I think you are missing the initial point of this.

Not selling them isnt balance since people have.

Not selling makes it harder for people who dont have to be able to beat those who do have the weapons already.

The point im making is that I personally control 6 upgrades + 1 epic weapon. That being said There are other people like me who also control a good amount of epics/upgrades themselves. Some are like Penguin Joe who have a few upgrades sitting on dormant accounts.

However when 1 person has a pile of them. Literally Not to mention the 4part bow I had, 4part axe I had, epic katars I had, another 4part dagger, another 4part zhen. All adds up to at one point in time I have held and traded off for other items an additional 5 more powerful items that are rare. I have probably owned over 20 4parts over my time played in rohan.

If you want a 4part / epic free game go play on isen. I hear the competition is scarce like their player base.

Im saying that now that they have the new patches out they should be selling weapons since many of the classes now benefit from using their class specific items whereas before many dhans were rocking daggers and swords. Which come nowhere near as good as katars are now. Not to mention do you think someone is going to trade for a in game katar over a 4part?! LOL only if they are retarded.

Many people dont have class specific items. I know many giants were using axes, swords, daggers, or maces not duals or polearms. Why? Because those items are single class only. The axes still dont have a specific class they fit since no class officially has a mastery for them.

Just saying I control 1% of the upgrades probably more because I dont think more than 600 of them exist on this server anymore. If ever. Im assuming theres less than 1000 active players in this game. Im assuming less than 50% of that have epic/upgrades. Out of that 500 people I have 6. Even if those other 500people had one each I still have 1% but I know for a fact other people have 3-5 upgrades.

Which makes the gap between people greater.

They exist so keep selling them. Not selling them especially since the balance patches makes it so people need to decide to use trash items over upgrades and I cant see that happening. I know personally I wouldnt give up the benefits of an upgrade for a 230agi 14% crit katar. Just because I would lose so many other bonus's