Majorly Pay to win, a lot of custom items required for PVP, WOE and most of them can only be bought by donating. Few of these can be farmed but that is requires insane amount of time and resource investment. Other than that there are a lot of quests and events, plenty of things u can farm. The server is newbie friendly and fun, as long as you are not competitive. If u want to go competitive u need to pay money boss...