I agree with almost everything you said Haven. Obviously the food thing and the Enkindle issue I had mentioned earlier but also the balancing to an extent. Of course there would need to be balancing to have the new pets put in but I think for a lot of us we thought this would be the time. I for one certainly didn't think we would get new pets and they would be able to put them in and not have to make adjustments. Early on in thread we discussed that the Elemental Wheel issue as the biggest roadblock here. But again, roadblock or none we thought the expansion would address this in addition to giving us new pets with new abilities. The disappointment happens when promised one thing and not really directly addressing it. I'm not saying they're not fixing it at all just that on Thurs we really needed to hear something constructive about some improvements that were coming and instead we were given a short clip of pretty lights and over-hyped ability names. It felt like the equivalent of a 5 yr old waiting for Xmas to come then when it does he gets a lump of coal, named "chocolate" and is supposed to be happy about said coal because it has a name that sounds like it would be good. There was nothing constructive offered and no acknowledgement of the SMN situation beyond "yea Tri-Disaster sucks we'll rename it and you give you a real one".

I swear if you had asked me a week ago what my biggest concerns were as a SMN Tri-Disaster was the last thing on my list. Although that could be because I haven't used in forever.