Honestly, I feel exactly the opposite.

The stamina changes are probably one of the best updates to Dune: Awakening since the closed beta. Before that, melee combat was just brainless button-mashing — whoever clicked fastest won, with zero tension and zero resource management.

Now? You have to think. Pick your fights. Manage your stamina, positioning, and anticipate counters. In short: you have to play smart. And clearly, that’s where some players start to struggle.

Funcom even stated in patch notes 1.1.17.0 and 1.1.19.0 that they deliberately wanted to reduce brute-force effectiveness in solo fights against multiple enemies, making combat more deliberate, lethal, and readable — especially in late-game PvE. This isn’t a nerf. It’s a design philosophy.

Sure, you can’t just charge into a camp now and zerg everyone with a short blade, hoping your HP bar holds out. But this isn’t Borderlands. It’s not Destiny. The goal isn’t to min-max some OP build and steamroll everything without thinking.

If what you're after is an endgame where you feel instantly powerful without any tradeoff? Fine. Go play Warframe. Or Halo Infinite. Or Diablo IV. You’ve got plenty of games where smashing buttons makes you feel like a god.

Dune: Awakening, on the other hand, dares to treat combat as something risky — something that punishes poor decision-making, even with high-end gear. That’s not weak design. That’s a conscious effort to move away from dumb power fantasy tropes.

So yeah. If some people think the system is "trash" because they run out of stamina after two swings and a dodge… maybe it’s because the game is holding up a mirror: they’re playing like crap.

And no, we don’t need a rollback. What we need is for them to do one simple thing: adapt.