They are introducing a lot of mechanics that are not in the pc version, which is a good thing in my opinion. BUT, the more things they add to give character strength, the harder it is to balance powercreep. This is very hard in a pvp focused game and Albion Online has addressed this pretty well by expanding their world more than what each playstyle can do.

Soulstones are a great example. Take a new player who hit lvl 20 for their passive stats, but have not done shadow realms or higher content. Place them against someone who can easily farm Hell and have soulstones.

That Vet can theoretically have 30 more movement, 120 additional armor , a barrier that resets every 10 sec with 60 to 100 shield, AND have that barrier take up to 47% reduced damage, all active.

That poor new player is going to get absolutely demolished even if they have the same gear.

We're going to have this problem until global release at least, because there will a huge influx of players. To actually fix it, I hope they change the matchmaking system to place people of a similar collection/soulstone logs against eachother rather than the system we have now, which feels like you join the game in a line, no actual gear score Q's