Grinding HM skills take years, only would play if you enjoy casual PvE-ing... the pvp is pretty HM skill dependent after a while (especially for locks/bm's) and on top of that you'll need tons of gold for upgrading skills... Seemed too pay to play to me, but if you do enjoy it (pve/leveling) and have money definitely get the VIP as it helps substantially over long term. Other downsides are the pvp community is pretty toxic, and the amount of bots spamming.