Total get what OP is saying and agree with most of it, but you're forgetting Larian's limitations. Larian is building this game on a modified engine of their previous engine.
For Larian's platform, some things are just not possible. A lot of things that are being requested in this thread and otherwise are, quite frankly, never going to happen with this release because of the constriction of the engine.
And I don't think Larian quite realized that either until they started making the game and trying to implement things. Patches are slower than advertised, full of bugs, and lots of modifications are taken on implementing things because they have to conform to their engine.
Reactions like Solasta isn't possible with Larian unless they re-designed an entire platform meant for DnD 5e and not their previous games, which would set development back years. They are going to move forward with what they have and make it work.
The masses will love it, the fanatics that are on the forum and/or Reddit will not. It's just time to face reality and stop wishing for things that aren't going to happen.
Pretty much. Hindsight is 2020.
I still choose to have some hope that Larian may surprise us, but after hearing about how DOS2 EA went, I’m not expecting it.
I think my litmus test that shows me what direction the game will ultimately take is seeing how Paladin is designed. People say Druid was complicated, but transformations are a great deal easier to handle and had prior precedence in DOS2 compared to stuff like reactions. The most complicated thing about Druid was probably their immediate story relevance.
It’s also for this reason that Paladin or Monk being released earlier or later would probably be a sign on how they’ll be implemented. The later they’re released, the more people are going to expect proper reactions. That said, I don’t think they’ll release a patch without another accompanying class to go along with it again, so we’ll probably see an easier to design class next. My bet is on Bard, because Bardic Inspiration is the only complicated thing about it, and we need a second CHA focused class.
