Would it be a good idea to add an extra stone slot in weapons and armor with all the new stones and combinations? like 3 stone slots in armor and 5/6 in weapons. With the new dungeon mobs may help dps kill faster therefore better exp.
To the people rebutting about the new stones' powers in rappelz, have you done your research or are you just putting them down irrationally? The new m.atk stones give 5.2 at level 20 (basic stones) which does NOT match the 2 m.atk the original int stones give.
There's balance in all of it, if you were using int stones before just for the M.atk, then you can go full m.atk now, rather than getting less, but with Max MP tacked on. Same goes for STR, now you can drop the weight benefits and go full P.atk, as with Vit, you can go full p.def, etc. There IS balance, they aren't nearly as temporarily useful as the ethereal equips are.
That may be true for level 20 basic stones, but for higher level stones, the old ones provide more than the new ones do. From what we see, you're better off using the old basic stones from level60+, and all of the old dungeon stones are better than the new ones. Since most people dont even use basic stones, we would say the old ones are better than the new ones.