If you don't want to buy drops then nobody is stopping you from earning them yourself no? I know that I've been needing 3 damned crowns for well over 2 months and I've plainly given up because either a purple crown never drops or someone who just reached eligibility or popped up out of nowhere gets the crown. Same goes for all classes and I'd much rather just buy my drops from these people rather than the items slowly accumulating and@venus:
while i agree with you to some extent - you still have your chance, but now you have a $ opportunity too - the issue is on the otherside. Right now, if you missed a boss and someone got a dl drop you need, you have a chance of getting it without a bidding war. The idea is to help people gear up without breaking the bank.
Some people see this is working, some people see this as a failure. Knowing i am in a clan that where the high levels would give to each other rather profit off each other, i would feel more comfortable with option 2 than i would expect. But i am trying to also consider people who are not in strong and populous clans. So i have not yet decided which way i will vote (maybe i will abstain - then people cannot tell me that MY rules aren't working)
but it is a good conversation to have.
I guess a third option would be to open up (say in January) the selling of gems, eggs, urns to see how it goes and because we are starting to really get extras.
Nobody achieving anything.
On a side note people I'm starting to worry that I won't be getting paid back what I've lent, so you people who know who you are update me on my crowns' status. Thanks.