Then dont play AL.
Webzen made the attack speed of mobs much faster, you got more cooldown on your pots then in CM, and your basic stats are a bit lower then in CM.
Therefore the armor stats are weird, like 15% physi resistance at trousers, etc.
And you often have free spots, cause all that new-era-webzen gamers grind in BG.
I have spend half a year or more to make my knight lv95+ on CM, nowadays they make a knight lv1 to lv99 in 3 days. Webzen donates normal cm uniques to the players, meanwhile they have better uniques now, like barom rings with allskills+1, shutas with crit or cast, etc.
And without wc you dont come very far. its not p2p, but you need alot of wc only to survive, cause everyone is running around on wc now.
I dont recommend you to play webzen archlord. Better wait for working episode 2 CM-style private server.