hi hi, i am a player in NA server, my ingame name is Florciita in case u need direct contact.
The game changed adding a system called awakening, and al so they added ultimate skills and more classes have been added to the game.
About gears, when the game started u only had to evolute an item, the same item all the way, now, during story u will be switching weapons and accesories, the final ark is going to give u some gears so u can start the dungeons and dailies, and yes the weapon is the upgradeable version so u can keep going with that one.
About weapon evolution, u have 2 lines for the evolution, one of them is kinda a cheap way and its about lvl a weapon following the dungeons path, it means, u will have lower prices in whats about materials but u need to farm some other materials exclusively from dungeons, like blackstones, silver scales, onix scales, those.
the other way u have to upgrade weapons is the raids path, content of 12 members, those raids give u the materials for evolution, so u need to raid weeklie to get those materials and advance fast, story gives u whats equivalent to aransu weapon, which means u need to farm the materials in temple of eluvium and scions keep, then, the next step would be grand celestial, which is that raid called nightfall sanctuary, ppl calls it TT.
Normally raid path for weapons is stronger but it can be way more expensive so, what ppl recommend is to take dungeon path untill stage 9 and then switch to the raid path, in this case considering where we are with the game, everything is about grand celestial weapon or upper, so i would recommend u to take ur weapon to the stage 9 of story, then get again to the next evolution line, which will start at stage 3, do it again in the dungeon path, and then when it gets to stage 9 switch to raid path so u can be in grand celestial stage 9 already, and u will easily find party for anything.
about the accesories, what u got from story is useless xDDD, so first of all, there is a nice event going on, opening the lapms will give u a material called wishing charm, with those u can buy a more updated and upgradeable set of accesories, get those, they are cheap, u only need the prophecy necklace and the skyreach gloves i think thats the name, for ring and earring get a clan that can help u get the ring and earring from nightfall sanctuary (TT), or just save some gold, its kinda cheap to buy them, once u get to that point u will be kinda ok in gears. Almost forgot it again xD, run at least 10 times the Sandstorm temple, that will make u able to get the bracelet which will increase significantly ur damage, also practice circle of sundering, a solo dungeon that will give u tranquility emblems, necesary to buy a bracelet that unlocks sanstorm temple one, u can get sandstomr temple bracelet by drop, so u could multi run that one for the accesory but u will still need the tranquility embles, so u can farm them at circle of sundering or buy from f10, sometimes they put it there.
Almost forgot about this, u have some helpers for damage, Soul Badge and mystic Badge, if u do mushin tower and a quest in moon refuge daily, u will get something called, martial token, u can use those in the dragon express and get a legendary mystic badge (those can be made fusing 2 soul badges) and a mystic badge (u can get those running temple of eluvium or scions keep), if u find hard to get the mystic badge from raids just farm those dailies and u will get it easily, there is also a reset for free at f10 to go again and do the daily, so u can get 3 martial tokens a day, also u can buy the soulshields from aransu, which are helpful for ur damage, its recomended to use soulshields in sets, like 3 pieces, 5 pieces or 8 pieces of the same set, u can also mix 3 and 3 depending on the sets, just check that part by urself to see what suits more ur class.
now about the gameplay of ur class, kfm normally had fire or wind, that changed, also the gameplay and the rotations, now there is a new specialization for the class, that one can become a wolf, to unlock that third specialization and also to unlock the section talents, u will need to do a purple quest called the legacy of the hongmoon clan, that will unlock everything about the skills and ways to play, like, for example, u can switch skills to damage or cc in the talents section, also u will see the 3 specs for ur class.
now about the ultimate skills, u can use them with G or B, depending on which one u want to use, those skills require to fill a bar, so u cant use them all the time.
what do players do now ?:
- dailies, that system gives u rewards depending on how many things u complette from the daily challenge, if u wanna finish fast just do 3 daily, if u can play more than 1 character it will be good to do the dailies at least 3 with each character, they will get solar energy with those dailies and those are helpful to buy things at the dragon express, things like upgradeable gems or keys to open weapon chests getting ur class weapon instantly, i would recommend to run 5 for dailies with ur main cuz it gives u something called scarled bloom, something like that, it was added due to the quarantine to help players, getting those will allow u to get pieces of soulshield from scarlet conservatory, 3 pieces of it is a really nice upgrade for ur damage, so work on that.
- Weeklies, currently, those are giving a good ammount of gold, just by running the places bottany center, titan chamber, hall of the keeper and hall of the templar, u will be able to get 100 golds, so focus on that, also it would be nice if u could get into a clan that can help u run the raids, at least temple of eluvium (VT), scions keep (SC) and skybreak spire (BT), that would be great weeklie gold, when u get stronge u will be able to run nightfall sanctuary (TT), Throne of oblivion (TOO), Silversteel laboratory, but for now focus on the firsts i mentioned. The weeklies have a counter too and depending on that u get rewards, u can complete until 7 with battlegrounds (6v6 pvp with gears) and some pve dungeons several times during the week.
- MSP, u will probably need a clan or friends to run this one, cuz the helpful way of running this is running until stage 6, that place will give u a material that lets u buy stronger soulshields, material for grand celestial weapon and some other useful things, ppl normally run this from friday to sunday cuz the reward by killing each boss is double.
- Moon Refuge, i dont recomend this place cuz i feel it kills the fun part of the game by forcing u to repeat all the time the same action to farm things that in my opinion are outdated or not gonna be so helpful, but i respect anyone who likes it or finds it useful, u can get non upgradeable gems, its a random box that gives u any gem, sometimes its frustrating cuz u could get same gem several times, i totally not recomend this to get gems cuz those are non upgradeable, ad i dont think gems are a so high plus to damage, but yeah, u can check that out and decide by urself.
to get some aditional items u can try koldrak, its like a dungeon that enables several times in the day and u can get some rewards from it, i think its a bit outdated alredy and not so useful but i see a lot of players running that, specially new players.
anything else i would say is pvp, arena for soulstones or battleground for moonstones.
thats all for now i hope this helps u to have a beter idea of the game right now :P.