Fantasy wrote:
Solution to problem? What problem there is no problem!
Actually to be honest, I think the price of weapon elixir at 250k a piece is very cheap, they should indeed be 400-500k a piece.
If you see people pay 2mil for a deg8 str stone that has the possibility to add str... I think 500k for w weapon elixir is about the right price. The weapon elixir does add more value to the weapon then the stone.
Joymax should do nothing at all, it is just the demand and supply rule. If people can and will pay 20 or 50 or 100 or 200 mil for a lvl52 sos, then that will be the price.
Just try to be creative in earning money, I can make min 10mil in 2h of work EASY. My 12 year old brother, wich is level 14 or 15, can make like 2 to 3 mil in 2 hour just by merchanting monster scroll, low level sos etc...
Remember you don't need to spend time stalling you can do that when your AFK too, only run trough hotan and other city once and a while to find good deals and stuff

BTW The event is indeed one of the main reasons prices went up, but remember, you are getting those event items too, and with the cristmas event, the droprate of the boxes became a lot lower. The raise in level cap is a reason why weapon elixir became more expensive I believe.
If you had some backing behind your logic that might have made some sense. You have no concept of deflation vs inflation, supply and demand do you? The reasoning behind the cost of a str stone vs elixir i.e. weapon, protect accessory .... Strength tabs are a rarity~definition they don't drop that dam often, therefore leads to the 2-3 million cost as a stone. Elixirs drops are very very common therefore prices should always be at a norm~meaning they've been the same dam price for a year +. If there is an sudden increase in prices when there has not been a sudden decrease in product we are to conclude that players are doing what is known as price gauging. They are selling at high prices praying for gold buyers to buy, others see these items being sold at theses prices so they match the prices instead of under cutting the prices to create competition
Gold buyers are the reason for these prices, if people do not have 900 million gold to buy at these high prices, prices fall due to no one is buying. Until that happens the prices will not drop plain and simple.
On an different subject: Who cares if you can make 10 million gold in 2 hours work "EASY"? Go into detail in how you can make that 10 mil in 2 hours "EASY" next time, give pointers since you are the well known SRO guru...