Exuberance

Okey, dont get this wrong but it's kinda funny that you, a new player to the game who has roughly spent a month playing (from what you're saying) claims that you don't actually need alts to farm gold and materials. That's not the case at all. Running dungeons with Alts is actually 10x more efficient than running the same dungeon with 1 character because of the Daily quests. You don't make any gold at all (unless you get a rare drop/scales and people start bitting gold for it) you only farm some materials up. Also why do you compare yourself with people who are better geared ? You literally say you are a new player, do you presume you can match up to any high tier geared player in just 1 month of playing? As a result, i can't really understand what the point of your post: 1) To complain because you couldn't get high enough gear (to match the 40-60 mil dps players) because you payed 1.5k Euros on trove? 2) To bash the game because of the insane p2w (i agree with you on that, btw) ? I was playing BnS daily for 2 years straight between 2017-2019 and i can tell you from experience that the best way to make progress is to have a dedicated group of people (static) for raids and to farm you weekly/daily missions. Alts are also a super good way to make money. And of course, Trove. Trove is worth it though if you have a specific goal for what you need to upgrade, im quite surprised you managed to figure everything out as to what you need to buy and focus on to use Trove efficiently to your advantage. This game is heavily pay to win. However, you can still play casually and still have a decent gear, if you want to go hardcore and be top-end gear prepare to waste half of your fortune on it. That's pretty much it.