This might be polemic

I think that the game is in a very good state as it is right now. For sure, getting oneshot 0.2 seconds after clicking 3 times an essence monster in the highest tier map I can comfortably play in doesn't feel particularly fair, but that's what I get for being curious instead of cautious.

I honestly can't say I've had an issue with drops and crafting, and in fact I'm consistently gaining exalts from trades simply for doing some basic crafting. The unique droperate isn't bad either. For sure, the Crafting Bench would be HUGE, but for now, that's what we get. Really hoping to see it again in the near future.

For sure, the dashing and blinking and teleporting skills have been sorely missed at first (especially during the HUGE maps from the campaign, without movement speed mods from boots), but now I almost feel like the maps I'm grinding through should be a bit bigger and have more mobs, especially when they're more open. When the map is a bunch of narrow corridors tho, I couldn't wish it'd end sooner. When I see in the Atlas that the map I'm about to prog is Mire, for example, I always use a lower tiered map so I can be done with it ASAP.

Anyway, thanks GGG, keep up the great work.