I'm a huge masochist so I'm actually enjoying the rigidity somewhat. Very pleased with the re-addition of ice para and the changes to umbral soul. I still hate the changes to thunder! I personally really enjoyed sharpcast/thunder management. I also like that flare star is a cast and I don't want it to be made insta cast - but it is a tad underwhelming! I'm quite partial to the idea of us being able to execute a flare star with less hearts with the caveat that it's weaker than a full 6 - maybe when you use it at full charges it applies a dot, or negates the ice/fire damage reduction, or enhances your ice magic, or hell, even gives you a blizzard 3 proc so you can insta the flare-star, get a proc, transpose AF3 -UI1 and use the blizz proc to get a tiny dps gain.