Recent reviews by thrump

Pvp is pretty unbalanced and uncompetitive. I don't think a majority of the playerbase even engages in pvp content. No fall off damage on dex rats who hit for half of your hp with 1 shot across the map. The game is pretty skill based but the skill is in only iframing other players abilities and aim if you are playing a bow, firestaff, or musket. Otherwise you have pretty insane aimbot on melee abilities that make it feel like the game is playing for you. Not to mention there's a literal aimbot in the settings anyone can enable because this game is appealing to the least common denominator. Additionally the performance issues make pvp pretty miserable. Also a lot of people think that there's forced mouse smoothing with the console import, which is just... Awesome.

The loot is a mess. Easily one of the worst systems in the industry. Back at launch orange loot used to be so rare that bis wasn't attainable for anyone. In that system atleast you didn't have to grind to get decent enough gear to just pvp. You could just slap on purple pieces with two perks and pvp players could just pvp. The current system is a complete lottery system where you either kill mobs, complete activities, or plug in materials to a workbench and hope a complete bis piece drops natty. There's no poe style crafting steps that make crafting more deterministic. The perks on gear are simultaneously boring, too niche, and lack power. Wow, 1.5% base damage is the best in slot perk for every damage dealing character? 1.5%? Really?

If you are looking for pve game, I think that every other game has better encounters and gearing systems that are actually fun to engage with. This game does not even come close to the likes of WoW or PoE with it's current pve content. Maybe if you actually died when you failed instead of just getting resurrected by teammates you could consider content difficult. Maybe if the devs had played other games they'd have some ideas on how to make gearing more interesting. The fact that their grand solution for people complaining about how hard it was to get bis gear was to literally 50x the amount of legendary drops is pretty out of touch.

If you are looking for pvp go play an actual pvp game like league, dota, deadlock, smite, valorant, cs, ect. Way more competitive and skill-based and those games actually run well.

Imo the player-base of this game hasn't played many other games and lacks the experience to know their game is just lacking compared to other games on the market. They chant that their game is actually amazing but they haven't stepped out from under it's shadow and into the sunlight.

gameplay average or below average, story is enjoyable. it's basically a long movie