I got to finally try my buddy's Arken yesterday. The swag pack it comes with, flip caps, rings, throw lever etc all pretty good value for the money. If you want "best of the best", its not coming free with a $500 scope, but for plenty of people who cant outshoot their existing setup, it will be adequate gear.
glass quality, compared it to the athlon ares, on his Arken, we could see CA even at low magnification, however, outside of that, I thought it was decent scope for the money. Im no pro scope reviewer but I liked the turrets (big, textured, audible click - not the loudest), and the extra large font on them will likely please some as well. On lowest power, I did struggle a little to see the reticle as a little blurry and smallish but maybe thats something that was setup for my buddy's blind glasses wearing self once I got to fondling it.
If you didnt have a better scope to compare to, you wouldnt pick it up and think its junk by any means. This isnt a simmons.