This could be a good Game, but it's not, it is just a Gamble.
It shows fundamental lack of understanding of the developers about what they are doing, what the players need and what annoys the players most. Also the developers seem to have started releasing content while this game should still be considered as Bata game, because it does have bugs in every function it offers. Also some people are losing their gears and stuff from inventory in random occasions.
Besides that people are loggin into Battlefields multiple times with one and the same character at the same time to get multiple rewards, which I think should be considered as hacking, in Shadowveil Assassination mode there are also people clearly hacking, and everyone seems to be botting at the ore spawns - which I can understand and tolerate, because it is just made so annoying - and if you don't have several hours every day to make any tiny progress at all you are forced to sit around and click all few seconds or minutes to farm this damn irregularly respawning ore hundreds of times every day.
This game is in it's core a typical Pay 2 Win game, where you pay a horrendously big price to get a little bit of ingame currency. Nevertheless people are stupid enough to invest into this "game" every month to feel like making progress and then telling everyone they are just lucky when crafting Legendaries - which ofc nobody should believe.
Besides that the chinese company (NetEase) that owns this "game" seems to be reducing the costs for the server drastically atm, they are beginning to merge servers, and reduced the server capacities for open zone instances (now for pvp areas) already dramatically, so the server cannot even catch up with people trying to use skills when they hunt field bosses or farm mobs for rep/mats, it leads to permanent lags and the so called "skill bug" - which is not a correct description of what' happening.
If you ever want to play this game, make sure you never ever invest a single cent into this, because this will only tell the developers that it is totally ok to release sh*t and make money with it, if you want to play games you should do something for your comunity and avoid investing anything into a "game" like this which is basically not a game at all but a Gamble.
Every function has a "random" chance to upgrade/roll/improve stuff. Ofc nobody knows how much you have to invest into the cash shop to improve your personal luck factor, but as this is a common function in modern Gamble Design it will also be present in this Gamble.
Don't ever think about playing a melee char, if you want to do so then chose a tank, or you are just f***** because every boss spawns tons of pools around him, the closer you are to the boss the higher is the pool density. Rangers have basicall the same defenses as a Paladin for example, and that melee class has no advantage to survive those pools, if it's not played as tank spec. Rangers have barely a problem evading those pools because they will almost never spawn where they are, and they can use any skill while moving. Pala as dps spec for example does have a skill that grounds him for 3 seconds and using it will lead to death in any bossfight where you cannot survive the pools.
What I like about this bug collection Crusaders of Light is that it has an autofollow mode, sadly it is fundamentally bugged and does not work as intended, but no wonder if the developers are not even able to program a working TAB FUNCTION to target - who would wonder about everything else being crap code.
If you stand in front of 3 mobs, and you tab 3 times, you will target 1 mob once and another one twice, but never ever be able to target the third one, especially in pvp it's impossible to target what you want.
When I started to play this Gamble as IDLE-Game it was running very smooth on my mini ITX, but after some patches it began to lag, now it's just a lag-o-rama.
All 15 minutes you have a popup in the middle of the screen, even in hard dungeons which you have to click away to see anything at all, they want to make you buy from the shop with it. Also there is a terrible scrolltext banner in the upper part of the screen totally distracting from what is going on in a dungeon, combined with the terrible interface and controls (which are ridiculously bad) this game is a horror for anyone who enjoys personally adapted screens to be able to focus on the important things.
Besides that the devs have an attitude like the chinese state system, they add an icon called SYSTEM as your FRIEND (politically this means : the chinese system is your friend !!!!! wtf), which cannot be deleted, but the word SYSTEM itself is banned from the chat of the international client, which brings chinese censorship of speech to the whole world. Also the world chat has a stupid "event" which kidnaps and forces you to read the world chat while it is happening, if you have something important like a chat in your team in a dungeon or guild, no matter, the system happening in the worldchat is more important it will switch your chat automatically to read it instead of what you want. Individualism in this "game" is practically non existent, and you have no free choice of what to do in certain aspects. The "game" keeps on poping up several things, even if you did finish those events already and you cannot participate anymore, it will keep terrorizing you with popups and visally rap*s you to get your attention.
Also the grouping function is the biggest cr*p I have ever seen in my life, people can chose a target dungeon and then when you join their group, they will instantly start combat wherever they need some idi*ts to help them and most of the time you cannot even quit the party anymore (in Boss fights).
The biggest terror feature is that you are being spammed by party invites if you are close to any dungeon, and every invite interrupts you from whatever you are actually doing and closes all windows like bags etc. There are also some players that abuse the duel system to terrorize people who want to farm ore or collect plant material, they can keep challenging to a duel every time the material spawns which will interrupt the other player when he tries to farm so those people can farm it themselves instead. As if it would not be already terrible enough, that you have to spend half a day at the ore spawn to get your damn material every day. The last and very annoying point for now is that every noob will add you once you did make a daily party raid with him, and this person will most likely keep on spamming invites for parties and events all day long until he will (like most) give up the game. You have only a blacklist for 10 ppl and it is constantly filled with scum, but everytime you are being added by another new noob who keeps on terrorizing you, you have to remove someone else, who will in many cases then instantly start to spam you again. You cannot prevent being added as friend.
In this "game" there is no end to bugs and not working "features" - those developers have never in their life ever seen a game themselves, or even played this "game" themselves, it's a big pile of trashcode, and every patch that happens creates a bunch of new bugs, that come in with new content.
If you wonder how people got a strong character in this game, mostly it is because they bought a ready leveled and geared character for hundreds up to thousands of dollars from various websites, that offer their botted characters. You can also see them offering characters in the games worldchat. Don't let them fool you, they will say "I am never using the cash shop" but they do, and if they don't they did already buy the character so they do not need to cash shop anymore.
Don't play this cr*p !
