If I am a new player and I’m reading this thread, I’m immediately looking for another game to play, because it makes absolutely no sense to me.
Other issues: If there is gong to be a way to craft deeds, can we please get back the player-personalized daily adventure tasks? The sole dev-stated reason for locking them to a single daily set for everyone was to give all players equal access to the deeds.
GW matchmaking has been broken for ages, my guild won’t even play it anymore because we keep getting paired with guilds who have big stat bonuses, and we have none, being a strictly casual guild. More stat bonuses we can’t get just increases this disparity. I do not have either the time or the emotional energy to be a “cheerleader” for the game every week in guild chat.
Devs, please make this game a little less about completionism and a little more about being a match-3 puzzler.