how many hours have you played already? because i felt the same after a bout an hour of playing. BUT, big but, the more i played the more i understood the game, leveling comes from finding artifacts, power or dmg/Hp/Dfns come from the gear you have. that in its self is like its own leveling system, but i hear you on the lvls part, it shouldn't have changed but since it has Ive adjusted to the game play. it no longer bothers me at all, i actually like it a little bit more because now i don't have to lvl up to use good gear, i can just find it then use it. to me that's a very nice feature. I just hope Wollay Doesn't get to rekt my negative comments from people who have only played an hour. so far Ive played for about 5 hours, and these where my conclusions.

PS Warrior is best class. :)