With all of the elevator pass bashing going on in relation to CE prices, has anyone considered the effect of Arsenal Stations on each level?
Before the Stations most people equipped an all round build, which would get you through the entire tier and because of the dual themes in each tier there was no point really in creating specialised builds for each theme.
Now that you can re-equip at the start of every level, after you know exactly what you will encounter it's possible to take specialised equipment, right down to appropriate trinkets for that level. I now have about 15 different loadouts going from theme loadouts to individual level loadouts, such as fire arena etc.
With this change it's more useful to actually craft the different lines now that were less used before due to being too specialised and since the update I've been crafting as fast as I can heat things up to cater for every eventuality rather than take the same general kit through every run.
Since these came in, I've used a good few thousand CE to make all the things I wanted but couldn't justify due to lack of use and I can't be the only one to be crafting a lot more than previously.
In summary, couldn't the actual reason for high CE demand be more reasons to craft other than, or combined with the elevator pass.
Sorry for another CE thread but it's not a rant, more of a defence of the elevator pass.
When the announced that they were doing arsenal pads on the test server, I immediately bean buying weapon-specific weapons with Very High UVs. I doubt enough people have been doing enough buying to have any significant effect on the CE market, though. Previously I had avoided these weapons in favor of increased attack speed or shorter charge time UVs on weapons since these had a more general overall usefulness. It has been a lot fun going into, say, a Deconstruction Zone level, and changing to my anti-gremlin gear by equiping my loadout title "Deconstruction Zone". I now have loadouts with the names of each type of level, containing the weapons, armor and shield most suited to that level. It makes playing easier and more fun.