The Elder Scrolls: Blades 12+

I have tried playing this game some many times in hope that the updates they do are useful to the game but they just haven’t. The only way you’ll do good in this game is if you spend stupid amounts of money on it and it’s just not worth it. I haven’t spent a penny on this game and reached level 42 but now everything is too tough to beat because you get spammed by enemies that have basically no cool down times on their stamina based abilities and their magic ones as well so you can’t do anything except lose and damaged amour. The events are crap they literally don’t give you enough stuff and the developers don’t care about the player at all they just want your money but they can get stuffed. Since I am level 42 and have deadric armour and weapons I thought I would get loot that near that or just below but no I get dwarven and elven Weapons and armour and elder scrolls players all know that that’s just so low level compared to deadric weapons and armour that it’s just unfair and pathetic that the game gives you this stuff when you have just fought so hard to get anything against spammy turtling enemies making everything you do feel pointless. So sum it all up enemies will spam you and you’ll die straight away, you don’t get any good loot unless you spend real money and the finally the developers are basically money grabbing goblins.

In the new update, Blades has improved so much! Now that the chest timers have been removed, the game has a less pay to win feel. The combat system had improved a lot as well. After the initial release, I played it quite a bit, but as I reached around lvl 20, things got slow and I had to grind for ages to get anything done. I’d get a legendary chest then have to wait a day to get the loot, even though I’d spent quite a while trying to clear a really hard level. The grinding interrupted the flow of the story as well, which is a bit picky, but true.
The actual amount of loot has gone up as well, so hopefully I won’t have to wait a long time to gather resources to level up my town to do certain quests. Trying to level up your town to play a storyline quest that is now really easy by that time really bugged me. I’m not sure whether that’ll be better yet, but I hope it is.
So yep, Blades is better now, and I think I’ll enjoy it a lot more than I used to. I haven’t tried out the arena yet, but I’ve been waiting a long time for it to be unlocked, so I’m hopeful.
Edit: The new arena is pretty good! The ranking system is really well done, and I’m enjoying the experience. One tiny problem is that when you lose, you lose a lot of points, but maybe that’s just my bad fighting.

Chests take too long to open, it’s too easy to accidentally spend your gems on opening one and the combat seems a little disproportionate with earlier enemies like goblins, as you level up ie they become much harder to kill when if anything they should be a little easier. I too would like to be able to free roam outside of the city as at the moment my world is quite small within those gates. Though I’m guessing the harbour may be open to me in future?? A few tweaks would improve things but overall this is fantastic. That said I feel the slating comments and low scores are not deserved, this is an early access and can be played for hours without spending anything. It’s looks good plays well and has plenty of time to be enhanced, maybe if they had a ‘paid’ version that gave you massive reductions in waiting times and a world expansion a lot would pay to play, but they have to make money somehow. Also, aren’t they after feedback to improve for full release?

Final thought... can you give us a way to filter the potions by type