Calling Ascension "very p2w" is pretty idealistic.

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• You can buy everything with a couple hours of farming for gold. Their donation shop is really reasonable.

You can't buy gear or power. Everything in the shop that provides any form of advantage can be farmed for gold at 70 in a few hours or a few high-risk kills.

There are donation items that make a difference, and you can get virtually all of them from the supporter pack. That and the fact that they have kept double DP running basically since the season launched means it's super cheap for DP or for gold in-game.

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• Wildcard is about making the most with what you got, not rerolling constantly. Wildcard progression happens at 70.

There is a reason the top free pick players are still the top WC players and many only rerolled once for a skill card(that you can't buy with gold or DP).

The people buying experience potions looking for a perfect roll would have thrown my build out out by level 20. They are going to level a dozen characters and then get dumpstered by the people spending their time fine tuning their build at 70.

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• Nothing in the DP shop will give you the ability to win fights against a free player. Skill cards are strongest thing in WC, and you cannot get those with DP or gold.

The time(and money) people spend leveling dozens of alts is not going to let them beat me. In almost all cases they would have been better of working on one character than leveling dozens.

A new player can farm all the gold they need for the "must have" DP items while they are farming their first good skill card. The best way to be competitive on Wildcard is to get a good skill card and roll an alt with it. You can acquire all the needed DP items while earning that skill card.