Shadowmoon

I present to you the signs of a p2w items, buy able loot. And they have the items from the new harder instance. First we had OP costumes that make costume brawls a joke. Now we have buy able loot.

• The Consortium Chest has been added to the gem store in the Consumable category for 250 gems each or 10 for 1800 gems. No key is required to open these chests; simply double-click them in your inventory.
  
  • When you open the Consortium Chest, you will receive some number of crafting materials and one random item.
    
  • Some items in the chest include: shoulder skins, breathing masks, weapon skins, hats, and minis.
    
  • All items in the chest are new and have never been available before.
    
  • Weapon skins are rare, and the minis are very rare.
    
  • All items can be sold on the Trading Post.
    
  • The Consortium Chest will only be available for a limited time.
• All the items found in the Consortium Chest can also be obtained as rare drops from any creature from the new Lost Shores event.

What will nexon put in the store next?

Doing a little mathhammer, it comes up that you will have to do 120 DE in Straits of Devastation to get only 1 piece of karma Exotic. Yes I know these don't have the highest rewards, but they zerg chain allows them to be farmed quickly that you actually trigger the Anti-Farm Code and start getting diminishing returns after doing a few cycles. Now at this idea of I wonder how this game was hype as being grind free. Seeing how to get the best armor stats in game will require days of repeated grind, and that is only if this zerg chain isn't nerfed to pieces. I understand that rare skins should take a while, but getting an ugly max set gear shouldn't take this long. What happened to skill > time, what happened to no grind required?

Now this appear to be the easiest armor to get, if someone can point to me another way to get a set of Max stat 80 armors, I am all ears.