Interesting concepts, but for the most part ~ poorly executed, along with hacker and lag problems.
The gameplay itself is interesting, combining some elements from games such as Harvest Moon, you can have a part time job and earn money by doing choirs such as Harvesting or sheep shearing etc, these are one of the few ways to make money without resorting to buying gold from the farmers, YES, I said buying gold ~ the reasoning behind this is the sheer expensive NPC vendor items, for instance a crappy shield costs around 11k gold, and some armors as much as 100k+, the reason behind this is that there really isn't much itemization, the best gear comes from enchanting, which of course comes with significant risks.
Combat, on 'paper' sounds great however, i've personally found it to be a major downfall of MaB, the formula is simple enough, using rock/paper/scissors method, unfortuntely lag is the major killing blow for this system, and yes like most F2P MMos, theres a serious amount of it, resulting in alot of frustrating deaths, especially for new players. Also, worth noting that whilst there is 'soloing' quests available, for the most part this is a forced grouping style of game, many dungeon quests require a full group unless you exceptionally powerful or hack, even some of the so called 'beginner' dungeons are very difficult for new players such as the small golem in Ciar Dungeon, which is supposed to be a solo boss however, it usually takes at least 2-3 deaths before you take it down, which results in item damage and even item loss sometimes :facepalm:
Another issue is the insane grind in MaB, most Asian MMos are either known for PK or crazy grinding, MaB falls into the latter as some skills just take forever to level to a point they become useful, and thats assuming you don't fall into the many pitfalls of skill development, many skills are complete waste of AP and alot of players still spend valuable points on them, this is where 'rebirthing' comes into play though, essentially what that does is take your character all the way back to Level 1, but you keep all your current skills and items, this allows you to gain another fresh set of AP. Some elements though are really good such as the ability to import your own music and play in-game, theres little benefit to this except for showing off basically.
As for the rest, could go on for hours here but in a nutshell, this isn't a bad game, but its not a great game either, this could have been a totally awesome game if it wasn't for some of its major issues and hacker problems, at least this is a taste of what RO2 might be when its finally out. This would be a better game if it wasn't for the thousands of botters running around :sigh: