Im having fun, but something I am trying to spread around and was not mentioned at all on the preorder package page. Subs are tied to 1 server. If you roll on another server, you have to buy another sub for that. its not just your account subbed to the game for some asinine reason. First thing I have seen that is monstrously greedy to me. And supposedly they will off free transfers on the 14th for people to moev to their friends, but will they tell them their sub was only good for that server that made a character on?
I tested this myself. I am on israphel us east. Made a asmo on triniel, still on US east and it had no sub. Which is a pretty big thing with market access and remote storage plus other things.
It is a bit worse than that. Subs are server locked. Outfits are server locked. Passes are -character- locked. Alts have diminishing returns built in; Dungeons have a set number of runs before you start getting less loot, and that number is shared between all characters. If you make more than 4 characters, then the 5th onward will only get 50% of loot the first 4 get. Thankfully I have zero desire to make so many alts, haha.
From what I've seen so far, you would want to get your Alts strong enough to run Krao Cave on Conquest for the 200k unbound Kinah, and also be able to clear Nightmare each week. I've heard some people say that you can place all (or some) of your Mains gear in Server Storage and have your Alts spend their own resources on enhancing (haven't tried that yet).
I find it odd that the Exploration (easy) version of Draupnir drops the exact same loot at the exact some chance as the Conquest version of it, unless I overlooked something. So I guess the play is to farm that shitty boss for gold gear, then move on the Vakron for new armor and Krao for accessories. That should allow you to start running Transcendence for Arcana cards to finish building out your character.
Ran with several World Boss trains yesterday, and I'm convinced that while you will always get a chest, the contents of that chest are weighted by your damage. I only ever got Blues, Greens and mostly Artwork Scraps. Though the Blues will be useful for Supply Requests as they reward a nice amount of Abyss Points (I dislike pvp so I don't do Abyss, unless Asmo won access to the locked areas).
I DO like how everything is worthwhile to do, all the open world kill quests drop stuff that will make your character stronger over time (souls). Each of those souls will slowly level up the Genus Insight to give your Account passive stat increases and unlock the ability to roll for better and better stats.
Raes
I'll send off guild requests for my 2 characters, its funny that guild membership is character based, so each of your characters need to be invited.