The merges did not balance anything and as of now ruined the currently semi-balanced servers. The broker prices are still the same old prices and the servers are hihly over-crowded leading to server sided delays not to mention the UTTER lack of balance between the races since asmodian charecters which have NOT been logged for 5 months were counted as players or elyos level(Aion Powerleveling) 10 werehouse mules were counted as active players currently the servers are uber unbalanced and broken. There are no “balance tweaks” because this is a franchise. NC Soft West are selling a ready made product and putting near-nothing into it. ATM Aion is doomed with or without 2.0.
Sure it is expected of 2.0 to fix SOME of the main issues (tho not most like the fact that you need to grind PvE instances to get PvP gear something seen in no other western game honestly…even 2d mmos do not have this) but the broken support and utter lack of it for the EU servers if i have to be honest and the lack of any balance are killing the game. Also there are major hack and 3rd party program abusers that go unpunished the GMs do not care at ALL and the game will die in the next 3-4 months top in game( aion online gold).