I've been busy all day, but finally got the chance to read through this thread...

Overall, I can say I'm very excited about the upcoming features! And David, thanks for so many explanations in replies to so many questions :)

But I'm really not liking the character balance...

I'd like to build the character I want, with the skills I want. I'd like to be able to have the same skills as other classes, but as a wizard. While I completely understand your desire to have differences between the classes, I feel that every balance change has swung heavily in one class' favour. - None of the balances appear to represent the natural ability rangers have of being able to benefit from AD and/or AP on items, all gem types and university+skilltower double points from AP+AD.

I'd like to see all classes being able to choose between using AD or AP, and to use any class skill. Someone has previously suggested replacing the skill book with a skill-tree... that would work well with an option to specialise your character in AP or AD.

Perhaps if each class could choose a 'speciality' at the start of the skill tree... e.g. battle mage, ninja, sharpshooter etc... that wouldn't reset with a normal 'skills reset', but required shardium and/or a large number of university points to re-pick... maybe a stupidly high cost of 2500 shardium to re-pick without university points, but a normal cost of 100 shardium + 100k university points?

But, the bottom line... The intended effect of the players being less bored because of character differences, is having the opposite effect... we get frustrated that we lack skills of the other classes when they are overpowered. - My proposed solution would eliminate that, and give players a lot more they can do with their character.

I really like Andaho's suggestion about the skill tree. I've always leaned towards being a battle mage, with diverse skills, and the present configuration makes me a very weak partner in collaboration with warriors and rangers.

I also agree with Sparky13's comment about the scarcity of INT gems. While I realize that the drops are skewed to not get the ones you can use, I get so many strength gems that I have managed to build 4 square ones... as a wizard! (?!?!)

MrPT, with respect to enchant levels, the higher the player level the better your enchant chances. At least that is the way it is now.

sounds like some good things are coming but instead of being able to upgrade the epic gear further maybe you could introduce Exotic items which are better than Epic gear and able to upgrade the secondary stats but need specific items for those? just an idea but im looking forward to the new update :)

David, will an update that allows the consumption of Scraps being released this week? I only ask because this material type is consuming over Half of my inventory, and it would be a complete waste to simply sell it for 10k gold.

A trading system in general would be pretty nice...

I second JoMaLe's question about the guild cap on membership. We've had to kick some of our less-active members to make room for some of our current members. We hope those members will come back when new content is released, and want to have room for that to happen.