The game right now have pretty worst gameplay after enter patch R8. I suggestion to re-balance about this soon as possible.
1st. monster stats grown rate too high. because of this some class & old class kinda useless especially summon/pet class. Maybe you wanna said it will be fine if use transcendent system but that’s also bad one.
2 transcendent system : number of this system is too high. and req too much time for invest. while you force ppl to use it to clear r8 content you need to make it more easy to got.
becuase mob stats too high ppl need to upgrade weapon/alt weapon/armor/accessory but just 1 equipment they need almost 1 month to make it usable. (except they have a lot of high lvl alt)
and because this system have number too high. it make power stats like str/int, one hit skill type(without any scaling), bonus of equipment, etc become useless and hard to balance later. I suggest you to lower power number of this system and make it more easy to got.
3 R8 skill : look like because of mob stats grown rate too high that why base skill number of rank 8 is high too. but this one will make skill of some class & lower rank kinda useless without transcendent system.
you need to re-balance 3 of this thing at same time. core of this problem’s mob’s stats anyway. if mob stats too high. you can’t lower transcendent & R8 skill. and I pretty sure if you not fix it. mob stats in r9 content will be something too crazy(even it’s too crazy right now lol).