Couldn't agree more
@ShriNayne. It seems like for 3-4 months there was nothing new on TC1 (which could have been used to properly test many things) and then they finally loaded some new stuff to test on TC1 and in about a week they are looking to push the update live. To me that says that this publish is either just a bunch of fluff (ie no real game mechanics that need to be tested like 23rd anniv items) or they have been sitting on this "new" stuff for a couple months... likely it's a combo of both.
I've only seen 1 iteration of the treasures event and 1 iteration of the champ spawn event but both reminded me of the last ToT event (except without a luck mempo as a drop) in that there really wasn't much reason to participate unless you want some collect more decorations. For those that haven't hopped on TC1 the below are the rewards for the treasures event from what I've seen. I spent about 35min killing stuff without getting any "points" or whatever to actually claim a reward but there are only 3 and they all relate to a nautical theme which i'd have no use for.
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As for the champ spawn, I did that for about 20min or so and I did get 2 "drops" in my pack of a ship in a bottle (I think that's also an MIB item too) while working the spawn but called it quits after another 10-15min when the champ spawned with the below stats (was just me at the spawn) and insta killed me in 1 hit every time on my samp with overcapped resist suit + paroxy dragon. I also tried my tamer and he insta killed my fire beetle with 700HP in 1 shot and did 615 damage in 1 hit to my 9x legendary cu sidhe. Long story short this seems like it will not be something somebody can solo AND I'm not even sure what the reward for killing the thing even is to know if it's even worth doing these things.
The mana drain thing is taken from Cora (looks like electricity on the ground) and actually said "Cora has drained you of 117 mana". The annoying thing here is that as you see it has 0 magery yet has magery mastery BUT still will cast spells including teleport (the damage is like 0 because there is no eval). With 5k stam/dex he moves very fast and add to it he teleports and you're pretty much toast if you are a tamer on foot.
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