Mach5

Play Lethal Company instead.

This, in this version boxing is a double edged sword. On one hand you can run multiple alts in low level zones that can farm adena for your main. On the other hand everyone else is doing the same so you end up with the higher gear/leveled people pking the entire map so their alts can farm since there will be an insane amount of alts in the 6x-7x zones.

Most likely, especially since NCwest has never been able to deviate from what KR says they can do. That said there is potential for this version if the stuff Enthused listed is addressed. I've played some "other" essence servers that I enjoyed because Lcoin dropped from mobs, pking was punished pretty hard, and they nerfed DK and Titan. That said if any one of those things isn't addressed it's almost certain the server will be dead in a couple of months if that. Nobody wants to drop $1k to just have low to mid tier gear, nobody wants to constantly get pk'd with no potential risk to the pker, and nobody wants to get 2 shot by 70% of the server that's running DK/Titan. 500 hp pots also not good for server health.

This has pretty much nothing in common with live or classic(granted I haven't played live in years).

Yeah that makes sense, I guess I never really thought of it because I always would just remote in periodically through the day to check my character.

I was probably too busy getting 2 shot by every titan and dk on Rose to ever run into that problem lmao

Yes it's essence

This, if Lcoin doesn't drop from mobs(or unless L8K packs are like $1 each there is no reason to play this server unless they don't release any p2w items at the start, then MAYBE there might be some decent pvp at the start of the server until they start adding the boxes. Even then though this version of the game is more pvp vs afk farming characters or just pking everyone, so maybe not. From my experience on essence bots aren't really an issue since there is a built in bot to farm and spam pots, not saying they don't exist but it seems kind of pointless based on how the game works.

I'm sure a new server would accomplish nothing, NC west ruined what little trust old players had in the company with how classic progressed. Plus, classic isn't really classic. I don't know of anyone that I play with that would come back to play a new server. I doubt they would even play if they were just releasing something like Interlude or H5 the way it was with no changes.

Would probably depend on their description of a "subscription" model. Even then I'm sure a lot of people are done with NCWest and NCsoft in general after being burned this time. Probably the only hope of a sub working and actually getting people to come is if Juji said sub only no p2w shop items period, not just "at launch". You can't argue that the game isn't done though, they've ruined sieges and oly, and open world pvp(which was basically non existent) is now completely dead with the teleport system. Everything that made the game good has been ruined to the point that the only thing there is to do in game is kill raids at set times at night. Awhile back I logged into live just to see how it had changed since I had quit and I thought it was horrible how the only thing to do was instances, nobody was grinding out in xp zones. Somehow that seems better than what we have here though.

US Mach5 AW main, formerly ShellShock Duelist main I believe Kain when I first started, later Bartz 102 Before GoD I think I only quit playing twice, one for a very short amount of time. Since GoD I've probably quit playing 6-7 times, game isn't the same to me anymore.