Title: Rich Merchant Ring Piece - Exchange (Oluns)
Family Name: MortalKombat

Region (NA/EU): NA

Suggestions/Comments:  The last piece of the Merchant Ring is gated by a Party Requirement for Olun's.  Not everyone has the ability to find 2 other people to grind with for the hundreds of hours typically required for this piece.  What about allowing us to exchange 20 or 25 of the other marchant ring pieces for the 1 Olun's piece?

20 or 25?  that's way too much.  You're basically just saying to keep grinding Crypt.  Each ring piece should have an equal chance to obtain IMO.  We all know that Crypt has a much higher drop rate than any other piece.  

They need to just move the piece from Oluns to a solo zone.

I grinded 9h of dehkia oluns last  Tuesday.  3 times I just opened  LFG and had a group, but every group was for 1h only, so next 6 hours I created LFG and I needed like  1-5 min to find people.  Also  I had 3h with a man from my guild.

So what  a problem to find a group today?

1. Create LFG

2. Ask in guild

3. Add people to friend list after each hour oluns.
4. Join  discord > cult of oluns to find people there. 

I also don't mind if they add olun`s piece on a solo spot, but it must be like with abbysal and upper sycraia piece,  where  abyssal  would be solo oluns  and upper  - group oluns. I mean in 10-20 times harder to obtain, but solo =)

For real. Its frustrating this piece is gated behind group content. You cant work around. BDO has so much solo content and most players like the solo content. I hate it to wait for other people. ANd the oluns piece has the lowest chance.

I could live with a pity system. If you get 1000 olucas you can exchange them to that piece can be an option. Olucas are useless these days. Same for the other rare drops flame of corruption and elivaeyed parts. I knew some people who never got this uselss items. First rare drop there Olunspiece under 100hr. Feels so bad to be unlucky and gate keeped by this one piece. Even the Trade option in the past was the worst one to get it over 50.000 hr in average-> nearly impossible on that way. BDO is in PVE a single game for the most players.

Oher people will say "Its a spot where you can make money" -.-> No not really. I lost so much silver alone for waiting.

I do oluns also, 1 h with party and 3h solo becouse  my daly goal is 2h a day but not many players want 2h in row .

Average is 282 but i go always 4x time average as happened in padix 465h so i expect if stay cosistent 1 year maby that piece wil drop if no then unistal bdo till ring# 5 become solo spot .

May I ask, does this "find a party in 5 mins" you are doing, with Shai? If yes, then you are correct, it takes like 5 mins to find a party. For me, as a DPS main it sometimes takes more than an hour to find a party (dehkia oluns). In party finder, 80% of the posts are looking for Shai.

I agree to the OP, they should at least add a solo spot as an option in case you cant find a group. Dehkia Oluns is a coveted spot because of Deboreka Earring, so I doubt it will run out of players, and normal Oluns are good money also (tho it makes it harder that there is only one spot to grind, they might change that too).