On mindflayer giving stuff to guildies. It's not about the economy it's about allowing bugs to go unfixed and then rewarding exploiters while punishing paying/legit players.
I don't know how many assets they need to make, but for Devoted Cleric's it's only a +15-18 dmg and +40 to stats which is still negative because 133 of those stats is armor penetration. It's on the preview shard now, they have set bonuses but they're still +450 no upgrade...