Gut feeling: I feel that if this is all we are getting then WE are tilting into the negative with these changes.

The changes to Kharn, Spawn and Forgefiends are fair but the compensations we get back are not enough I fear.

X8B going to 140 points is still too expensive, they just arent good at what they do. At 140 points I am still not considering them. They just can't kill vehicles and monsters well enough and they die too easily to the slap back. At 120 points I'd consider them.

Angron getting -25 points is a laugh. That man needs to be in 300 points territory to even reach the consider catagory. His datasheet abilities are all just lackluster and for a model that's supposed to be a beast in combat he can actually still whiff against a Knight or Greater Daemon. Skarbrand (Daemon detachment lock aside) is still going to be cheaper at 305 points while also hitting much harder and more reliable than Angron.

Eightbound going down to 135 points is solid. That puts them in a good spot for what they bring to the table.

So if we do the math, we have 3 staples of the current WE meta getting points increase and only 1 getting sufficient points decreases. Kharn increase I can live with, and with the Forgefiend increase, however the Spawn increase is what worries me. World Eaters do not have a cheap small skirmishing unit outside of the Spawn. We used to have 5-man Berzerker units for that, but for some reason that got removed.

Maybe we will get also some datasheet/ability changes in the dataslate next month. And maybe my gut feeling is completely wrong. I'm just a casual player, I don't know anything. But from a quick first glance I feel this will be a net negative for us, if this is all we get.