I mean gold is naturally generated easier now too with more content released. Each vykas character gets 10k+ just from dungeon gold per reset. Like a 1 main 5 alt roster prob makes like 30k-40k/week just from raid dungeons alone

You can literally buy gold alot cheaper then that. Plus bots are still a problem and have been coming back after every ban wave.

The statistics say that only 5 % of the registered character's base reached Vykas,
So this is not the right criteria here.

maybe 5% of whole user base (including ppl that stopped playing),

but i'd guess 70%+ of ACTIVE players are valtan+. They made it so easy now with the legendary honing books to hit 1415+.

And probably anyone on the d2jsp active playerbase probably like 90% valtan+

If we wanted to be fully transparent here, you are asking for 16-20k per 100,000 Lost Ark IGG. Current donor forum rates for RL trades are approx 10k per $100. RMT is sitting at $120 per 100k…
Something’s not adding up here huh