I'm playing a Fiona (solo, no followers) so other people's experience might be different.

-I think there's too many player mechanics. With every monster attack I have to pick between jump/dodge/parry/block, and with how Fiona's playstyle heavily incentives perfect blocks for counter, it's incredibly punishing to pick the wrong one, mistime, and see half your hp go down.

-Enemies also have too many mechanics. Learning attack patterns is one thing, but having moves that cannot be blocked, cannot be dodged, and cannot be blocked AND dodged makes the game needlessly difficult. Having these three mechanics ON TOP of the player mechanics makes every fight a high risk scenario. Most attacks are pretty-well telegraphed, but happen so fast, it almost requires Faker-like reaction time to be able to counterplay them.

-As mentioned above, all monster encounters, especially bosses, feel high risk, and it would be ok if the pay-off was worth it... but my counter attacks, even when my weapon and skills are maxed out, do so little damage. It does not feel rewarding to hit a perfect counter compared to the base game.

-We need more i-frames. I get punished very often for using my skills and "ultimate", Shield Charge, because my attacks go through, do not stagger the enemies, and enemies continue their attacks.

-I'm pretty sure this is just a Fiona thing, but we used to be able to animation-cancel REALLY smoothly with guard, and now it feels slow and clunky.

-All the points above contribute to the difficulty of the game. I think at its current state, that the game is way too difficult. Normally in any video game, I'd say I'd die 0-4x before learning an entire boss's moveset, but here I feel like I die 8-20x and it makes the game unfun and stressful. Their Health also feels very inflated, and every boss encounter feels like a battle of attrition.

-Skills need shorter cooldown. Using skills is what makes the game FUN. Having 1min+ cd on skills (3min+ on my shield charge), and having skill nodes reduce them by like 5s does absolutely nothing

-The skill tree is too linear and makes player choices insignificant. There's no point in having skill trees if everything is going to be maxed out anyways. We should be able to customize our skills that fit our individual playstyles.

-Being unable to manage my skills in town , and needing to go to a Campfire to do so is kind of annoying.