Would you survive without NX?

I probably could. "Probably" because I am not able to merch by spamming FM entrance, so without a shop I am limited to what meso I loot or can get by npc'ing dropped items. Not sure whether post-BB drop rates vs. potion consumption rates would let me do this, but I assume it's possible, especially since 120 takes so little time now and doesn't really require anything special by way of gear. (And by special I don't mean just the high end, I mean anything that costs millions of meso).

However, that is not the question, at least not for me. The question is "would you enjoy it?"
This is a game. If it's not fun, I don't want to play.
I have very bad loot and pot lag, possibly due to living halfway around the world from Nexon.
Not having a pet to loot for me is physically painful, as well as considerably slower training.
Depending on class, not having a pet to pot for me means a lot more deaths = much slower training.
Call me spoiled, but I don't enjoy that.

Now, if I had to raise a secondary char to 120, like say a Cygnus for UA, or an SE mule, and it had funding from my main, I just wouldn't bother looting. I would not get it a pet. Mules aren't worth it. I've done this before, not to 120 but I've raised numerous mules to 50 and a few beyond that (highest is 95) without a pet or anything else NX.
However, for my main, far beyond 120, if you told me I could never use NX again, I'd just quit the game. I hate having to manually loot. I can't make the kind of meso I need, without a shop. I can train or boss without auto-hp, but it's stressful; all the more so for having no charms or wheels. And being unable to cube means being very, very weak, especially if I also don't have a shop to earn enough meso to be able to afford pre-cubed gear. Or even scrolled gear, for that matter.
I would not enjoy the game under those conditions.

Done it before, and doing it now. The answer is Yes, I can live without it.

Could I? yes, would I? F'uck no.

Before I wouldn't spend any nx besides 2x cards on a char until it was 120 because that's when I felt I was more dedicated to it. With no more 2x cards I'd be fine doing it w/o nx.

Never spent a single cent on this game. Happy like the most.

Before I wouldn't spend any nx besides 2x cards on a char until it was 120 because that's when I felt I was more dedicated to it. With no more 2x cards I'd be fine doing it w/o nx.

this.

i COULD get to 120 (and then some, i'm sure) without NX, but it's more fun with NX.

i don't play any chars that are ugly. all my chars, including mules, have exp hair.

Depending on what I do, I could not survive without Nx.

I use a pet and auto HP pouch for the majority of what I do which is bossing and training. Plus I always try to keep a 90-day Shop Permit to sell excess goods and occasionally Scissors of Karma to offload nice STR and DEX Scarlion helmets.

I don't spend much mind you, but these keep me alive, and even funded.

I only get NX for the thrill of gacha. It's like gambling to me. >.>

Got my Cygnus to 120 without using any NX whatsoever. On my way to getting Medillion there too.

Before I wouldn't spend any nx besides 2x cards on a char until it was 120 because that's when I felt I was more dedicated to it. With no more 2x cards I'd be fine doing it w/o nx.

Heh, way back in the day I had a similar rule for level 30. Now it's more like ~100-120.

With 2x cards taken out and new characters being able to get decent hair/eye/outfit I have no need for NX on new characters anymore.

I don't like how you use the word "survive". For example, that may imply you're not having fun (more specifically others).

For sure yes, I remember when NX did not even exist, still trained up to around 6x or so with about 5%/hour at Dangerous Valley II, Red Drakes. Definitely could do without, though I will admit pre-BB sometimes it was annoying in some situations (Not being able to find a map that is good to train), so I would get NX and just 2x card through the night to get out of certain training spots. Now it is different though, since BB has changed much things around, 0 - 120 without any NX is fine.

121 - 200 is a bit of a different story though, but we will leave that for another topic.

Without nx, yes. Getting to 120, no. I have the patiene of an impatient person, the highest character I've ever gotten was a 106 blaze wizard.

No, because i would not look smexy and would eventually delete my ugly character probably at like 119 or something because i just cant stand to look at it anymore.

For the most part, yes.

The only things I really care about from the cash shop at the moment are cubes (in which I haven't cubed anything yet, and probably won't for a really long time), hair coupons + perma hats (if I end up coming in possession of something fugly like my Ravana Helmet), and stores (which I can live without).

Gachapon tickets could be a contender if Nexon wasn't freaking making a significant portion of the valuable things in there untradable, particularly those boosters and shoulderpads (which forces me to think about which character I should be gaching on - I probably won't gach until the Archer Legend is released at this rate).

Hmm, I'd most likely survive. Probably wont be as motivated to train without 2x since I'm used to it, so it would take a little longer. Nexon also has horrible event times for me. With the new range of hair/face when creating a character, I could possibly survive without nx clothes but I'd rather not. Something I'd definitely need is a store permit though.

Way back in the day, I got to 18x without 2x cards on my bishop, this includes grinding to 16x as a priest. I finally bought 2x once the 4 hour cards were released - I had no time for the 10/30 day cards so that's why I did not purchased them. I had a pet which was given to me by a guildie (no pouch, magnet) when I was a noob & revived it during the release of 4th job when I was 16x. But I started to buy cosmetics & clothes at 10x/11x because my RL friend bought some NX & offered to buy for me too

Hmm, I'd most likely survive. Probably wont be as motivated to train without 2x since I'm used to it, so it would take a little longer. Nexon also has horrible event times for me. With the new range of hair/face when creating a character, I could possibly survive without nx clothes but I'd rather not. Something I'd definitely need is a store permit though.

Way back in the day, I got to 18x without 2x cards on my bishop, this includes grinding to 16x as a priest. I finally bought 2x once the 4 hour cards were released - I had no time for the 10/30 day cards so that's why I did not purchased them. I had a pet which was given to me by a guildie (no pouch, magnet) when I was a noob & revived it during the release of 4th job when I was 16x. But I started to buy cosmetics & clothes at 10x/11x because my RL friend bought some NX & offered to buy for me too

sorry to tell you this but they removed those cards, so your dreams of leveling and becoming "pro" have been crushed.

sorry to tell you this but they removed those cards, so your dreams of leveling and becoming "pro" have been crushed.

Haha, I know they've removed the cards

I'm done with leveling anyways. I've already reached 200 on the characters I wanted to 'finish'.