Crafting:

I am an avid crafter, in whatever rpg I play. The choice to allow unmodified green crafts to be produced instantly was great. It greatly enhanced crafting's usefulness, especially in getting the power rating required to progress. I have however found that at the moment at least, adding special materials for the “optimised” crafting either does absolutely nothing, or again is too esoteric to be understood by someone that isn't interested in doing 1000+ crafts to try and figure it out. I have often had greens produced instantly come out better than greens (and purples) of the same item I put lots of the special mats into, even including the purple mats that take purple mats to make. 

At this point the“optimizes by x% such and such” seems to do nothing. I know that most, need to be placed next to enchants. None of them seem to do squat though. Maybe optimizes just means better chance to roll higher, and I have just continually been unlucky on ones that get enchants I want, but it really seems you are better off just putting in basic mats and letting it go. Some far better tutorial windows that fully explain all the terms and rules and effects and how to use them are needed. Also they need to have a more noticeable effect on the end product. ATM anything other than insta produced greens seems pointless.

Lastly, the time it will take to produce, when adding, special mats or crafting purples, never matches what I was told it will take. I can't tell you the number of times I have hit craft on an item and it says it will take 45 mins, only to hit craft, look at the timer and see 1.5 hours of time left till completion. Seems like it should be fairly east to fix.

I like the ideas behind the crafting, I like the upgrading of certain aspects through the tech tree. I like so much about the system overall, but it needs work or better explanation. I would also like to see a system where I can exclude certain enchants or types of enchants when crafting an item. I mean If I am going to have someone make something for me, they should be able to make something suitable. If I go to a blacksmith and tell him I favour speed over force, stab over slash, he isn't going to make me a heavy broadsword is he?

Cabals:

Overall good system. I like it. A few, small problems though. Every member of a cabal in a party that does a cabal mission should count towards the total, so 4 together run 1 mission, it counts as 4 missions completed. At the moment to get “cabal assassination missions” (just an example) complete, you are best off getting everyone to run them individually. The idea should be to encourage group play within the cabal not prevent it.

The other major gripe I have, with the cabal system is that advancement is completely at the mercy of rnjesus. Some of the missions you can get are really easy, like donate crafting mats or collect items from mobs that spawn in most missions in great numbers. Others are almost impossible. Gob forbid your lvl 1 cabal (with only your few mates as members) gets as it's first mission the “collect books from word bearers sorcs”. No way will you get that done in a week. Even if you have full members it's a challenge because word bearer sorcs are rare AF, even if you focus exclusively on word bearer missions. So if things don't go your way, your cabal's advancement is locked down until the weekly reset through no fault of your own, and the option to re-roll quests isn't available until cabal lvl 4 (?) if you focus that path.

Something needs to be done. Maybe letting the cabal master, or lords (through vote if master is off line) to select from 3 choices would help to at least alleviate if not eliminate the problem. Making it so the harder to complete missions aren't in the possible mission pool until the cabal gets a few ranks and more members would be better. 

Making it so that cabal missions spawn in all sectors, rather than just chernobog would also be a help. I mean when you hit high lvl and are working on influence in a certain sector then realise you now have to go back to the very first system and run missions there for a few days to finish a cabal objective just makes it a little too disruptive to normal play IMHO. 

So next, the skilltrees:

Overall I really likethe skill point system. I like the path of exile “lots of smallboni that add up” type system, and find that it being divided intodefined areas rather than a massive sprawling path you can spendhours planning and still make wrong turns is great. 

A minor issue however,is that some trees have specific build or weapon type abilities onthe main path, with great general stuff and/or the “main” talent,behind them. The best example I remember, is in the critical hitstree. The path that starts upper right and descends towards themiddle has “+2% crit chance to melee skills”. Branching off thatspecific skill and not on the path is “+5% to crit chance ifsuppression status is green”. 

Surely anyone could seethat it's a bad idea to lock something so valuable to anyone that isgoing for a crit build behind a play style specific talent? I play asa ranged sniper. I seriously want that talent, but to get it I needto pick a talent that is useless to me, since I never go melee. Thusunless the intention is to make people waste skill points (which isis a very bad intention if it is thus) it just seems like poor designto place the melee crit talent in front of that talent. Not tomention that by the same token even if I am just after the middle“super skill” from the tree, many are on the main path to it.

There are many otherexamples that I cant remember right now but srsly please have somepeople look at the skill trees and ensure that build/weapon typespecific talents are not on the main path towards the “super”talent of a skill tree's path, nor in front of great general talents.Preventing skill wastage should be a priority. I have seen somepeople complaining that many points already feel like a waste to getto the good ones so maybe some of them could do with a small bumpupwards, but I personally feel it currently works fine other thanwhat I have said.

Priority Assignments: 

So currently I amlimited in how many I can do, and so far as I can tell, the resultsare completely random. However many missions it involves in the endit seems about 50/50 if you will gain 5 glory for the whole thing, orlose 5 glory. The chance of success and collateral damage bars areeither completely random or affected by things too esoteric to befigured out by normal people just interested in playing the game.Often you get no choices that will increase your chances of success,just question marks. Sometimes you get one that does, but has aquestion mark on collateral dmg and the ratio the assignment startswith is what you end up with in the end. Rare indeed were the times Imanaged to get the success higher than the dmg if the success startedlower (in fact I don't think it ever happened). 

First, if anything I dowill affect the success or dmg bar, I need to be told. Mostly though,I would much prefer an actual roleplay situation where for example Iroam around a hab centre myself and encounter difsituations/conversations where my choices actually affect things(though again I should always be informed or have the option beinginformed what choices will affect what). The dmg vs success shouldalso be more of a personal reputation thing than affect my rewardsthing. I mean, we are talking about an order that would ratherexterminatus an entire planet than let heresy and corruption takeroot there. I don't think they would really be too concerned withcasualties and such if the job gets done.

Lack of open worldfeel:

Sure theoreticallythere is a whole sector here to explore. However in practice atm itis basically a map with a series of instances. There is really noopen world about it at all. While what it is is fun, I personallywould like to see hub area's for every planet or at least the mainpopulation centre planet of every system, with conversations androleplay opportunities for each one. Areas to explore and findmissions through investigation rather than just the star map “quickmissions”. I am not saying the star map quick missions should beremoved by any means, they are great and allow one to pretty muchjump straight in and do 1 or a few missions in little time which isawesome. I am just saying that non combat orientated explorationshould be available for each world, where our choices inconversations and how we handle missions gained there might affectour reputation and such would be nice. Put more rp into this rpg.This is one of the main points I feel will suffer with the seemingspeed of the release schedule. This is another of the major drawbacks I find in this game, and now there's no time to add it.  

Loot: 

This is one of the fewthings I feel suffered greatly in the feb 16 patch. I didn't reallyneed to worry about loot before. I just checked out what I got afterthe mission, so the action didn't slow down. I have seen the peoplecomplaining that they don't get the “oh shiny!” moments but Ifelt those came between missions when you checked out all the loot.The only problem being that not all the loot is shown if too much iscollected. You have to open your inv after and see what you actuallygot. IMHO unless we are able to change equipment during a missionthen showing me what it does/is achieves little. 

While I personallywould like it if we could, I also understand the philosophy behindthe current system, which makes each mission more tactical. “Thisis my build and load out for this mission, can I get it done?” Yourcommander can't change equip mid fight in table top 40k, you need topick it before hand (never played the inquisitor rpg). Making me haveto run over it though distracts from the fun IMHO and I would like anOPTION to have loot done the old way if I prefer it.

I feel that if therewards screen showed everything I collected during the missionincluding that relic I didn't notice that dropped, then the shinymoments would be there.

I felt that the feb 16patch that reduced damage of specials but increased their hp was astep in the right direction. It made debuff and buff with certaineffects builds more viable compared to pure big hits since the bossesmight live long enough for them to actually matter (previously dotbuilds for example had little use, nothing had the hp for it matterover just hitting/critting really hard). I never encountered thesuper regen I saw others complaining about so not sure if it wasfixed or if my tendency to not do missions 50+ above my rating justkept it manageable for me. I still feel more hp, less regen as asurvival method for bosses and specials would be a better thing thanmore regen. We want them to take awhile to kill and bechallenging, we don't want their hp to never move and feeluseless.

Well that's about it.Hope some people read and discuss. Sorry it's an essay but, true feedback needs to be.