1/5 ★ – Maeka's review of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem.

I didn't play the alpha or beta, I just started playing after the game launched and I am liking it so far. I love Diablo however I never could get into PoE but I love the elements they merged together from the two games. I like the skill system, the gear system, and the class system so far and I can't wait to get further in the game. EDIT: Unfortunately after I got past Act 1, the bugs really came out to play. I can't count how many bugged quests and bosses I've run into where I had to restart the game and redo my progress to get past some of them. I've had quests where the NPC gets stuck and you have to restart the game and start from the last waypoint to redo everything. Then I've also had floors disappear on bosses to where people in my party couldn't reach the boss to help me kill them. Act 3 boss I had to restart my game about 7 times because the boss went invulnerable during his conversations but the conversations never actually happened so he ended up standing there not attackable. After the 7th game restart I managed to beat him. Don't get me started on the bugs I've come across while doing Champions of Stormfall. I've run into bosses that won't spawn even though their icon is there on the map which means I can't complete the expedition and have to relog the game and start a new one, I've run into bosses pulling me into walls to where I can't get out and can't complete the expedition, to not being able to trade effectively with my friends because it yells at us for being far from each other when we're standing next to each other. Selling items one by one to a merchant becomes a chore especially when half the times right clicking to sell your stuff ends up with you just picking up the item from your inventory. Then there's a stash bug where your stash can't be closed and you have to either glitch it to close or you have to relog your game. Now that being said I still do like the concept of the game however right now with all the game breaking bugs, this game is more frustrating than enjoyable. I am going to wait for another update to see what they fix because right now the game is too frustrating. I think one of their big mistakes was not allowing people to play the full game in early access because they never fully tested the game out before launching it. In its current form, this game should still be in early access. ----- UPDATE: My husband and I decided to try the game again with the Wolcen Chronicle 1: Bloodtrail update however it feels the same as before. Multiplayer is still very buggy and the skill input lag is annoying. We played for a couple hours and ran into a lot of the same bugs as before. At least it has pets now. >.>