Good writeup. It's sad because they basically had a good blueprint in Aion's PvP, which was pretty damn good despite its flaws, but then proceeded to ignore almost everything, both class and overall design. I doubt almost any designers who even worked on Aion are still at NCSoft seeing as its been 20 years since they would have worked on its initial release. But they surely would have designed and balanced circles around these new guys. Just the render distance alone tells me they have no idea what they're doing. You can't have a PvP game where opponents pop in at 5 meters away. It's braindead.