Too much disparity

I feel that there is too much disparity between those who buy VIP status and those who don't. I'm not talking about VIP1.. i mean like VIP3 and above. They are too powerful. They **** (there is no better word for it) lobies in the wild and on the Priates boats. I know that there needs to be bonus for those who spend the bucks, and I know it's necessary to have the people to spend money too. The trick is, how do you balance it so that the people who won't/can't spend money stand a chance vs. those who can drop $30+ a week. You will find that the majority of your players are those who don't spend money. They will quit it if they continue to get raped like they do. You need to find a good balance. I don't feel like the game is there yet.

Also, there are still SEVERAL bugs. One is that you have to refresh very often, and sometimes can't get back into the game if there is a special thing going on... like banish baal or the Noble Lady.

Not at all. I have not spent one dime on this game and I am ranked 7th or so...and have the 4th best hero in the game power-wise.

Tynon is a beast, I can vouche for him.. except when he picks on me in the arena :P

He's a worthy adversary whenever we PvP in the wild

:)

Well a lot of the things you get with Gems are things you also get just by playing the game. There are very few things that can only be purchased with Gems.

What the OP means is that if you have gems you can "buy your power" in the sense you buy those millions of credits/coins and then use the gems to also reset cooldown times on talents/smithing and can buy tons of runes easily.

The talents right now make up the majority of your players power followed up by runes and miles behind your actual equipement comes in last for how much it adds to your overall power.

My gear is miles better than near everyone that has 200-400k more power than my toon but since I dont have gems to spend on cooldown timers I cant power skill talents and can not buy tons of coin to buy millions of runes either.

This game is very "pay to win".

As a test why not give me a character for just 1 day that represents a "whale gamer" that can and do spend $10,000 or more in the very first week of a server opening and Ill show you exactly how broken the current systems are.

Dawn is right....you really don't need money for this game at all, they GIVE you free gems...I have over 800 still now and I have almost 500k power.

You then got lucky with the noble lady because you dont get that many free from the 7 day event.

They really need to make gear level and rank mean a lot more in terms of character power or itll be a full pay to win game past the first week of play.

You get gems from the first 6 days too. AND from completing quests you can get gems. AND from completing daily tasks, like the Labyrinth. AND the daily Noble Lady.

I think I made myself clear....

I think this game is very well balanced. If someone is ranked high, chances are they got there out of good game play. Most of the Guild I'm in is not VIP status, and they are ranked higher than myself. I'm VIP4 :) The amount of Gems that are given away or earned are more than sufficient to grow at a fast pace.