I tried playing on the live server but I was turned off by the cash shop junk and how top heavy the game is, everyone is level 100+ with fab gear and it felt lonely at the bottom. Plus Prontera is a mess and lags my game given how many people are vending there.
So I'm trying out this small private server called Payon Stories. And I made a swordsman. The game feels just like I remembered, well sort of, because I played during the private beta before features like blacksmithing were added in. When I played cards were new so I need to learn a whole bunch of stuff but it's fun! I'm aiming to make this character a hybrid knight and farm mummies in the pyramid dungeon or orcs.
I have fond memories of playing the game on this likely long dead private server and I barely had any awareness of the game mechanics. All I knew was that I could farm monsters to get cute pets to drop, and that's what I did, going zone to zone collecting all the tameable monsters.
tbh that's really all I need in an MMO I think
The pet system seems cool I haven't played around with it. Like I said this is new to me because in the beta it wasn't there, sounds like a good memory.