As a new person just getting into feast, I'm half and half over the decision to not have chat. While I am trying my best to read up and know what I am supposed to contribute, it would be nice to be told if I am genuinely doing something wrong (which as a Paladin in feast, I've now learnt I shouldn't be trying to go too crazy grabbing the medals, heh). But at the same time I feel that less time griping, more time fighting is better and it devolving into a crap flinging match brings me down and I ain't learning anything from that.

I get that from my level of play it's completely different to rated play, so strategy is far more important at the upper levels and for this reason I do wish they would allow you to communicate more. A toxicity mute system would be way better than just disallowing talking all together.

They've clearly done it so it's a lot more accessible for the casual or newcomers to pvp like myself, but it might be a bit too extreme in my point of view. So it's better in the sense that I don't have to worry about being flamed into oblivion for being new and inexperienced, but worse because it would be nice to get some pointers as well as some strategy that can win us the match.