I liked the patch and i can see how they are setting the foundations for whats to come. Like the MP usage increase for mages, imagine having the same MP usage as before 1.18 and then SE adds bards and other ways to regenerate MP, playing a mage would be too easy like that, so of course they had to do something about it and increase MP requirements for spells so people would get a head start on how to play their class right instead of just spaming aoe heals with infinite MP.