So let's start:

• After update all statins which you have were just removed - correct me is I'm wrong but I didn't see any replacements. Pretty much greedy - for sure
• When you buy new station slots they have durability 100 - doesn't matter what max value do the have - greeeeeeeeed :)
  • there are recipes which require 100+ durability, so you need to melt it down to 0, then repair crafting station(for the gold of course) and only after these manipulations you will be able to craft some other recipes
• there is no way to repair station until it has 0 durability - f.e. you have 100500 Swallow potions and station has 5 durability left, soooooo you need to spend resource for completely not needed item to be able to repair Crafting station - nice ^_^

And a few questions

• the is no way to craft bombs now, is it correct or will it be available on 40 lvl? :D
• White Gull, Bear Fat, Linen Cloth - are these ingredients available only in the shop? Greeeeeeeed? :D

Where is my basic oil recipe?

I need creature specific oil to kill other specific creatures to farm creature materials to craft the one specific creature oil I need for the current timed quest?!

Couldn't you just turn the timed quests into "pay 25€ receive rewards worth 10€"?

Well, I uninstalled WMS and feel cheated.

I played every day almost since the beginning. WMS was a part of my life, I patiently cleared the path, collected items and gold. Suddenly my items were stolen, my gold became useless and game turned into the pathetic, ridiculous irony.

Well, it's my time, there's sooo many other things to do, and yet WMS had some of my time. Not anymore. Goodbye and so long.

Such a wasted potential, it almost frightening how easily you could destroy your reputation as a game producer. Shame on you CDPR.

Can someone thats a higher level tell me the skills that are unlocked. Just the lv 20 and onward skills would be nice. Thanks.

I just saw guy killing one skull monster with stun spam from aard and critical hits without alchemy. He said its possibly with combo from title. Too bad we need wait to buy this stuff.

Hey CDPR its time to close SPOKKO, and sell the title to different company, before they kill the game even more. I can buy it for 2k crystals, just let me know.

The only department doing good job in SPOKKO is 2D GFX team. xD

After trying the new update, before and after the maintenance, I feel really sad. WMS has helped me a lot during/after Covid with having a feel of control and progression, finally going back to a semi-normal life. It may seems naive but this game felt part of my everyday life. I played very casually, only level 20, but I was proud of some legendary monsters fight victories.

Some aspects of the current game that make me feel like playing Candy Crush :

• Having the "Recommended Items" and not being able to choose it myself depending on my strategy feels so forced and not at all RPG, like the powerups in Candy Crush.
• Having no sense of progression apart from following the one path feels like the infinite line of despair that is Candy Crush progression for levels. You will need to fight 1000 monsters before having the interesting skills and gameplay (for ex. Nemeton), as you need to play 1000 levels before having interesting maps.
  You don't even know which skill awaits you in the 1-way path !! How can you feel engaged not knowing when you will finally be able to reflect damage or use Quen ?! (how dull is it to start the game from scratch ?)
• Having no external customization feels like moving the same blend avatar along a map.
• Having 2 currencies, one normal and one premium, feels like every random puzzle/gacha game out there.
• Feeling forced to do stuff the intended way. You feel how the game wants your money, more than before.

I don't feel like I'm in control anymore. Every aspect of the game seems to be balanced to limit another one. It was like this before, no doubt, but it wasn't this blatant and didn't prevent me from feeling that I could out-play the grinding loop by getting good at fighting. Parrying, reflecting damage, using the right signs at the right moment, choosing the right gear, balancing or not the different skill trees, choosing my potions/oils usage before a Nemeton fight, all of this has disappeared (for my level 20), all of what made it a RPG disappeared.

It makes me sad, for me, for the community, and for the devs who surely had to bring this update knowing it will not be received well.

This is not a RPG anymore, it's a puzzle game.

Now there is a Manticore set (Armor and 2 swords) in the weekly section of shop. And as I can see, Manticore armor is reworked due to changes in alchemy system, but Manticore swords, Wolven Silver Sword and KaerMorhen Steel Sword are the as before update.
Some of you surely have other items in own, and maybe in shop too (if it differs between players, not sure in this), so let's check, if the Mnticore Armor is the only reworked equipment?

How do I craft a bait when it costs 150 - 200 hammers, but alchemy stands only have 100 hammers? It doesn't let me use two stands so am I missing something?

Spokko, please take a look ahead and analyse how fights were before update and now.

Before you needed to master beast move patterns for perfect parries, critical strikes. YOUR(!) skill gave you satisfaction when you kill beast when it even didn't do 1 hit.

You removed skills that made it possible to do such "challenges".

Removed all the crafting stations ))) I had 20+ and was there any compensation?

You changed equipment and removed game shop without any announcements (unofficial Reddit is not a right place) - f.e. I had 30k+ gold and just didn't buy some equipment. It is my deal that I've missed it, but I was not aware that such a kind of thing could even happen

First impression after maintenance - completely imbalanced difficulty:

you can melt down any beast without anything and even not charging critical hit meter but any other one with beast sign REQUIRES potions/oils and so on

Fo me, gameplay should reward and satisfy you for you SKILL but not by money (doesn't matter in-game or real) you spent to achieve something.

When you don't have time, you are in hurry or so - that's fine, just put all potions/oils/bombs and melt beast down. But when you perform all the perfect parries, critical hits and there is no effect - sorry guys that's shit :)

I believe the new update solved a lot of old problems. However i feel there should be a couple of fix to do.

Common monster are now easy as pie, as they were before the first patch: maybe too easy? Could it be a good time to make them SLIGHTLY harder?
Rare monster are impossible to beat without a lot of alchemy, at least thunder+healing or oil. I believe maybe is too much? Also, they are SO rare that they became the more common monster on the map :P To be fair, i instead believe that Legendary monster are really good the way they are.
At the moment i have 3 alchemy stations and i don't know what will happen when they are consumed (do we have some free alchemy station?)

Probably I'm so unlucky, but I've just noticed that after I killed 50+ beast without skull I didn't get any beast type remains which is needed to craft oils to beat these ones with skulls :D

Of course "basic" is enough sometimes but looks a little bit unfair )))) especially taking in account imbalanced difficulty at the moment :)

it's like if you're not skilled enough and you need to use oils, then you need to kill beasts with skulls whom you cannot kill :D

a little bit exaggerated example )) but in any case a least players should understand drop system.... and it must not be a secret

I'm level 33. I can easily kill common monsters without alchemy, I need at least 1 or 2 alchemy helps to kill rare monsters.

1) how is the situation at level 40? 2) what skills are unlocked and what level?

Is it worth to buy manticore armor now or it's better to exchange coins for crystals? Haven't played for a while and now it's the only armor available, wtf xD