My opinion on it is that there's a mix of both good and bad :
For the good, you need to first ask yourself if the event is actually worth it. The Resurgence emblems gives rewards like Lycan's fire wings, TT soul shield 1-3, GC steel, Onyx scales, Divine Orb fragment and octagonal gems.
The wings are cosmetics and the rest is better off getting them normally rather than with this event at all :
> TT soul shields, you can get 1-5 from MSP and MSP stage 6 requires less gear for sure than what this event is even asking for. Besides imagine everyone would be able to do the event ? Everyone would end up with TT 1-3 ? Trust me that's already a huge boost and VT ss should still be the "most non-free accessible soul shield" in my opinion.
> GC steel meh, progressing through TT should be the way to go.
> Onyx scales -> multiple fragments from DST/BC, whole scales from BC.
> Divine orb frags are for people attempting challenge mode, which most of them are end-geared anyway.
> octas gems are good I admit, they should just make the powders a tad more accessible. However Heptas are more than fine for a starter/progressing player, AP is already boosted by enough via. high lvls also not to mention AP is far from being everything, % of bonus damage from accs/soul/etc is far more valuable.
It does suck that the fancy cosmetics are being locked behind that huge wall but multiple people said it already : if you are here for the must-get-to-progress items, they are available through Legendary Orbs, there shouldn't be complaints overall. It's far from being a pay2win event and the reasons why will be said in the bad, ironically. For example, ping, if you Trove your gear up to GC3 and have 300ms, you might still not make it despite having "p2w" your gear that up.
Now, for the bad... not everyone despite their gear, can sustain 1.3m/s of dps.
There is a good reason to be thrown up by this event and it's the fact not everyone has 90ms in-game. Most of people actually do have an ok/mediocre ping at best. I play Warlock and my Helix count can get crippled even if I'm only past 40ms because it's just bs how this game acts for most of the classes in general.
I do admit as well that the gear needed is pretty high, just check the LFP function on F8 for Burning Mausoleum it requires Grand Celestial 3 lol and here we have another problem : the event weapon isn't as good as it seems. Slower procs makes it not so much of an increase for some classes and you're more likely better off staying with Aransu 6+
However, are people playing this game good enough too ? And right there I'm talking about micro-management of your rotation.
Look, frankly I kind of doubt it, just check how people are playing this game :
+ they ask 1.5-1.6k for VT, I did joined some of them and they're still traps LOL Not being able to clear mechanics at all, let alone knowing them if you reduce the party to 1.4k.
+ they can't even make a fast run of BT with mid-maxed BT gear, they need maxed VT gear. (lol)
+ they're asking 1.4~1.5k as well for braindead dungeons with little to no mechs needed anymore. (The Shadowmoor is an absolute joke now)
People are mostly bad and it's a fact. I might sound like a jerk but that's the truth. People need to stop being spoonfeed like no tomorrow, faction chats are the ways to realise how bad the situation is nowadays. People don't love the game itself in reality (high geared players mostly), people don't care about this game, they go in, pick a class and instead of discovering it, literally asks every single question about it such as "WHICH BADGE DO I TAKE ?" "BALEFUL OR SERAPH ? XXXXXXXXXXD" "flYiNG kiCK oR dRaGOn fiST ??!!?!".
But I also don't think this forum is the good place for that, just check how many people were thrown up by the first Realmrift Supply Chain event. You needed to do mechanics all over again, people complained. The second time, this event bore its fruits : absolutely no reactions needed, overpowered Soju spam and just mashing buttons, resulting in literally free VT ss if you were lucky enough. Very interesting indeed.
People might act I'm some elitist/hardcore player but funny enough, I don't even play the game that much either, I am just astonished about how people can find this game "hard", all you need to do is to educate yourself about Blade and Soul and put in a little effort in playing along the game.
Now thus said for the players, maybe NC Soft needs to step up their game too. Players need to grind, but don't let them grind for nothing too aka. shitty rng on soul shields for example, or horrible blocking via. legendary jewels. (500g to get stage 4 accs xd^^)