[Complete] Scheduled Server Maintenance - January 8, 2014

Apparently not. Aside from cubing and scrolling becoming more expensive and a pain in general, most those are completely untradeable, so players get no resale value. I did my fair share of cubing and scrolling reverse weapons and armors when they first came out, and out comes power creep with new better stuff. I recently upgraded to a sweetwater weapon (didn't spend much on it anyway), but it feels like a waste to just throw out my old reverse weapon considering how much I spent on it. Oh well, it'll be staying in my inventory for an eternity. With that, I doubt much of anyone is willing to spend money and effort into something that isn't end game and just to toss it out later due to being untradeable, or is expecting the next power creep content.

Anyway, they did make it a little easier to level (Red leaf high and evo world is good training, along with 2x daily + events sprinkled in every now and then) and there's nothing else barring the player from equipping them besides a level requirement. They removed stat requirements off equipment a long time ago (not like it matters much now with all the abundance of passives and equips that gives a lot of all stats) as well put out bypass keys every now and then, so mentioning 'progression and skipping' sounds a bit awkward.