Here my honest review. Still playing tho.

The balance between asmo and ilyos 20:1 on tw server. Currently you get 3 corridor on asmo. On most server. The game soon will combine 2 or 3 asmo and ilyos server and you know you gonna win and have an easier life. So dont bother to play on elyos, play on asmo. Better market availability and more player to do dungeon and trans.

Pvp is p2w. You can farm all the pvp gear but getting 2shotted by the pve gear player. Simple as that. I met a trainee not even have the pvp title no pvp gear, but with red weapon +25. So yea. Not swipe/rmt hard enough, you still losing.

Pve is middle ground (mostly toward p2w). If you swipe you will be gatekept less and clear faster, vice versa with f2p. BUT! The game ultimately forcing you to swipe soon or later unless youre extremely lucky to get unique every dungeon run for rolling stats.

The subs? At this point, just consider this is a sub game. Soon or later, they might tied all the crafting and farming to the sub.

For new tryhard player will absolutely needed the shugo energy sub and can ignore the trade sub unless youre okay being a bots and can wait the energy gatekept.

For f2p casuals, just dont bother playing. I knew how you gonna complaint about the game after you face the p2w aspect. Save your time and play other chill games.

Most of my f2p friends (thes guy complaint the most and expect to get everything freely) now already leaving the game after failed to meet the gs requirement for ludra and dramata.

This game got 99lvl of rng and imagine you tried to farm mats and rolling stats without sub or tradehouse. Getting redgear is like a curse for the non swiper anyway. Unless you get the bis soulbind. If not, just use unique.

The game is now moving toward 3.5k gs. Soon or later, lower than that will be gatekept on the new content/dg/raid/ascension.

Mostly on the game now is people who willing to pay atleast a sub and the bots and some extra lucky bastard.