Pay 2 win will usually only make buying weapons easier but it says nothing about skill level or fighting ability, let alone learning self created skills. It will bring in more people and more guilds but if those guilds only rely on having the best equipment without skilled players than they will just be a little more resilient cannon fodder (hopefully, otherwise the game balance would be broken and shift towards blacksmiths and potion makers. The author would not do that with an elementalist as the main character, or would he?)
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