After playing this server since October, I feel like I could give a pretty good perspective on this OT.
Since I started playing, they have added some features such as mining, achievements, farming, etc. I really enjoy the aspect of the daily dungeon feature that is supposed to revolve around people working together to complete the dungeon and get a pretty decent reward. There are some very good positives that come from this server, but there are a lot of short falls as well:
Donators: I feel just like, what others have posted before, that this server is way too bias towards donators (myself being one of them). The admins telling me that its not a pay to win, technically they are correct. I feel like its a "Pay to get way ahead" server. I can either pay money to get these items, or I can grind for hours to get a fraction of the items I would get if I paid for them. There are two specific donators, who I know for a fact can kill my guild of 15 people, just those two alone. Also as said in previous posts, the gap between non donors and donors is ludicrous.
Solo Hunting: Literally completely pointless. You can hunt by yourself until about level 600, then it becomes hours of agonizing grinding to get to the next levels. Meanwhile, 8 people that go teamhunt that were the same level as you gain 600 levels in the same amount of time that you spent solo hunting. Now, I'm not saying you should get the same amount of exp that that whole team gets, but it needs to improve in some way.
Archlight Crates: Good concept, I like the idea that you can work to make your character stronger, and get some crafting items in the process. But, I feel like its very poorly ran. From what I can tell, its almost impossible to get Archlight Keys (For people who don't play, its what is used to open the crates) UNLESS you donate. Yes, I've been told before that you can get them in numerous ways. But again pointing to that donator bias, I can donate 80 euro to get 50 keys - or I can mine for 30 hours (Bot) and hopefully get 10-15 keys out of it.
I don't hate the server one bit, and I really do enjoy playing this server, and the players that I have met on here. I just thought I should point out some things that I have seen over the past few months that should probably be addressed.
Yours Truly,
Black Reign <3