I find it a little bit funny that all those ppls that r complaining about cs and how hard is it to get it don't refer to gearing up in the same fashion. 99% of the time its go hand in hand - i don't see ppls with high gs and 4 lvl runes...and I don't even mean enchanted ff, everyone can complete s10/s11 and get geared even without cs. but its not happening (in generally) since getting cs and gearing goes hand in hand. gearing up is a long and somewhat expensive (gold wise) process and if you are not dedicated for it all the cs in the world wont help you. cs items r worthless without the high gears. so whoever is dedicated enough to get the top gear will get the cs items too, with gold grinding or real $.
yeah, that's why the gear system is allods n1 issue imo. Gear isn't worth farming (and is much more difficult) if you don't have a good base of cs item already. That's why i try to open the eyes of the the new players that cross my way, 99% of them think that gearing up is THE thing they must do at max lvl and they're losing their time and effort into this gear process without never be efficient enought (no cs = no good guild that carry you etc.) and never reach the top gear. And i tell them that cause i think that spending my firsts years in allods trying to gear up was the worst idea i've ever had in this game, if i'd have farm cs item since the beginning i could have been much more op now
Most of the time players only complain about cs item but for me they're the good ones in the story, as they increase your strengh forever and consequently are worth farming for; whereas gears can completly be compared to non permanent cs item, and for me, in an mmo, non prmanent = not the priority...