You are not seeing entire picture : reduced epic chance lead to diamond price drop.It dropped from 455k to 400k in beta. It will drop more.Equilibrium will be reached very soon,in few weeks.Not everyone should be crafter,some players should dig resources,and this shifts everything in that direction.And besides,things change ,and now player cant send 1 sms for 30 diamonds,make 6 epics (with old 25-31% epic chance) ,dress himself ,and just play further.thing is that epic was way too easy to make.It only hurts u as a player that "maximum" equipement is now more expensive,meaning that richer players will have better eq.In general ,people will buy same amounts of diamonds,epics will worth more,so when u make it it will be sold more expensive.Game is a bit harder,that is true,since equipement is more expensive now,and monsters are same.but its not end of world,and game does not become impossible.