Coming back after a 4 year break, have some doubts

No one listened when i told them before, but i urge u to listen, leave and never return

matgfs wrote: »

1 - How is APS in the game right now?
2 - What class would you guys consider the best for PVMing at the current state of the game?
3 - What about farming? If I start playing, for example, with a Psy, will I be able to farm lategame?
4 - What are the current methods of making some cash? (outside of paying real money =p)
5 - What are your opinions on the game right now? Is it worth coming back for casual PVE?

1: I play cleric as a main, so I can't speak 100% to the state of aps builds, but late-to-end-game pve isn't as kind to aps as old PWI was. TT, FC, old SoT/Aba could be cleared so easily by aps builds, but bosses in new instances have a special buff that prevents them taking damage from high-aps. Sins and BMs roll dph/damage-per-hit now from what I've seen. I believe to get yourself a good aps set these days you need to think about r8 recast to be strong enough for endgame, and that can be a painfully long process of rerolls that might never get you the stats you need. Again though I'm not a good authority on this point.
2: If you're going to casually play and can't afford to dump cash in the game (and I absolutely would NOT recommend cashing in this game considering the sad state it is in) then you're best going with a class that is greatly needed regardless of gear - seeker, veno, and bm being the top choices. Barbs are also in high demand but require better gearing.
3: Psys are solid dd even without r9, though to be perfectly honest, farming coin in game for f2p players has become very, very difficult given the current state of things.
4: One of the few ways of farming coin these days are from Flowsilver Palance (FSD/J)/Unchartered Paradise (UP/D/J). Though it can be hard to get into a squad with anything under r9 gear, and there's some requirements as to sky levels and progression in primal (a "newer" map you might not know) that will take some time. Without at least g16 gear, it would be difficult to survive in some of these runs.
5: I have soooo much nostalgia for this game, but my opinion of it in its current state is very poor. As you may have seen from other threads in this forum, this latest expansion is hitting the playerbase hard and many are leaving in frustration. My above replies all paint a similar picture: you need to get yourself to a decent place gear-wise in game to do anything advanced, but the ways in which to do that for new/returning players has almost completely dried up. My faction on Tideswell is one of the oldest from old Raging Tides server that's still around, and we're sort of mid-size, we do TW each season and do decently, but our focus used to be recruiting players of any gear type to help teach them and establish them in the game. This latest update is straining us very, very hard. We can't pull together a decent enough number of players (who can all be online at the same time due to timezone differences... we're spread across NA, EU, and SEA/OCX) to do the challenging new base trials content, and we're losing members because of it. Others are just not logging in and slowly dropping from the game (myself included... I log occasionally to help with TW and that's mostly it these days). Our leader, who's led us for 7+ years, is struggling to manage the faction in a state of the game which truly feels like it's punishing small to mid-size factions.

If all you want is something super-casual to waste some time and play some pve without caring about endgame, pvp, or getting too invested in the game's direction, by all means use PWI as a way to blow off steam and maybe make some new friends. But I can't recommend enough NOT to give them any of your money right now or get too invested. I for one refuse to help inflate their ARPU numbers until they get their house in order (if that's even possible anymore).

Find an other game.

> @dagoddominator said:
> not worth it.
> because continuing to play this game should be classified as a mental illness.

That's the reason I deleted my main (bm rb1) and because I didn't want an alt started all over. F2P for me is just for having fun. But the real peops that can be classified as mentally retardedare the people you see on an afk spot like in Archosaur. No need to be online while doing nothing unless if you are in the need to show your faction is inactive. As for me, already lvl35. Got a Snowspirit Feline instead of a Purple Fox in Celestial Vale.

Go play another game, cashed or farmers get done the bad hand just play another game