At higher levels this game has become stupid.
Before forest I was able to farm T5 and beat T4 Missions without many problems. Now T2 may not be completed. T3 is out of the question.
I need 300 frags to upgrade to T3, next is 900 frags, at the present rate I will be lucky to upgrade one piece of equipment every month or two.
It seems now it is an easy win, or a death.
The game now is build, fight, die, build, respec, fight die...you nerfed our speed but forgot to nerf the NPC's speed. Sometime it takes several rounds of building just to get one try at a kill.
Problems I have noted are....
Level effectiveness is out of wack
Speed is a problem
Not enough rage can be stored

I'm still hoping this is just the first stage and more (lots of) adjustments are still coming to mechanics and balance. But, just in case they aren't fully aware of how the game plays right now we should post our experiences and perceptions as players.

Game mechanics as they are now will simply not work and are driving more and more players away every day. While I don't necessarily think the speed change is a problem, it certainly exacerbates the other problems. It also doesn't appear to be functioning the way you say you designed it. There is apparently NO threshold at which you get 2 turns, even 200%. As Phaque said, combat is now literally an auto-win or auto-lose situation, there is no challenging middle ground. Prior to jungle I could either farm T4s if I wanted quick & easy, or I could do T5s for somewhat of a challenge, though not an insurmountable one. Now, I can either do T2s for a ridiculously easy win, or die over and over again in a T3 that I can never hope to beat. This is, I believe, primarily from the level effectiveness of mobs - a difference in effectiveness seems to have an absurdly greater effect than it should. Mobs get nearly guaranteed crits on you, for more than your possible maximum health, at just 2 lvls higher than you. It would make sense to me if we were capable of doing heroic tiers similar to the tiers of our gear; someone with all T3/some T4 gear should be able to farm T3 heroics and some T4. Instead, we are stuck at the same tiers no matter how upgraded our gear gets (this was kinda true even before jungle as the rate of scaling grew from tier to tier). I would be amazed if T5 and T6 SPs were even possible right now, with maxed out gear and all. I did think heroics needed to be slightly more difficult, but this was quite a radical flip to the other end of the spectrum.

It has a far more favorable psychological effect on your playerbase if instead of increasing difficulty/absurdity of existing content, you add new content with higher difficulty. If people are approaching T6 farm status (nobody was).. add T7. Nobody gets hurt.

There are several other ongoing issues right now related to gear, stats, etc.. but done typing for now. Here's hoping there are still players a week from now.

Cheers

EDIT: I'd also like to mention that while leveling from 30 to 45 as a previously maxed-out character was pretty enjoyable, I've also been playing two low-level alts as if they were new players (purchasing starter packs only). Prior to jungle release and associated balance changes, the difficulty was appropriate for them and it was enjoyable playing them. Now, it is exceedingly difficult to progress through the campaign. I can't imagine many potential new players sticking around if they are having a similar experience.

Hi David,
The mission that I used for reference is Investigate the farmhouse.
Seems all missions, MP's and bounties I have tried are the same, what I once was able to beat or have a chance at, is out of the question.
It almost seems T2 can be completed, T3 is death

Edit:
I am able to get to higher bosses in Hot

While you're on my account be sure to take full points in healthy lest you be oneshotted by a 200k crit in T3 :p

While on the subject of heroic difficulty, might I suggest that the fragment rewards scale non-linearly as well, more inline with the difficulty. Prior to jungle, very few bothered even attempting the next highest tier for them, as +2 frags wasn't worth quadrupling the amount of time it took to clear a mission. I only went for T5s on the weekends because of this. This will be an even bigger issue now as the difficulty gaps have become much larger while the rewards remained in place. The difficulty is nonlinear, the cost of upgrading is nonlinear, why are the rewards linear?

Prior to changes, my alts could beat missions where enemies were 1-2 lvls higher than them, with a little difficulty. Now I must rely on a lucky AoE crit if I wish to beat enemies 1 lvl higher than them, and 2 lvls higher just ain't happening. Scorpions of 2 lvls higher, for example, will get 3-4 attacks between my alt's and almost every one is a crit. I have yet to survive long enough to take a 2nd turn. At least some of this might be attributed to the unavailability of gear for certain slots. I think it was about lvl 22 before I started seeing any helmets, and about lvl 24 before any rings or necklaces came around. No cape until lvl 30 if I recall correctly. Companions can actually be useful while progressing, but only if you can manage to keep their lvl and gear up to par, which is nearly impossible unless you intentionally slow your own progress down significantly. Even then their primary purpose is still to serve as meatshields, *occasionally* their damage may make a difference. Companions also have significantly less gear options than the player character themselves. Only one ring, no necklace, etc. And with it going to take so long to tier up your own gear, companions will be left behind statwise to the point that the ONLY purpose they serve is to absorb exactly 1 hit. The weapons from starter packs help, BUT only for the level that they are. They are replaceable by white/green weapons at the very next level. This last bit could probably be remedied by the "minimum effectiveness" you've implemented on the higher-lvl packs.

How about testing it with an average Joe and not the strongest character in game?

Hmm running some forest and desert T3s now not seeing much difference.. Single-wave battle of 4 mobs kills me pretty good, even with 250k health. Requires lots of luck not getting critted if I want to clear multi-wave battles, OR a respec into full-blown AoE that non-VIP players would be unable to do, and even an average VIP player would not have the damage output to make it successful. Can complete the T3s at least, with some respeccing.. but I very much doubt any T4 would be possible for me at this point. Will try some other T3s and a handful of T4s..

EDIT: Just tried some T1 jungle heroics as well. You weren't kidding.. T1 jungle missions seem to be equivalent or greater difficulty than T3 forest/desert. I just exited the last one I was in, was taking way too many suicide runs to build, etc.

Also, speed really does need to be looked at. At 1425 speed, is it reasonable that the mobs get 2 attacks between mine? If speed is to still matter at all whatsoever, this should not be the case. Especially if a relative 200% is to be the cap, then these mobs have AT LEAST 2850 speed? May as well drop to 0 speed if the mobs get 2 hits between either way...

Don't get me wrong, speed WAS a ridiculous god stat as you have said. It needed a nerfing. I just think something has broken it now..

Tried "Jimmy the Thief" solo bounty on T2. Not only he attacks twice, I also could only kill them with max wall of fire/healthy/intel build +10% class attack pot, +guild AP pots. If you want people to buy pots to do missions that are not even on par with their level/tier, might as well just quit now.