I havent played for years, I left right before plains of duviri. I heard there’s now steel soul which is hard mode, and theres parkour 4.0 now? Is there still the massive powercreep problem?

In my old experience, its fun at the lower levels where you don’t know the optimal loadouts yet and playing solo so nobody can optimize the fun out of the game, though the game becomes more toxic as time goes on, you need incredibly specific time locked gear to do endgame stuff.

Grinding is hell, I heard it got even worse, time locked and super rare enemies with <1% drop rates for meta mods or a resource you need thousands of.

Microtransactions are mostly fine, you don’t need to spend any money, just be prepared to grind even more to trade for the super rare stuff in the marketplace.