For the record, he started the whole thing...
...and paid dearly for it. (also he is being bitter)
Shadow missions made: 290459.25 exp 7786 gold
Commerce made: 715833.00 exp 68105 gold
I can already feel Ibid smiling down on me from wherever he is.
I can also feel that I am right and Bar is wrong and that he is foolish for even starting this argument. Ha!
I must say, I was quite surprised by these results. I already said in chat that I was expecting Bar to be right, but even after conceding his point about bad mission choice and advanced difficulty instead of hard (elite isn't easily repeatable, so that's out), I simply wasn't expecting that much from commerce. That's probably because when I do commerce, I don't watch time to know if it's been 20 minutes or an hour since I started; and 20 minutes of commerce always feel like an hour to me.
Guess I'll have to spend a bit more time doing commerce now
On the subject of dragon, it's worth mentioning that yesterday, the swarm of people ended up, eventually, on channel 5 and managed to kill whity there as well. I suspect they also killed another one or two on channel 2-4 since it took them a while to end up on 5 after killing the one from channel 1. So, multiple white dragon in a day is a possibility. You also get a demonic piece of material whenever you hit 1000+ contribution. So it isn't just an alternative source of material, it also makes any previous source meaningless. I'm quite fine with that
@ Kaitol
You should join the guild as soon as possible if you want to give Mabi another go. We are not very active, but there's a few of us showing up every now and then and we are generally willing to spend more time if we have any reason to (like to help someone or whatever). Mabi isn't the typical MMO, there is no clear linear progression. As such, setting your own goals will be essential to really enjoy the game. At least until you get to know other people better. Just spending time doing whatever with them could be enough for you after that.