Recent reviews by angelo

Dont buy it unless you have friends to play with, the game is mediocre at best by itself.
Graphics are bad, performance is even worse, gameplay is slow, clunky, repetitive and overral boring, maybe it will improve in the future but considering that its been in alpha for +5 years and it gets updated once per year i doubt that will happen.

Even after playing it for 4.5k hours i wouldnt recommend it. this game has no direction, it isnt a neither pvp game or pve game, it tries to but fails completely and the cashshop feels like it was intended for a mobile game.
This game starts as a really long tutorial, anything from lvl 0 to lvl 58 is a tutorial, because the world is so big with so many things to do and you cant learn them all in just a few hours, except that it isnt. it may look that way but in the long term there isnt a lot of things you can do and most parts of the world feel like fillers.

To begin with this game has the most unfair and dumb progression system ever created, once you reach lvl 61 all that matters is gear, you get your base boss gear and upgrade it until it reaches the TET stage, but the upgrading is completely RNG, so if you are unlucky you can waste billions of silver and months of playtime just to fail your enhances over and over again, while other people succeed in 1 or 2 tries reaching the same lvl of progression in less than 1 week because rng.

lets talk about the pvp, you want to have some fun playing a skilled based pvp game? well this game isnt for you, even if you get gear good enough for pvp classes are completely imbalance, theres classes that are basically a joke like the most new one: mystic. whats wrong with her? everything, she has one attack that goes through blocks, she has another attack that goes through iframes, she has the highest base defence of all classes, she has heals with really low cooldowns, she has infinite super armor and the best part she has a base 30% magic resist, you thing she gets something "balanced" with that? like she resis 30%magic damage but she gets 30% more meele damage? nah. she gets an unfair advantage over other classes without any reason, which is funny because the weakest class in the game (Sorc) deals magic damage, so if you were unlucky enough to pick that class without knowing how weak she was well have fun losing againts a class that can outheal every damage you can deal and pretty much any other class. Theres also dumb mechanics like 360blocks and some classes with an skill that has a "grab" effect that goes through blocks, why is dumb? because not all classes have it and makes it unfair, lets say you are a maehwa without a grab and you are fighing a class with infinite 360 block (valk or warrior) what are your choices? die. thats pretty much it, unless you want to waste 20 minutes baiting the other person out of his block you will not win that fight. Even tho this game has 15 classes theres no diversity, all you see is meta classes which kinda ruins all the fun.

Now lets go with pve, Lets start with some lifeskills:
Horse training: you can find horses in the wild, capture them and train them, it sounds fun right? well it isnt. horses are separate in tiers, most of the horses you find in the wild are really low tier and basically useless, you are better off sitting in the horse market for 2 hours buying high tier low lvl horses, once you get a female and a male you can train them, you know how you "train" them? you autopath from one place to another one for 15-20 hours, so basically you just leave your pc on for that time while you are at work or sleeping but if you want just for 20usa dollars you can buy an outfit that makes lvling horses 20% faster! once they are high lvl you can breed them for a chance to obtain a higher tier horse, it takes a couple of hours but you can speed it up with money, once is complete you can get your new horse, the horse you get is rng so lets say you breed 2 T6 horses and because rng you get another T6, well you can only breed female horses once so you will have to get another female horse, waste another 15-20 hours lvling her up to try again, but if you dont want to do that youcan pay for a "breeding reset coupon" use it on your female horse and try again for another horse! you do that until you reach the final tier horse (T8) but that doesnt end there, horse tier is meaningless if your horse doesnt have the right skills, how do you get the skills? well you get them randomly when lvling up, so if you are unlucky you will get a T8 horse with nothing but bad skills and you will be forced to waste hundreds of hours trying to get another one, unless you decide to throw more money at the game, buying skill change coupons and use them to get the right skills for your horse. thats pretty much what horse training is on this game, fun right?

Sailing: You can expend one month gathering logs and having workers build a ship, once is complete what can you do with it? nothing, literally nothing. there isnt any real sea content, theres a sea boss but hes really glitchy and you dont even do anything besides sitting there for 1 hour pressing 1 key to shot cannons. theres some sea monsters besides that but theres no poing on killing them, it isnt fun, you need to buy cannons with your own silver to kill them and they dont even drop anything you can sell, they drop guild materials which are basically useless. fishing on the deep sea is a waste of time, your fish will lose a lot of value before you reach land to sell it and if your rod runs out of durability you dont have where to repair it. so at the end you wasted 1 month building a ship you will never use.

Trading: Trading is pretty much locked behind a paywall, is the most profitable lifeskill in the game, you can process wood, have your workers make crates in one city and sell them in another one for millions of silver, the problem? in order to process wood efficiently you will have to get an outfit from the cashshop that allows you to process items in the storage and you will have max your character weight, how you do that? by training and eating a lot of carbs of course! (just kidding, you will need to pay around 40 dollars for that)

Fishing: pretty simple lifeskill, you buy a rod, go to the nearest beach or river, set your character to fish and go to do something else.

Gathering: another simple lifeskill, this one is mostly used to get materials for another lifeskills, mostly cooking and alchemy

Cooking: if you want to be "make the most" out of cooking you will have to buy a special cooking outfit that makes it faster, after that you just gather meat and cook things to sell in the market, pretty simple, pretty boring and theres no reason to do it because trading is betting

Alchemy: same thing as cooking but worse, materials are more expensive and harder to get so theres no point on doing it unless you are making your own elixirs.

Theres a couple more that are not even worth mentioning. so even if theres multiple lifeskills they are really boring and only 2 that are really profitable.

The rest of the pve content is killing monster for exp and money, you will have to pay money to buy pets in order to farm monsters, even though you can buy 5 pets for 50$ they are tier1 pets and when grinding you will be leaving a lot of loot behind, in order to grind properly you will have to get higher tier pets, how you do that? by buying more pets and breeding them, so more money. you will have to grind around 40-50 hours until you reach lvl 61 and become useful, after that will have to grind more for money to reach 220ap, why you need 220ap? because thats the requirement to grind in the "high lvl" areas, so once you reach that stage you can go grind in a place where you get more money and you do that for hundreds of hours because there isnt anything to do besides that, there isnt any end game content, i guess pvp is the "endgame" but how can you enjoy such a unbalanced pvp system? meta classes do nothing besides spam 2 or 3 skills, which kinda feels like WoW where people would macro their skills and just spam them, you can play one of the lower tier classes and use high skill combos but whats the point when other classes can kill you in 1 or 2 skills?

Edit: the pvp part is a little outdated thanks to recent changes, is still umbalanced tho