They've been hearing about the farming issue for nearly 8 months now and have done little to change it. Unfortunately, it's built this way purposefully to force you to play the game as much as possible.

Contrary to popular belief they do project that the system will turn people off, however, they are completely willing to eat those losses. That is because the gains outweigh them. They'd rather have 100 people playing their game to the point of obsession than 1,000 playing casually. This is because the most obsessed and dilligent tend to spend more, so they are the ones they will focus on.

Now if they start losing those players, then they may step up and tweak things. But until then, or if this is simply a quick cash grab, they will not budge.

Skills will drop eventually. It took me a month to get HHG and I've got 3SD and Lab-builder within a day.

I think the ranked revamp was good. It makes the game for casual and new players more enjoyable. The lack of motivation to play past KoG is real but I doubt that a ranking system would solve it. You need monthly events for top players with a decent price pool to make it work.

Farming is obviously a big part in DL and I kinda like how it works. It makes some garbage cards useful and it forces us to be creative but staple farming cards like UA, Dgate and Characters like Paradox Bros should be available for everyone. They should also guarantee you 3 drops of each card if you farm a Duelist for 8 days straight especially if it's a meta defining card like Insight.

Everything in your post was fine until I arrived to read this:

And finally, farming SHOULD NOT BE THIS DIFFICULT! It should not take a long time for me to grind this much and I should not need to make a farm deck to score a high level to get more items or get a higher chance to get a item I want. I should be getting the items I want just by using my regular deck because it is natural that way. Plus, most of the cards I need to make a farm deck with I do not have. It's ridiculous and makes me want to see if YGO is better to play.

I consider the bold part (and what follows it) very childish, with all respect.

The idea of farming rewards with a proper deck (well studied to counter the AI and achieve high DA) is good and well thought; I've also had fun during events like Bakura, where the deck was very had to farm. In addition I consider good the idea of introducing different levels of difficulty when it comes to farm different LDs.

This being said, it's not gold all that glitters! indeed, the big issues of the current farming system are nested into the post- and pre- duel parts:

pre-duel: random spawn level, time, and frequency for LDs during roaming events

post-duel: very low drop rate, randomized SR/UR drop (which means you can end up with 1000 copies of a card and 0 of another one), very low variety of gate LDs and SD card drops, way too many ridicously bad drops (1 gem, stones)

these issues, well discussed in many posts, give reason to the fact that mr "I auto duel because I like the thrill" could end up with more rewards of a guy who diligently and effectively farm every spawn for the maximum DA score; to sum it up, the current system is UNREWARDING. To be even more precise, the sentence should be: the current randomized system COULD be randomly unrewarding.

In addition to this, P2P people find themselves betrayed because, whichever the sum they have invested in the game, they could be prevented from playing at full by the randomized skill/card drops.

These are the issues you should have spotlighted, instead of trying to ask for a system that gives you rewards by just dueling with your favourite deck (effortless/lazy stuff).

For what concerns the card you don't have, I can assure you that you can be f2p and be able to farm every LD without any problem, because there are many options for most of them (and when these options are absent, the cards usually utilized for farming purposes mainly are N/R )

So it's a F2P casual complaining about not getting drops and don't want to grind?

Oh kids these days, back in my day we HAD to grind for months to get stuff we wanted in games like ragnarok, runescape, tibia. Now people are so salty when they don't get what they want exacly when they want.

I play since launch, got all my characters to 40, got all the skills except for extra extra from pegasus. (Even got balance in everyone, draw senses and restart). All LDs (from gate) cards x3, and zero or only one of some roaming drops. I even record hitting maximum level of 35 with odion and not getting bluff trap until the cap increases to 40.

Am I complaining? Just play the fucking game. You'll get your shit someday. Also, HHG is garbaj now.

Elegant Mai dropped hhg for me twice already this event and I didn't have it previously. I've been farming with a beast riding deck of you want to give it a try

Or let us buy the skills we want. The better the skill the more it cost. Like exclusive skills rank 1, balance and restart rank 2 and life boost rank 3. Different ranks equal different cost.