none this time. I guess this thread is truly done for now. GPQ activity will reflect if the changes here are enough. And even if it's not, does it really matter? It can always join the ranks of LPQ, LMPQ and OPQ.
The droprates have been increased twice, once quite recently, and once a couple months after GPQ was released. We have not reduced any rates after the fact. We did also add an Ergoth Chair to the reward list during the first drop increase.
We (liquorstore) have noticed the drop increase and love it. Thanks so much. Now you just need to add respawning fly-eyes to the thief room in cwk so shadowers can solo it +w+
idk if it's a bad suggestion, but maybe you could look into adding some nx card drops? Maybe make the 100 nx and 250 nx drop more often, and maybe a lower % chance of obtaining a 5k card? I think something like that alone would be enough incentive to do the PQ. Also some scroll drops couldn't hurt. Another idea could be to add some nx equips (not custom made equips, but some nx items that haven't been released in royals yet) to the drop tables, and make GPQ be the only way to obtain the items? (I think the nx items should be untradeable)
We are constantly trying to improve the content, but at the moment I don't see the real need. But I do agree that it could be improved ever more slightly to make it a little more enticing, like adding Red Cider which is currently only obtainable from LMPQ. Regarding your suggestion on dropping nx items, that's very unlikely to happen as it's not maple-like to begin with.
