As we’ve said before: We are constantly working on all aspects of the game and as fast as possible.
That includes bug fixing, stability and performance improvements as well as adding new mechanics and features.
We are adding new features because a big part of the player base is looking forward to new content and new armor and placeables. Those players are as much a part of the community as everyone else. As you know already, these DLCs do not take away from the workload of any of the other teams and are done by the art team (just to mention this again).
We are also aware that it’s really frustrating to wait for bug fixes and the team is working hard to hunt and eliminate bugs. In some cases (such as the thrall aggro issue), it’s really hard for the team to reproduce the issue internally.
In some cases we are not immediately able to reproduce the reported bugs internally, either due to hardware or software configuration differences, or missing/inaccurate steps for repro. This is where we really have to work together. Remember, we, the community team, are your voice back to the devs. The more info we have the better we can help them to fix bugs faster. The best thing you can do is if you are able to provide us with clear step-by-step instructions and close to 100% repro case.
We’re also really interested in keeping a good communication with the player base and are trying our best to improve on communication as much as we can with our small team 
That’s one of the reasons we started the stickies in the suggestion category as well as in the different platform sections with known issues and lists as well as the relatively new News and Announcement section.
Regarding the DLC armor issue: Please remember to check out the stickies. If we have to find every single post that asks about this we are bound to miss one or two and then the player in question feels ignored, which we by no means intend to do. That is another reason we are trying to work with more centralized info that can easily be linked and hopefully will lead to less information getting lost in translation. That said, it’s fixed internally and will go out with one of the next patches. (Check out the News/Announcement section for target schedules for patches, which we try to update if something changes in our timeline).
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