My 2 cents

Now that I have logged more hours in this game then any of my other steam games in a very short period of time I feel its time for 2 things. The first is a thank you. This game is a lot of fun and well designed. The replay value on this game is absolutely incredible. The 2nd thing is a critique.


Core game:

Pro's
Insane replay value
True Free to play vs Pay to win
Insane Depth to the Skill Tree
Lots of Unique, Rare and craftable Items
Map designs attention to detail

Con's
Some of the Gems, skill nodes, gear or jewels have descriptions that don't read clearly causing a lot of reworking of characters when ideas don't work.
The enemies should scale to be a little harder in difficulty as you progress because many times a build seems great all the way to Lunaris Temple and that is kind of far to go with a build thinking it can handle it to find out its squishy.
A shop integration would prevent users from having to go to a 3rd party to list items.
The gold spammer (every mmo has it and I was debating on even putting it but yes its a con cause he is a lame no woman having nerd that needs to leave his moms basement and find a girlfriend)

Ascension:

I like some of the concepts and the ability for growth but I feel the running around for the prelab trials is nearly pointless.

The lab itself is a challenge but not a fun one. Server instability, lag deaths and glitches preventing travel to the next area suck any fun right out of this new addition. (though it does seem to be getting better).

Also while some aspects of some of the classes are cool when I finally beat the labyrinth I was not jumping for any of the classes as none of them really stood out and made me happy to pick. It seems like the choices for skills were just random nodes on the skill tree (with a few notable exceptions for a few of the skills on certain classes). The scion being my main source of disappointment because it really felt like a half measure of an ascension tree with no real perks over just going with the classes she borrows from. Yes I get that she can get "the best of 2 worlds" but that actually isn't true because she is getting half of the best from 2 worlds. WOW this is worded poorly sorry lol. I think instead having an additional perk to those skills would be cool. More of a variation so if you gave her for instance an additional totem it could also cast a heal aura or something. I am not saying that exact idea but something similar and not just halfing a skill.

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Thank you once again, you guys are awesome.

Great to read your feedback - I agree the game is awesome for replayability!

I disagree with you about the ascension nodes. If you come at them from the point of view of "which nodes should I pick to make my build better", then yes I agree they aren't that great. My LA ranger got some extra dps (crit chance, pierce chance, accuracy, attack speed etc...), and fires 6 arrows instead of 5. Wow, not very inspiring.

But if you are thinking more like "how can I build a new character with these nodes", then they are amazing.

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Bu3d wrote:

WOW this is worded poorly sorry lol.

Now you know how GGG feel. They have to word the gems in a way that is clear and easy to read, but also really detailed with all the info you might need.