Vindictus

I got a tarok to level 42. I believe they nerfed a few of the encounters (trampled plains comes to mind especially). The only fight that I've seen that was OMGWTF is the transformation quest fight. At level 41 I essentially got one hit killed, as did others. I went Dark Knight over Paladin.

There seem to be more quests, and they have exp boosts of varying degrees until you hit level 38. I found myself not having to do repeated instances just to level, there were almost always quests to raise my levels (and I bought/mailed myself thru several quests rather than farm an item that wouldn't drop).

One problem is that there are alot more items now and you don't get any more bag space, unless you pay cash for it.

In game gold is easy to come by from quest rewards and selling drops (to NPC or market).

I've used 3 armor sets premium rookie (free), savage leather (created), blood prince (bought/created). Honestly I think I could run most of them naked. No need to constantly upgrade. Pillars are cheap on the market, most under level 50 go for less than 40,000 and can be resold when you are done.