Dear PWI Management! (Compliments and complaints)

Dear PWI Management! (Compliments and complaints)

First of all, I'd like to thank you for this beautiful game you have created! It is truly a work of art and very well done from the site design through the game's looks and mechanics, as far as the very last bit. The servers are practically lagless as far as I can tell, and the game is more than just entertaining, it is downright addictive!

I have all wonderful things to say about your game, the world, and some of the people I've met here.
- By playability and general mechanics the game is up to par with every other mmorpg out there, of course there are flaws here and there but nothing some good testing and patching can't solve.
- By appearance PWI beats most MMOrpgs out there. Hands down.
- The PVP system shows signs of attempting to balance, unlike another game I've been playing for a while now. (Not advertising other games on your forums of course.)
- PVE combat seems sometimes lacking but that might be because I haven't reached the higher levels yet.

Here come a few personal observations, opinions and suggestions if I may. Disclaimer: we are all human beings by some luck and we might err. I call things as I see'em, feel free to correct me if you see I'm wrong.
Everything I say here, I mean as constructive criticism, as to what I think would make the game even more enjoyable.

1. Classes and abilities
- It is apparent that certain classes manage better in pvp or pve than others. Balancing a game is terribly hard I know, so here come a few points I think are valid. They are just opinions from a random person so feel free to discard or consider as you see fit.

a.) Time management while in PVE (aka Leveling, Grinding)
Level 2 to 10 is too easy. Hands down. And after level 10 you suddenly start to take too much damage for comfort and your leveling drastically slows down. Instead of forcing downtime (sitting and recovering) the amount of monsters one needs to kill could be increased in quests as well as their loot, in trade for much higher repair costs on the player gear. This would ensure that people indeed need to spend time and effort grinding, while a steady pace could be kept without needing to sit and do nothing (aka Meditate, recover) for an elonged time.

b.) Character progress. (aka experience and spirit points)
I'm not the only one that has noticed that despite all my efforts I still get the same amount of spirit points per kill despite the increased spirit cost for spells/abilities/skills. This is very bad especially as there seems to be no valid way of unlearning / resetting your skills learned. I have started to like a spell earlier on and later on noticed a better one, but then I already spent a serious amount of spirit on leveling the previous one which apparently made me fall behind on spirit progress. Despite all my effort, my character would need over a hundred thousand spirit points to catch up. I'm struggling to get the twelve thousand it takes to get a single skill next level.
I think it might be just me misunderstanding the system or missing something, but I'd appreciate if it was possible to pay an amount of coin to unlearn all my spells/abilities for spirit refund so I can fix any mistakes I've made.

c.) Character viability (**Crash boom bang** CLERIIIIC!!)
Like I said, downtimes are horrible, you spend way too much time sitting and you barely make enough cash to stock up on those potions. Charms?? Dream on...
- Aggro is terrible sometimes, a monster may randomly pop up right next to you and engage you despite you having engaged yet another. It would be better to give players some time to breathe in my opinion.

- I especially noticed this for the Cleric and Wizard class but you can choose between not having enough mana but wearing armor and risking death in two hits but running out of mana anyway, while the experience- (and what's worse, the spirit-) gain is drastically lowered in a party(or squad).
Currently there are no spells that would properly protect the caster, as well as there are no possible ways for melee classes to avoid death.

d. The bottom line: Teamplay is not rewarding at the moment.

Like I said above: the experience- (and what's worse, the spirit-) gain is drastically lowered in a party(or squad).
It makes little sense in my opinion that a group would gain less and soloing would be more rewarding.
My suggestion would be to reward squads rather than solo play by increasing XP gain in squad as long as the character level difference is not too great (or even for those people in squad on the same quest, thus encouraging team play).

I'll check back when I can come up with more to rant about ,thank you for reading this and thank you for the fun!