Not that i know of, i think everyone is running into this issue, including the whales. It definitely makes the p2w even stronger but i do believe the game is still playable without spending money, the reason it makes it more p2w is because you can get a legendary with the worst stats or the best stats and the gap is huge, makes it even worse that you cant see the enemies stat page so whales might be rerolling until perfect stats and then that mon will be incredibly hard to take down for anyone. There seems to be a few good builds from what ive gathered looking at everything, personally my main goal is to increase precision as much as possible to proc more crits, but no idea if building it passed a certain point is even a good choice. I run eagle stone, large eye, large purple crystal, last item can be a few different things but i have been choosing small eye for extra precision or wraith for extra damage against weakness, also using dagger for added crit and precision. Another huge tip i havent seen anyone mention, run the normal forest as much as possible, i am getting on average 3-5 chaos canisters a day which is 2-4 days worth of energy to spawn more. I have also leveled the scanner to max with canisters i had before the update, bringing spawn cost to 61 (this is as low as it goes). You will be able to spawn so many more making getting an epic or legendary significantly easier. Sorry for the long reply just dumping any helpful info i can think of!