[Rendar]

Uh.

Chaos. I'm not sure if you've actually went grinding yet but a solo person against 2-3 enemies (see; JUST NORMAL THINGS) isn't going to actually live, or have much sustained fight power. Before a single person (see; not grind mage) could stand up against enemies. Now though? Now enemies are dishing out about 90-140 damage per hit and have about double if not triple their HP prior to the update. As a vampire verg/hexer, I was having trouble having sustained fight power against 3, and had to result to dragging out each fight to silvermist spam for HP/FP and then banquet spam the poor schmuck that was left behind.

We don't want a grind because we'd rather RP. Grinding is literally one of the worst parts about this game and is what keeps me away from making new characters. Sure, the grind isn't 'as' bad anymore because you no longer have to max out the LE book for a good character. However this doesn't alleviate the fact that you do get about.. what. 12 extra stat points should you actually do it. Some builds require more stats than others, which means that something like say... STR/WIL/SKI/DEF/RES/VIT are staples in their builds, and +3 traits means another +3 stats... but to get past that slog you also have to spend 1 legend ink upon Deja vu. So thats 10 right there, which isn't so bad, thanks to the 5 Legend Ink quests, however it's still a slog to get through 1 LE, let alone many more.

The lower end enemies hit for about as much as the higher end enemies, due to the way scaling works in this wonky ass world, and have less HP. Bosses and enemies alike deal (roughly) the same damage if they're doing basic attacks, but the bosses have roughly 4-5x the HP (and lord have mercy on your soul if they get near you at lower levels because you are D E A D). The game, in it's current state, requires someone to grind you through the lower levels becasue it's so imbalanced that you can't do it on your own. This is a poor design mechanic. Not to mention the high level enemies have such stupidly high stats that you're left wondering how they have 40-60 in numerous stats.