The Good:
I love this game. I have neglected food and work and sleep and health for this game.
I love the post-apocalyptic fantasy vibes and the gorgeous graphics and the FREE-to-play model. It's so easy to get lost in the dozens of different currencies and achievement trees and upgrades and above all-- the beautiful wings.
The concept is similar to Diablo (but its free!) and each item has its own backstory and hero tale and there are hours of sidequests that are available daily for generous rewards. You can spend a good bit of time just cashing in all the rewards that are squirreled away in different places on the board.
The Bad
You MUST KNOW your server name. You will LOSE YOUR CHARACTER AND ALL PROGRESS if you forget your server name. Names will be something like EST-3000 but if you sign in to EST-3001 you are a NEW PLAYER and all previous progress does not exist for that server.
Also... the gameplay is bad. Sorry, but it's bad. Since you aren't allowed to advance in the main storyline until after certain levels are achieved, you wind up so grossly overpowered that its easy to accidentally kill the ultimate boss-- kind of negating his EPIC INTRO. You are at more risk from auto-casting too many spells and auto-guzzling more potions than you meant to than you are from taking any damage from anything in the dungeons.
Either that or you are fighting a mega-monster only beatable by luck or a PvP jerk who can kill you in one hit.
Most of the enemies are repetitive. Different character designs but they die so fast it's hard to notice.
And frankly, at about level 30+ you abruptly run out of things to do. You need exp to advance and there is no place to get exp until you log in the next day. There are a lot of quests that you only get a few chances to enter per day, which limits progress.
The Super Annoying:
There are lots of alerts that don't go away unless you pay real money, monthly.
There is an (AWESOME!) 7 -day sale where fabulous prizes are marked down 80% off and are in-reach even for noobs. BUT the controls to scroll through said sale are located at the bottom in such a way that iphone will interpret the action as attempting to navigate away from the app. This causes the connection to cut out which... drops you back to the main lobby, meaning you have no navigate back to the sale-shop and VERY CAREFULLY scroll back to receive your prize/buy your coveted item. Ugh.
Also, every now and then there's a giveaway for an epic item. And every time ANY PLAYER gets an epic item the game sends out a center screen banner alerting the entire LoD world to the success. Which was basically logging in. This means that if you're boss battling on a day of an epic giveaway you can expect an alert constantly flashing across the center of the screen while every. single. active. user. gets their daily prize.
The Ugly:
This game is getting strong vibes of a game that the developers are putting in the dustbin.
A lot of the perks and stats that were unobtanium for me (a cheapskate player) when I first played years ago were accessible within three days of heavy play.
The lobbies are empty and the guilds, even high ranking ones, are dead. There are some "crossover events" with other games. Hint. Hint.
I fear for my beautiful character and her gorgeous world.
They've rolled out jarring and nonsensical sidequests like holiday themed pets or, worse, a trivia game in which you answer multiple choice questions like "Who ran in the 2016 presidential election?" which are so riddled with spelling and grammar errors as to be nearly unreadable. (For example, in the question I cited above, Hillary Clinton is listed as "Hilary.")
And remember what I said about the glorious heroic backstory for each item? Some stories include judges who turn their ashes into holy items to atone for an evil they committed, wingsets whose feathers are collected one annual pinion at a time from the wings of a winter god... All of these classic items are in perfect English. And then, well, there are two new(ish) ULTIMATE ITEMS which only the most ULTIMATE OF PLAYERS will access. There are two versions, a dark one and a holy one, and the (identical) backstories read as follows:
"Brodi used to be a teacher. He died after reading so much inconprehensible [sic] made-up text written by his pupils. Now he writes stories for Legacy of Discord because he hates this world."
I'm not even kidding. I couldn't make that up. I know it's a cry for help from an imprisoned game designer legcuffed to a cubicle wall. I'm just . . . not sure how to answer.