Its still a numbers game where its super important to pick the ideal passives, grind your gear to max and see those damage amounts go up. The english patch has PSO2 MesetaPSO2 Meseta improved tremendously since I played and the only non-english parts you'll probably encounter will be with newer narrative content. They do patch occasion translations pretty quickly, however. I would recommend it if you had friends to play with. So you won't ever get lost with it the story isn't very complicated...