Many many years ago blue protocol was announced and failed, then I was forced to try genshin impact during the epidemic. Then years it came back as star resonance. I was hoping to try a new mmo and give me the goody good chemicals i got from playing WoW or FFXIV as those games eventually disappointed me after years of playing. Well sad to say star resonance disappointed far to quickly, only took less than a month.

1. Farming gold tier 60 gear was awful. I played smite oracle and they want luck and crit stats to function properly. Lets just say i never got one piece after using 20 cheer up treats and farming that dungeon for hours. So basically the farming for gear takes to long with no guarantee or promise of a pay off. if you are not using cheer up treats, you have to run the dungeon 5 times to guarantee a gold gear drop, which can take from 5 minutes to 15 minutes depending how good or bad your group is, you can do the math. After all that to only see luck mastery or crit haste gear, wasting all that time for nothing starts to feel really bad and not worth the effort, especially when you have to farm 4 more dungeons to achieve the right stats on gear again.

2. The story telling in this game is awful. Hardly any voice acting, and the characters just standing very still like they are lifeless is bad, they dont feel alive. Overall the body was there but it was lifeless. would not play this game for its story.

3. The emblem system gimmick for the mastery dungeons. Why the hell do i not get the currency to level up my emblem/passives from the mastery dungeons themselves? That is the only real place it matters. I shouldn't have to leave my computer on while i sleep to afk farm for 8 hours killing random mobs in the world as my only source to get the currency, it should drop from mobs and bosses inside the actual dungeons.

4. Lastly, concerning class switching and upgrade books. I hate that I can't multi class with at least one other class. I say this because cosmetics and imagi are locked to one character and not shared, and its already time consuming to play one character. also the upgrade books make it impossible to play another class because if you don't upgrade your skills your are not killing anything in current content. only whales can afford to buy extra books for multiple classes.

My final thoughts. I enjoyed the dungeons themselves and how the classes played, the monster farming was ok. But the story, gear farming, and class switching were the major killers of the game for me.