Stigma (shard) system

Hello guys

On the Lumiel server we've had alot of moaning, whining and especially hating on and about the new stigma system. Personally I think it's good they implemented the system, because there obviously were some differences in the power of classes COUGHsorc/glad/rangerCOUGH.

However the system has brought some problems, which I'm sure the dev team is working on atm. People now need to 'earn' their stigmas and it sounds like a reasonable way. But the stigma shards needed are just being taken advantage off. People that bought shards for 10credits = 1k a couple of days ago got their stigmas equipted alot easier and even make a huge amount of money selling them now where others have no stigmas at all. Promises were made about keeping the shards in the itemstore and that there will be a NPC ingame, but I guess only time can tell.

My suggestion is, sell the stigma shards at the abyss stigma contributers for let's say 1 shard = 10AP
You'll get 1k shards for 10k AP and that's enough to equipt about 6-7 normal stigmas. Equipting all your stigmas obviously requires more.

This way people actually have to make some effort for the shards, prices will be normal/affordable and you can actually change stigmas regularly, making the system more enjoyable (instead of paying 50b for 1k shards).

Maybe it's been suggested before, I don't know and I'm sure the devs have a plan of their own, but this seems the most fair way possible. I also can imagine this being to implement easier than creating a entirely new NPC just for selling stigmas...