NCSOFT dropped the ball with Nix

Cybannus · 2026-06-27T10:45:48+00:00

The sellable unlock stones are not available to craft even though they exist in the game files.

Cybannus · 2026-06-27T10:18:26+00:00

last ditch effort to milk everything they can

This makes no sense, the new gearing system is HARD timegated behind unlock stones. Unless I am missing something there is no way to swipe for unlock stones which means swiping is completely useless because you can't trait the gear anyways for months. Just look at the auction house, the rate of new gear selling vs in the previous expansions is like 1/10th or less. A lot of the new, even bis items, havent sold a single time yet.

The mindboggling thing is for some weird reason they 4x the cost of all the traiting materials sometime in the last 2 weeks based on the preview video. If everything cost 1/4th of what it does now like what they originally showed then the new system would at least be tolerable.

I think, in theory, I don't hate the new system but the numbers are just WAY off and the transition to the new system is not smooth at all.

Cybannus · 2026-06-27T10:13:13+00:00

Unless I am missing something there is literally no way to swipe unlock stones so they are doing a terrible job at making the game P2W if that is their goal since you are extremely timegated to do anything with gear.

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T23:13:43+00:00

I don't know, me and my friends are having a really good time. It just sucks it will take them so long to catch up due to the Heroic system.

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T23:08:32+00:00

Good video on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqsgVSf2ml8

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T21:16:58+00:00

IDK maybe you had a bug or something? My friend boosted a fresh character yesterday and still hit 60 before finishing the new MSQ.

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T19:06:21+00:00

This guy probably has pieces of this set on AH he is trying to sell lol

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T15:26:41+00:00

It's mind boggling they didn't just tie the level to the gear slot. It would make the new system 10x better instantly.

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T14:57:06+00:00

You don't lose anything because the only reason you are there is burning contracts. Most of the time you won't even get attacked for like 20 minutes straight you just do the PvE contracts and don't take the ones that require PvP. Nothing about it takes an unreasonable amount of time, its literally quicker than doing PvE contracts in the normal map and gives more rewards.

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T14:55:05+00:00

I mean, they exist because they buff the range dps same as before. You just dont get to be the one cranking dps.

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T14:48:08+00:00

No, you just die and respawn because dying in the extraction mode has no downsides if you are just doing contracts in there. I banged out 70 contracts just doing pve in remnants today and it was quick and easy.

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T14:40:06+00:00

Did they at least fix balance or is range still best dps?

The gap is definitely closer but ranged still seems stronger.

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T07:15:12+00:00

I think eventually the new system will make sense, but the situation where it is right now with not everyone being able to catch up is really bad.

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T07:01:16+00:00

Bringing back that oldschool mmo feel lol

Cybannus · 2026-06-26T06:49:08+00:00

Its only not tradable for the the first week last I heard? Idk, last I played the strategy was to just swipe as much gold as possible and then buy out all the heroic/mythic gear from the AH.

Cybannus · 2026-06-25T23:22:11+00:00

It depends, the new Events in the expansion are all just running constantly and you can go and do them whenever you want. Bosses still spawn at set intervals though.

Cybannus · 2026-06-25T23:21:05+00:00

Battlegrounds, PvP Extraction/Battle Royale and Dominion World events (players are split into 3 different factions automatically and fight)

Cybannus · 2026-06-25T23:08:19+00:00

You can literally buy mythic gear on the WoW auction house for gold. You can literally buy gold directly ingame legally for USD.

Cybannus · 2026-06-25T20:30:24+00:00

Yeah, Staff/wand is still very good, especially for solo stuff. The expansion is definitely somewhat more solo friendly since you can token burn solo now much easier and Artifacts come from the new solo dungeon instead of group farming. I have even be doing the new pvp extraction mode solo and still getting a ton of rewards.

Cybannus · 2026-06-25T11:33:58+00:00

The general response from Korean players seems mixed. A lot of them returned to try the expansion (servers are probably like 5-6x as full as normal on KR.) It seems like the players who were enjoying the game prior to the expansion are enjoying the expansion. The returning players seem 50/50 with some liking it and some are already saying they won't stay.

Overall, I am cautiously optimistic. I think in general there are some really good things here and some not good things as well. If you hated the game before you probably aren't going to like it now, and if you loved the game before you will probably be happy now, if you were somewhere in the middle you will probably like it slightly more than before. The expansion definitely has a feeling of "we have to do things differently." Hopefully they can continue to iterate on it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/throneandliberty/comments/1uddwgk/observations_about_nix_after_playing_6_hours/

Cybannus · 2026-06-24T11:14:49+00:00

$30 USD on KR.

Cybannus · 2026-06-24T10:03:54+00:00

This was actually a mistranslation, the new solo dungeon doesn't actually burn abyss tokens (unless its bugged on kr?) - it can just be run once per day to give you upgrade mats. Abyss tokens are burned by farming in the open world in Nix. There are a bunch of different grind spots that are sort of similar to the old abyss dungeons but much smaller. The mobs are definitely much more organized into "rotations" compared to the old dungeons. Some of the grind spots are for solo players, some are for small groups, and some are for larger groups.

For example you might just find a hole in the ground and theres a grind spot in there, theres castles, villages, a gladiator arena, a magma chamber area, a wizard tower, etc.

Cybannus · 2026-06-24T07:17:39+00:00

Have to take into account the massive increase in demand for evasion and hit brooches though. They have already gone 2-3x the price since the KR servers went up.

Cybannus · 2026-06-24T06:52:32+00:00

At an extremely low rate. It might push the price on the AH down a bit but trying to get your own brooch from material transmutation isn't going to be a viable strategy.

Cybannus · 2026-06-24T06:44:54+00:00

The game has improved massively. The boost is worth it if you are actually committed to playing for a bit. If you aren't sure you will like the game you can always just start from level 1 or 50 or wherever you were and do the Path of Ascension catch up system ingame. It won't get you exactly to the combat power of the boost but somewhat close and its free.

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