The following may contain an opinion:

The good:

  • Treasure. I love treasure. I particularly love piles of coins. I love the different valuable items I can put on top of the piles of coins. Carrying the heroic treasures was strangely addicting.

  • Running: Thanks to the stamina regen, I can sprint much more than I did before since the time not spent running is shorter.

  • health and damage changes: I feel that pve got easier, and lets face it: Im lazy. I like these changes. On the other hand because of the increased damage I feel I have to be bit more cognizant of my positioning and the state of my thralls, This is also a good thing.

  • Twitch drops: who doesnt like free items?

The bad:

  • After I spent a day exploring and collecting different heroic treasures, next morning they had vanished. Some may have sunk into the foundations, some may have vanished entirely. This greatly affected my enthusiasm about the new update.
  • Light spell does not work
  • Corpse recall does not work. These spells were working before, now they dont. What gives?
  • Nemedian foundation instability issues. Thankfully I was unaffected, but the bug is so devastating to some people I feel I need to list it.
  • Thralls are not able to use the new awesome emotes? What gives? How can I NOT have the “you shall not pass” emote on a thrall guarding my sanctum?!

The meh:

  • Clan emblems. While the idea of clan emblems is good, only handful of starting emblems is kind of like having no emblem at all. Whats the point of a “unique” emblem if everyone has the same? I dont mind here being more emblems behind cash shop or battlepass but give us at least something to begin with! Especially considering the seemingly low quality of them.

  • The stamina changes. Have not affected my playstyle practically at all. Apart from being able to sprint more. Im happy my fully corrupted sorcerer is still able to swing a sword, but at the same time I feel there is barely a change.

  • The battle pass. Having bought and finished the previous battlepasses, I cant help but feel this one is a bit… lacking. Most of it is pretty “low effort” in my opinion, such as the emblems that look like a kid drew them with MS paint at school. Can you at least make the shields and flags have some weathering so it looks like a real shield and flag instead of 8 bit graphics? I cant believe it launched exactly the same as in beta. I thought Funcom was just withholding the lions share of the emblems.

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