My deepest appologies if I sounded too negative with my postings yesterday, but now I'll try to explain why this update doesn't make me thrilling or happy at all. My reasons are biased to warlocks class since I play (majority of time) on it.
1. No class damage/armor rebalance done at all. We all know it's needed. Mages in general are too squishy, even with all best armors, WM armors, enhancements and all the bells and whistles. Barbs with insane damage, archers with insane damage for their range. Example: unnamed archer from unnamed realm hitting me the other day 1970 with lethal strike, from the other side of the map.
2. No spell rebalance done at all. There are tons of useless spells which had some purpose before lvl 60 cap. This means practically every warlock have similar setup.
3. No mages damage scaling with class attributes. Ok, staff damage scales, but who needs it? With insane legendary armors, damage done to knights is really funny.
4. Doubtful useness of class attributes. Intelligence? Spell focus? Concentration? No one ever officially explained this attributes and how it affects to the mage performance, there are only guessing and speculations.
5. Resist rates. If resist rates lowers with above attributes, why me, with 118 int, 80+ concentration and spell focus rings get resisted few times in a row from low players (like very easy)? Randomness? This needs to be removed!
6. Hundreds of reported and documented bugs in forum, none fixed. Two nasty bugs especially affects warlocks: inability to cast (
reported here), and loss of mana after unsuccessful casting.
7. Absence of useful boss jewlery for mages in Alsius. Nothing much to explain here.
8. Absence of good mage gear. The other day I went to Amun and bought like 30 platinum boxes to check what's in there for warlocks, especially staves. Out of 30 boxes, I got like 2-3 legendary items, one more crappier than other. I don't what I expected, but tons of crap certanly not. Now, am I encouraged to buy premium boxes? Of course not.
9. Absence of useful items in WM shop. I have 300k+ warmaster coins and I don't know how to spend it. Buy WM horse? No, it's just fancy mount with no additional benefits. Buy WM staff? Good joke, one of must unusable items in the game, not even possible to fuse it with any other "normal" staff, just for appearance!
10. Warlock magnanite staff? Another good joke. Same as WM staff, absolutely unusable.
11. Doubtful warlock useness in new dragon instances.
And I can go on and on...
tl;dr... Nothing exciting in new update. No bugs fixed. No classes rebalanced. No new warlock items. This is very disappointning, and I guess most of warlocks would agree with me on all points above.
Best regards.