One: Give us fireball instead of just taunting us with references to the spell.
Honestly, I cannot express in clear concise language how disappointed I was when I realized that this new update didn't at least raise the level cap one level. It's my assumption that part of early access is to let players break some things so that they are made right for the full release. At some point we're going to need to see how third level (and beyond) spells break things. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see more classes are being integrated. Though I too was flummoxed that we got Barbarians but not half-orcs. Combat seems to be going much more quickly, and, for me anyway, the entire game has just run more smoothly. Thanks for that. Having said that, it's no wonder the ETA for the full release isn't until 2023. At the current update rate, if we're only ever getting one class or race at a time, accompanied by "little" fixes that improve the overall game performance, I wouldn't expect full release until Christmas 2023 at the earliest.
I'll echo MarcoNeves, this game has the potential to set the bar for CRPGs. That said, adding a throw mechanic and Barbarian class is just not enough to entice me to play, again, through everything I've already played through with a different class. I'd be interested to know how many other players out there feel the same way. What's the attrition rate after a new patch comes out? I created a Barbarian and played through a few different encounters, and now I'm already bored, because the story is the same, and I know there's nothing coming that I haven't already seen. If the purpose of EA is to allow the community to help you test the game, then making sure people want to continue to play the game has to be part of the business strategy, does it not? Moving forward, unless they increase the level cap, or there is a significant amount of new story added to the game, I won't be playing it. I'm sure there will be enough other people playing it that they'll get decent feedback, but I still can't help but think that these one-piece-at-a-time plus quality of life updates are alienating a fair number of the EA users. Maybe I'm wrong. It's happened before.
