Hi,
I use to be a person that was defending BNS against people that were calling it "pay 2 win" because i was able to farm everything in the game through sheer time, effort and choice. with my current wealth i can have max gem / soul / etc day ONE . I was considering trove and box as a way to catch up for new comers or a way for whale to flex their epen through they HM level which isnt game breaking.
I'm the kind of person that have a full account and try to do 11*BT 11*VT 11*Weekly challenge 11*Daily challenge 11*event , do my daily Hard mode train, CM, try get ranked for HM, got 2-3 TT group, i even casually help on a second ET raid and when done with all that i will go farm MSP or lastest dungeon.... eck i even do some BT or event (i buy gems which i break for powder) on second account for extra gold ...
With all that i make at the very least 5K gold every week which mean every 3 month cycle and i buy at least 1200 trove keys + 400 with hm coin ... if i still need something from trove .. i basicaly at least buy max daily trove keys or boxes from F10...
That said until unity came i was able to compete with every kind of whale ....
But now, lets say it clearly. Unity refine splendor system is PAY TO WIN. NO LESS.
1/ It is not achieveable through sheer effort. You would need to spend 49 HM for a CS reset .. on average it cost about 100g for 1 blue box (not including merchant) .... probably about 1000g for a purple fuse and over 10K gold for a legendary .... you need 15 of them not including Ascension stone which you can only MAYBE obtain once a day (you need RNG to get a purple box and then even more RNG for a leg one!). basicaly even for a crazy farmer like myself it would take a year of gold to get it .... for a regular player i would say 5 year maybe 10 probably never ...
2/ it is game breaking , with it you will do 100-200k more dps from the +AP% bonus on skill and even more from the PERMANENT 100 AP ... how fair is that !?
3/ it is RNG ! that mean you can spend 500K gold and still be stuck in purple !
4/ time gated => you can only buy 10 CS reset a day !
Even for myself which was defending the game i can no longer say this game is not pay to win. well done ncwest ! And probably good bye soon if nothing is done.