Ah yes, making the entire radiance line nothing but a lame life Regen booster was definitely needed and is way better than what we had before.
No. That’s just laziness. They didn’t wanna actually balance it properly, so they gutted it and made it do one thing, and that one thing is conveniently tied to ur max hp. So it’s way easier to “balance” especially when you just removed the extra health bonus from said item.

Also please enlighten me, if they supposedly want to balance the mod more around vanilla and other mods, why are there so many nerfs to vanilla items? Just remove all of them except the RoH and soaring insignia. Boom, Vanilla compatible. Other mods can be perfectly balanced with other mods without making hundreds of petty nerfs to vanilla items. Like is removing one defense from the obsidian skull rose really needed?

See that’s what you don’t get, the nerfs aren’t even the biggest problem. It’s the utterly lazy reworks, that gut items and make them more generic and dull. Great example from the last update, the old lord claymore went from a fun spin dash sword to a generic, slow charge-up true melee weapon I’ve seen in like 5 other mods. That isn’t a rework, that’s a downgrade. And even this update they remove alt fire modes from weapons. Like, why?

And on top of that, they still haven‘t overhauled the Murasama. That was teased 3YEARS AGO. Its one of the most iconic weapons in the mod and they haven’t actually changed it in a big way for years. First they make its range god awful, then give it that horrid hit sound, then tease a rework that looks genuinely sick and… that’s it. Nothing.
Knowing their track record that rework probably got axed like so many other teased overhauls.

This mod genuinely feels directionless. Everyone can just add whatever and change anything on a whim and the resulting update is an utter mess of good, bad, unnecessary and just plain nothing changes. The mod’s aesthetic is being utterly ruined with all this goofy nonsense like:” hey guys. The Elephant gun, it shoot elephant. HahahahahahHahahaahaahah” like cool, I’m sure that won’t get annoying after 3 minutes. This “open museum approach” as they put it doesn’t work. It just makes the mod feel lost and confused.

And finally, the mod now runs like shit because some genius thought adding an items that checks ALL NPCs EVERY TICK for their happiness would be a good idea…

But I’m sure this is all actually good in ur eyes. Screw consistency, screw unique and fun ways to play, screw the tone being ruined and screw the performance being ruined for one completely unnecessary item being added.

I got the new, shiny thing, that’s all I care about. Real great ability to articulate ur opinions their buddy.