So I feel as though no one has actually taken a proper dive into the update and reviewed it (if you have I’m sorry), but this is an honest review from a nobody (REMINDER: Everything I say is opinion based, and not factual)
Let’s start the update by instantly saying it’s amazing.
Fishing is a HELL lot more fun that I thought it was going to be. In my opinion, it’s relaxing, calm and has a nice aesthetic to it. Sure, catching about 1000 anchovies is annoying, but that moment when you see yourself reel in a shark feels SO good.
The rods are unique but just a little expensive to enchant, I honestly was fine with enchanting mine, took me two tries to get magnetic on my collectors rod.
The new sunken pieces REALLY encourage fishing, so much so that I’m not even max level yet because all I do is fish. 1/2000 is pretty hella rare though, and I haven’t been able to fish a single piece (but judging from other people’s views, it’s fair) this isn’t a negative, I’m still going to just keep trying.
The armor itself looks really good, the pants were a bit of a let down as they just look like iron boots. The chest plate looks honestly amazing, the helmet also looks really cool. But I think the best thing here is the sword.
Everyone wants the sword.
Some people have been complaining that the sunken armor isn’t “good” (I don’t see how 3 enchantments aren’t good just because it’s not power). Sure, a random enchant isn’t the best, but if you get lucky, it could be worth it. (However, if you get knockback or destruction as an enchant, it would probably break your heart).
Back to the sword, the looks are really good, but I expected it to be a little bigger.
The animation from the sword is also awesome, can’t really say anything bad about it.
That’s pretty much the whole fishing aspect, you try to fish for sunken armor, and you’re either lucky or you’re not.
Anyway, moving onto the new attack: beams.
Visually, they look amazing, I haven’t gotten into much pvp lately, but they’re still overtaken by blasts. They’re balanced, but not op. They deal 65% of a blast, but are almost instantaneous. Which isn’t worth it for the faster magics, as they’ll already be well. Fast.
Shields on the other hand got a HUGE nerf, so much so they’re pretty much unusable. taking 70% of damage hurts A LOT more than 40%. And perfect blocking isn’t worth it as you just take slightly less damage from a pre nerfed shield, which just isn’t worth it.
Now, the game itself and random things:
Lag - For some reason, I started to lag MORE after the tree update, might have just been me. But a part from that, it’s improved massively, I used to have an average of 200 ping per game, now it’s around 150. Which is real nice.
Quests - The new “kill 6 wizards” isn’t really worth it, it’s honestly a pain to find wizards if you don’t know the map very well (which I don’t), and a lot of the weaker wizards are taken out by new players. I think it also should be an apprentice level quest.
Travelling merchants - Haven’t really noticed many, they’re called “travelling” but I see more of them in towns rather than actually outside.
Vanity - The new backpack is very nice, apart from that though, I’ve seen no one else use any other of the new vanity items.
Anyway. In my opinion, this update was a HUGE success, and definitely worth the wait.