Quote Originally Posted by LongsunZhao View Post
Well if this is the case, It has an hardcore mode and a casual mode.

And I'm a casual gamer. I can't get the so called Hardcore Armor.

But I'm charged exactly the same as every single one of you, yet I'm not entitled to nothing because I'm a casual gamer. I play this game and I work as hard at is as anyone else. Why am I being peanalized for it?
Like all MMOs, there's quite a bit of grind involved. I don't think anyone truly likes the grind, but you do have to put in the proper amount of effort if you want to progress. You can simply do just a small amount of the grind each day and progress over a longer term. For example, it took me around 3 months to get all of my DoH classes to 50 by casually submitting a combination of NQ and HQ leves.

As for the i170 DoH gear, that takes a lot of effort to get. Once you have all of your classes ready (months of work), it'll take around 1.5-2 hours of grinding just for a mainhand tool. If you don't have the time or are not willing to put in that kind of effort, the developers have included the i180 tools, which serve the same purpose but take longer to get. As of now, there are no 2* recipes for culinarian, so that i180 tool should be top of the line for a good while yet.

I pay the same monthly sub as everyone else, but my battle gear (crafted) isn't even good enough for me to enter Alex normal. It's something that I've accepted since I haven't put in the effort for proper battle gear progression, not the fault of the developers or anyone else.