The game really seems to have opened up with the removal of Veteran Ranks. I'm sure there were tons of players who had fully-leveled alts before, but there was also a large portion of the player base who didn't want to commit that time to level through VR1-16 again. Now getting to max level feels just about right.. can be done fairly quickly but still feels like you need to put in a good amount of effort and time. It's so refreshing to be able to try other (or all) classes.

One thing that feels a bit weird though, is how CP is used to display your overall character "level". If I have any CPs, all of my characters have access to that. Other players are aware of that as long as I'm playing a character who is level 50. If I'm playing a character lower than level 50, then only my actual level is displayed, even though I do still have access to all those CPs. And then there's the way that mob/gear go up to and stop at CP160.

These things don't really impact how the game plays, and I understand why it was done this way with the conversion from VRs. But it does feel patched together, and possibly confusing to a new player. I wonder if this is the final phase of changes to how the progression system is presented, or if there will be further tweaks down the road.