So I'm really enjoying myself some good ole ever crack, but what I had once thought was an optional expansion is actually quite needed if you want to be worth your salt at higher levels.
The optional expansion while including mercenaries and the beast lord class also enables the ability to reforge your armor. This is actually extremely powerful in here because of what you can convert stats into. In wow it helped you gain maybe 10% more effectiveness. Here it seems like 30% if not more.
If you are 6 boxing like me that's 2xpac per account x6 or $480 to be able to hit level 95 and this isn't even including subscriptions.
All I can say is holy shit they need a sale like wow had. $10 for the optional xpac and $20 for the latest. I means it's been out for 6 months! And the optional has been out for what looks like 2 years!

Its a business but that's quite a barrier. Hoping a sale comes up soon...