Heartwood Online - MMORPG

My old review was 4 stars, but I can't recommend it anymore, with little in the way of updates. The game is painfully unbalanced, both in terms of classes and drop rates. Mage is barely viable- I naively mained one, assuming that my failures were just down to skill, but after starting a cleric, it's night and day. Cleric is so much stronger. And the devs really haven't figured out that tweaking drop rates is an art, not just an install of raw rng. Killing 20 enemies with no drop is not fun.

I'm somewhat enjoying this hack and slash pixel game, but it's kinda hard to really enjoy. like what's up with the quest. why can't I just do them right away. and why are quest rewards items I can't use until I level up some more? leveling is tedious, so slow. maybe add some group dungeons where you just q-up to make the game more entertaining. that could be a fun way for us to level up. I don't man, the game just doesn't motivate me to level up, doesn't feel rewarding enough.

Such beautiful graphics and mechanics. I really like that. But that's about it. Devs force you to play as a certain class and lock players out of most content and equipment. No freedom to customize my build. It's also very grindy way too early on. Also fishing is stupid. You can even cook fish to have healing food. Oh and bank space is abysmal. Can't log in, won't let me change Google accounts!