Hi,
According to my observations ( personal feeling )
Gold has become harder to gain over the last months while I was inactive.
What I mainly think is the source of this is that now it's basically close to impossible to farm Vale of Rites for gold.
I understand the changes to drop rates since drop system was heavily outdated for endgame players but even as a endgame player it now is hard to gain gold from Rites ( close to impossible ).
That currently only leaves players with one way of gaining gold through fishing which is a deal breaker for many people that don't want to just stay at the river waiting for anything + it takes a lot of time to reach lvl 100 on fishing in the first place.
Also those changes made it insanely hard for newbies to gain gold and sell it to make some starting dias to set foot into the game.
It's also got nearly impossible to gain the needed amount of gold for weapons, cards and even guild buffs with that drop rate change since it's nearly impossible to gain enough if we can only run vales of rites with full drop buff's. This also is a issue because we also need the drop buff's for grove in order to gain echos....
I therefore would like to suggest that Vale of the rites gets excluded from the new drop rate system or rates get adjusted so that players can gain gold like before (3,5-5m) per run.
Greetings