Why would I say such a thing, let's see.

In order to do the mobs at Nymphamare castle I first needed to upgrade my armor to distorted fallen guard armor; guess what drops at Nymphamare? The fragments and crystal that help me upgrade to distorted fallen god armor? That's the same level of armor I already needed just to grind there in the first place, that's confusing???? We'll maybe the developers meant for me to sell those items and buy the ones that can get me to silent god armor and eventuall move on to a higher level area, but wait, there over 200,000 of those distorted upgrade fragements at min price on the market place and I can't sell thet ones I get grinding there. Who would have guessed that no one would want an item drop that upgraded you to the gear you already had to have to get those drops in the first place????

That must be the exception surely the developers aren't that inept to often, ha ha ha if only that were true. Look at magical shards, I need 1800 to upgrade my Jin dawn crystals to Han. Currnet preorders at max price for them are 120,000, preorders for the sealed black magic crystals 1,277,449. Well perhaps I will get them grinding at Nymphamare....wait!!! They don't drop at Nymphmare or any area I that I worked hard to inprove my gear to farm, they only drop in areas I graduated from doing over a year ago with lesser gear. What impressive planning and forsight these developers must have.

There are many, many more similar examples of this inept and incompetant developemnt, these two are just the ones annoying me most at the moment.

It's puzzling me too, as in other areas of the game PA seems to know (knew?) their stuff, or at least is trying to address a real problem. The Edania loot structure around sov and armors makes no sense, and this obviously from the beginning, where for crystals they have the correct progression. The idea behind may be to sell drops to follow-up players, but this can't be the main thing, as design should be around the player's own progression through play in the first place.

The biggest annoyance to me is that I need an expensive armor upgrade to progress further that I outside of that artificial requirement don't need.

This is an issue because PA choose to put strict price brackets on every item. If there was no price cap on BMC we would have more people grinding previous zones, but PA doesn't like that - they want strict control in this "sandbox" MMO.

Which would work if they monitored all prices more often and adjusted where needed. I guess asking one of the devs to build a tool tracking prices and flagging the ones that are in huge need would be too much work...

In therms of armors, from Orbita to Tenebraum-Zephyros the Silent fragments are just obsolete because you need to already have atleast 2x Tet fallen + 2x Tri Edana starting with Orbita ( Recommended DP ). So the ideea of Distorted-Silent is a total failure from start when suppose to have it more on Aetherion-Nympha with increased drop and Wailing crystal/fragments ( pen level attempt ) on Orbita-Tenebraum-Zephyros-Star's End, but this is not avail at all and even if it was avail it will be very expensive.

The silent fragments drop is so so rare even at tenebraum-zephyros, I haven't seen one in many many hours, not like will gonna help anymore at some point.

They want people to move to new spots/region but with magical shards needed makes everyone to go back to Ulukita to farm sealed black magic crystal, a step forwards with 3 steps backwards which makes the title to stand true, these are not in drop table in Edania and Star's end drops like 10 per h? Funny.

should I also bring up how many players still cant get a Vell heart? or is that to much? 

ya PA needs to fix that type of stuff its deffinately silly. I would also say more mid game grind zones should be dropping essences for upgrading your accessories forceing people to grind honglim for them is kinda rediculous beacuase you quickly outgrow that zone but depending on how the market is you might have no choice but to be stuck there making less money an hour because you  need the materials. they were sold out like a month ago and were never in stock now they seem to be in stock again and I imagine part of it is the academy onboarding I think it worked a bit but hard to say how many will stick witht he game long term.

Either way ya its a joke ATM new players get kinda shafted in many ways.

so new players can get them for min price

PA has always put upgrade drops behind a AP/DP wall for the Average player 

Dev comes out with a new High AP/DP zone 

Dev comes up with new Itmes to play in new AP/DP zone 

Dev put Upgrade Parts for said item in new AP/DP zone