Hi guys, i'm playing this server almost from Start and i want to give a real and honest review to you.
I want to mention that whatever i am writing is just my opinion and i hope no one will feel offended by that.
Why i am writing this review right now and not earlier? I feel this Server right now at a balanced and good state, so i felt that it is the right time to leave a review for everyone accessable to read.
So let's start.
Firstly, i want to start with the staff, behind the DynZen Nostale Server.
They are listen to the community, if u want to suggest anything, they are always willing to hear you, same for feedback or any other similar things.
Especially Frost is working hard on his Server, this guy must look like Gaara because he probably don't have enough sleep for weeks already.
The 4 new hired GS are testing very well stuff before patch coming out, to make sure that no one will abuse something.
3 of them, "Blush", "CarlosC" and "Silent Draw" are also really active on discord to solve any problems or questions u got.
The bottom line is that the staff overall is really good.
Community:
Except from some PVP competition with kind of toxicness on discord, the whole community is helpful and nicely to each other. There are also enough fams who are willing to invite you.
F2P vs. P2W:
Since Frost and his team changed really a lot, (thank's for everyone who helped to made this Server to this state) u will feel that u are not in any way forced to spend real money for this Server.
U can obtain at late game, by farming, 30-50kk per hour (act 6.2). As example, 1 Amu for betting Hero eq is worth 5kk at NPC.
If u want to reach or get something quicker, u will have to spend Money, like for weekly pity boxes.
With a new patch, u also get from Erenia, Zenas & Fernon (Fernon 9h per week) "Prophet's Arcane Relic". With that item u can obtain (for different values) nice stuff:
NosMerchant Medal (7 Days)
Golden Specialist Card Holder
Pet Bead
Fairy Bead
Mount Bead
Specialist Partner Card Holder
Partner Bead
Partner Skill Ticket (Single)
Perfume
Point Initialisation Potion
by that saying, if u need something specific or special, u can even buy ~ 2.300 Zen Coins, (calculated at 15k per Zen Coin) by just farming 1 Hour in act 6.2. Calculated in real $, it's worth of 6$ in total.
Everything from Zen Shop is tradeable, even the Pity weekly boxes u can buy from players who selling Zen at the Bazar.
So, this Server is definitively Free to Play. If u want to get something quicker, feel free to donate and support the Server and their team.
Gameplay itself:
Since newest updates and patches, week over weeks, the gameplay feel very smooth from beginning to the end game content. U obtain from level 15, 30, 45, 55, 65, 73, 85, 90 at a NPC called Eri free equipment r5+7, they are costum made and got some nice passive. Also u will obtain at level 30 a free Pet called Boxer, which got also some nice buffs. (all ress 55% and a defensive otter effect, just lower) which can support you easily to c25 and even c50. Since u can buy Buff devices (to avoid tons of multi chars, or abusing raid's, ic's etc.) u will have no struggle anymore to do anything u want from start on.
Other thing's that might help you from start:
Act 1 mount, to assist you to go from point a to b
45 Res s0 at NPC, to assist u for different situations.
30% limited fairy's (up to 50%) at NPC, that assist you for lvling without doing quest's.
with that changes, u can even level from 1 to 90 without any quest easily now if u wish. U are not forced to do Quest's anymore. (After patch 1.09)
If u doing Quest's, u will be highly rewarded because u will reach level 85 now and gain Lockets after every ts in act 1, around ~65 of them in total after finishing act 1 quest's. Each one can assist you a lot with following items:
Mother Nature's Rune Pack
Fairy Booster x1 ~ x2
Ancelloan's Blessing x1 ~ x2
Tarot Card (The Devil)
Tarot Card (The Star)
Tarot Card (The Sun)
Divine Recovery Potion x5 ~ x10
Fairy Experience Potion x1 ~ x2
Soulstone Blessing x1 ~ x2
Guardian Angel's Blessing x1 ~ x2
Experience Potion x1 ~ x2
Attack Potion x2 ~ x5
Defence Potion x2 ~ x5
Energy Potion x2 ~ x5
Wings of Friendship x2 ~ x5
Speaker x3 ~ x5
Full Moon Crystal x5 ~ x10
Buff Device
Gourmet Pet Food x1 ~ x2
Partner Medicine x1 ~ x2
Cylloan Spring Water x5 ~ x10
Those Locket's u can also gain from daily and weekly too. So if u playing and raiding more, u will be rewarded more. 2 per Daily and 10 per weekly. IC will prove u with a chance of 50% 1 more locket every 2 hour.
As u can see from facts, you got really a lot of help to reach higher content.
The raidboxes for all 5.2/6.1/6.2 raidboxes got slightly improved, higher chances to gain EQ and less useless stuff. (4-5 EQ as average from fernon every 50 boxes, with a test of 1k boxes in total).
IC rewards got improved by a lot. U can obtain 42 full moons and 50 Feather's and much more, from lv.80+ ic which especially help newbies to upgrade sp's or selling them for gold or assist you on the journey.
EQ and Classes itself are very balanced overall from every class, also the Sp's since DynZen got even the Balance patch from official nostale as non emu server. This doesn't mean its perfect, but very well made for now.
There are much and much more changes i missed for sure, on a good way. But this isn't a overwiev of all content from Server. There is much more stuff waiting for you now and in future. The Server overall is really top1 and if u want to enjoy nostale, with high official vibes, u should try DynZen Nostale out.
If u want to check out all changes from start to now, u can doing that by checking this side:
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I can recommend it highly.
If this review helped you to decide on a positive way, feel free to leave a thanks.