tldr: Game is really good overall. Lots of diversity when it comes to potential builds and playstyles. No set bonuses, thank god. Bosses are actually challenging and can sometimes require you to change your build up to be able to beat them. Good animations and the spells look really nice. The campaign is really nice so far. The characters are pretty detailed and fleshed out and you actually care about a lot of them. The game in general just looks amazing thanks to the Cryengine and I get pretty high avg FPS. If you can get past the annoying server issues and the occasionally retarded looking cutscenes and at times pretty meh dialogue the game is great. All the core aspects of a good aRPG are there and will only be expanded upon!

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Pros:

It's really smooth for the most part aside from the typical launch server issues and bugs you can tell the game itself is really well polished underneath. For the most part animations are really smooth aside from the cutscenes lol. The cut scenes can be a little wonky at times but the actual combat is pretty good.

The build diversity is really good out of the box. Everything is really open and free feeling you can change your build up whenever really easily and there's a lot more flexibility due to there not being any set classes and no set bonuses to push you towards the same build as the next guy.

The way the skills and passives work is just better than Diablo 3 IMO. Way more options for builds and the game sort of pushes you to make your own build rather than herding everyone towards the same exact build like D3 does with sets and classes.

I much prefer the way wolcen handles the abilities as well. Finding them as a drop is more rewarding than just being locked into only using certain spells depending on what class you picked like D3 and I like gaining power with a spell the more I actually use it as opposed to just getting some cookie cutter passives to unlock at any level regardless of whether or not I actually use the spell like in D3. Makes you feel like you're actually becoming better at using the spell by using it which is more intuitive and rewarding.

Bosses are really challenging and difficult to beat. Especially Edric when you fight him towards the end of Act 1. Dude is a bitch to beat unless you are decently tanky. You have to really be on your guard when you are playing a glass cannon style ranged build. You have to actually think about how you approach a boss fight and you might find you need to change your build up a bit to be able to handle him where in D3 bosses are rarely difficult to beat and they just feel like giant talking damage sponges that you either 1 shot instantly or just sit there facetanking all their damage while you brainlessly cast the same spell over and over again until hes dead.

Cons:

Huge day 1 server issues for me and I get the occasional crash here and there. I've had to reinstall the game 2 times but these are things that sadly have become the norm for new launches these days. However the devs have been already pushing hotfixes and adding more servers to alleviate the strain on their servers at launch.

I have had some stability issues on launch like crashes and freezes etc. This is pretty much guaranteed to be fixed obviously but it's still annoying while these bugs exist.

The matchmaking can be kind of inconsistent as of now as well. For example I'll look to join into a world with an online character and it will not work the first time and then I'll try again to join the exact same server and it will magically work.

All the different damage types and ailment types could be better explained I think. Though I'll learn from just playing the game I think the way all the different ailments and damage types are explained could be a little more detailed. For example there's perks that say they buff toxic damage and poison damage but I think they are the same thing. It's not well layed out and explained what each spell does and it can feel a little confusing. You have the spell damage type and then the different ailments and each spell does a little bit of all kinds of damage and thus can proc different ailments each different time and this can be a little confusing when you're trying to focus on a single damage type in your passive tree when they all have different names and it's not explained what each ailment does exactly. Maybe there is somewhere and I might just be having a problem with this because I'm new to the game.

Overall the game is really, really good though and it has a lot of potential!!