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Grab your free reset token (premium) from f10 and reset the spiders quest. Trade the powder (4 powders per quest turnin) + 1 spider box for new box from the spiders daily. Receive additional buds and a chance for gold tokens to sell to vender. Use the orbs to buy the random soulplate box. Try for acc / crit but don't spend to much time on this. Also, buy your belt / gloves for buds or tokens, forget which. Learn crafting to make the soulplates to add stats. (gathering no longer exists, so will take you a few days for level 5 crafting) Learn crafting for transformation stones, Get your 6 soulstones from the daily in the soulstone planes. (don't bother trying to do bosses, bots 24/7 one shot bosses) Grind buds until your eyes bleed, get the 6 gems for buds. For buds, you can also buy mats needed to level your weapon. After you have soulplates and gems, buy exp charms. Once you are around 1600 ap or so, it's swipe for ncoincs or you are at a wall. MSP requires 1800ap (for celestial steel), dst and above requires more ap than msp. Since the patch, gold is the new wall.

change permissions on the folder to everyone > full control (allow), and see if that makes a difference.

Try this out, it worked for my brother and I, is a bit scary as you need to add access permissions to Everyone. Rclick(right click) NCSoft folder, lclick properies Click on Security tab > edit > add in that bottom box, type Everyone > lclick 'check names' > lclick okay lclick on Everyone in the top windows then at the bottom, lclick full control allow. lclick okay and lclick yes, wait a while for it to finish and try the game. this works too, if 'run admin' doesn't resolve issues ie not loading or loading very very slowly. runnning software as admin usually works unless explicit permissions disallow inheritance.