I played it for 5h and can say that the game is very, very good! (96% positives on steam!) Quite interesting, as I've never played hack and slash MMO with top down view .
Pros:
- Gameplay is absorbing with interesting skills
- Wide range of available skills (8 skills can be easily attached to quickslots) with otheer 8 for potions/bombs.
- Interesting plot (however I was skipping it after prologue to see more content, so I cannot speak about late parts of the game)
- Massive amount of content, especially if you're collector of items (or achievements) like me. In 5h I barely touched the overall content...
- Nice to see new mechanics in the genre, like jumping and multiple health bars (I prefer it over a single health bar for bosses, where you can barely see it moving)
- As for alpha, I didn't encounter any bugs.
- Many classes to choose from.
Cons:
- It is MMO, so for certain people it may be annoying to share the instance with other players (especially when they are stealing mobs for the quest you're doing, and I'm assuming in full release it will be even worse). I do not mind that much, but personally would prefer to limit occurence of "random" players to cities/safe zones only like in Path of Exile.
- Classes seem to not be well balanced (both strength wise and how interesting it is to play with them). You can see it even more as game is showing you percentage of people on the server choosing a specific class. However, it is still alpha (so subject to balancing) and I didn't have chance to test them in "end-game".
- Not much was said about monetisation (as there is no in-game store at the moment), but already you can see few mechanics that may be considered P2W.
- Voices and subtitles are different (often one thing is written, and completely different thing is being said). I do not mind it in "normal" conversations with NPC, but when it happens in cinematics, it is quite annoying at least for me.
Other:
- Didn't have chance to try PvP or access "Strongholds"
- Cannot tell much about "grind" as I didn't reach end-game.