Hi,

I've been playing for a while now and I am not able to like this game. The best thing about this game is other players but other than that it's a sluggish boring struggle.

None of the classes are unique or has any individual impact in any meaningful way. The MSQ is uninteresting and after the first 20 hours I'm just trying to get it done as fast as possible skipping as much cut-scenes and text as possible hoping and waiting for something interesting to happen -- a new dungeon unlock is always fun for a few hours.

The gameplay/combat is an awkward rubber-band slugfest. Every mob out in the wild is meaningless fodder. There's no strategy or finesse to core combat whatsoever. Other than move out of the way from red area which for most mobs is a waste of time and it's faster to just tank the hit.

Every skill/spell and mob is way too visually intricate, big and flashy. Nothing is distinguishable in fights. Everything is just a big messy splash of meaningless colors. Including all the player characters skills spells and animations. Everyone is just flipping about dancing around taking up visual real-estate and pixels for no meaningful purpose. It's way, way, WAY too visual and detailed. Fine do a flip when you use a long cooldown that has a big impact but jesus when every single little thing you do and spam is like the second coming of christ you start losing your religion real quick.

There's no kiting in this game. If you kite a mob 10 yards out of it's "in range for spell" zone it just turns back and gets to full hp. There's no meaningful CC or strategy to deal with mobs at all. Like interrupting a heal, delaying patrols, CC'ing adds etc. The healers root/bind spell -- what should be a powerful spell is utterly laughable and meaningless.

Nothing in the combat system calls out for clutch plays or reactions or decisions. It's just a numbers game. By the way is every single mob melee? No ranged mobs whatsoever?

None of your own spells feel meaningful or impactful like the healers sleep spell -- again what an incredibly useless spell when it shouldn't be.

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