Cool starting outfit example.

Wouldn't waste time with a game having to start out looking like this.

Maybe the interior of the skill could drain over time, or maybe a bar on top of the skill, like we get when using a Rune charge for "The Flitsmoke" or "Treefeller" Runes.

I don't mind counting in my head, but when I have a temp stat boost, it would be nice to know how much extra time I might have before the skill ends.

The sidearm doesn't fit Soulframe. It feels like it was designed for a shooter, not an RPG. In a shooter a sidearm makes sense as a backup when you run out of ammo or need a quick swap. In Soulframe it just feels useless. The only thing I ever use it for is popping ranged targets when I'm running a melee build, which is barely a use case. It doesn't serve a real purpose in this kind of game. I tried using different sidearms with the bow to manage melee encounters, but they do little damage and do not feel effective for this purpose. They are an awkward addition to the loadout.

Solution

Get rid of sidearms and replace them with a second weapon slot. That's the RPG standard. Two weapons you can equip and swap between depending on the situation. It gives players actual build flexibility and makes switching weapons feel meaningful rather than awkward. A second weapon slot fits the game Soulframe is trying to be. A sidearm doesn't.

It seems the only source of Whisprig for now is Mockeries, which honestly drop a very low amount of this resource. I tried checking the Trader about 10 times, but he never sold any. I suggest increasing the amount of Whisprig dropped by Mockeries, as well as possibly allowing us to receive it from other sources as well.

I'll split my feedback into 4 sections, each talking about both negatives but also positives of the current systems, those being "Equipment Progression", "Tempers", "Runes" and a personal gripe of mine to be added, "Player Progression", genuinely hope I don't come out as too annoying here given some of my complaints.

I'll also not mention any aspect of the monetization added with the update as I feel that's a whoooole separate discussion that must be had between the devs and the playerbase, I'm still making this in good faith about the team's intentions with the game as well.

Part 1 - Weapon Progression

One of the main problems with the newly added progression added with P15 in my opinion is the way your path never feels it's "funneling down" towards a objective, what do I mean by that? Imagine you just got a weapon up to Officer tier, you made your Chordstones, you upgraded it from Stock, to Military, now to Officer, and the next step now requires a specific special resource for you to get, Glow Lampyrite, the description of it is super vague so you don't even know where to start searching for it but hey, can't be that hard right? One Whispering Chordstone and 4 of it sounds easy enough right? So you set out to farm it, get the materials, upgrades your weapon to Noble, nice! Next step should be even easier now with a better weapon till you realize you need 2 Lilting Chordstones for a Melodious one...plus 5 of a RARER resources to make it, your previous farm hasn't ended, in fact you'll need to double it first before you can make the next one, and only then get the material you need for the next upgrade, it's more rare so you gotta farm harder AND you need more of it than your previous farm, but it should be okay right? Next tier can't be as bad.
So you get your Weapon to Noble, one tier left, and for it you need... **4 whole Melodious Chordstones**, meaning whatever you just did needs to be done 4 additional times, and then a EVEN RARER resource is needed in a EVEN LARGER quantity than before, you need 4 times the Glow Lampyrite, 4 times the Amber Lampyrite, and somehow a MIRACLE to get those 7 Faer Lampyrite for that upgrade, it is a UNGODLY amount of farming, every new step feels like a insurmountable task instead of feeling closer to your objective because the way it is set up to always exponentially increase the amount of time you need to spend acquiring the materials, it is NOT satisfying to go through this process at all, specially not when every upgrade is it's own Dice Roll on what new Temper you are getting!

My suggestion here is to effectively do a 180° on how the current resource costs function, as well as adding a bit more nuance to the general drops from them.

Glow Lampyrite here should be your "common reagent", your first effective progression farm, drops in low quantities in starter content like Votives, overworld chests and even a chance from dropping from any boss, a "common reward" that you need lots of but the game presents multiple ways to acquire, in this case as well it's general price when used to make a Lilting Chordstone could be increased as it is made more plentiful, anywhere from 5 to 8 to 10, depending on just how much more common it is made, just make it drop in almost any common content.

Then going from Glow and Lilting to Melodious has you using just 1 extra Lilting Chordstone, plus *half* the amount of Glow Lampyrite used before, why? Because Amber now is meant to become a more *uncommon* resource, a specific reward from specific missions with a much much more solid chance of dropping the better you do, S-Ranking a Siege, or a Organ, or a Collector, Higher Level Dungeons and the likes, getting Amber Lampyrite is a more active farm in comparison to Glow, but you need less of it because of such, Glow still can drop *in conjunction* to Amber as Amber is specifically a reward for certain activities while Glow is a general drop, meaning the better you play, the more chances of Amber you get.

For the last step now following the formula, Faer Lampyrite and Rhapsodic Chorstones effectively work as a more "final endgame" resource, needing either just one or two of Faer for the upgrade as the player is required to properly plow further into the game's difficulty to acquire it, probably where the Cogah would be required? I get some people aren't fond of the need to engage with the "hard mode" of the game, but I do think that if the idea is keep a sense of progression to the journey that it is somewhat needed to make sure players are being pushed to engage with it, partially the point why such equipment enhancements even are available, Cogah bosses could have now increased chances at Amber Lampyrite while Faer is dropped by completing seiges or dungeons under the Cogah, ensuring every step of the way properly feels like a "step" forward and now a step up a endless mountain.

It's also worth noting here I think they should just do away with Stock Weapons and Hushed Chordstones, those literally serve no purpose other than bloat the progression and weapons coming always with at least 1 Temper guaranteed makes sure the players are able to get accustomed with the system early on by default.

Another take I have, one maybe a bit less agreed upon is to introduce some more faction specific resources to be used on the upgrading, right now it feels the factions aren't exactly very distinct nor well established, you'd imagine generic ichor creatures would be controlled by the Ode but...no? They're always fighting Sludgehogs and the floating lanterns and that just feels very confusing? Having a player hunt down some specific faction to acquire materials for their weapons is somewhat of a fun way to design faction-tied activities that get us those items, like Mockery weapons requiring "mockery whispers" to upgrade or something, so that allows something like a pure Mockery dungeon to be made for that purpose allowing the faction to shine more by themselves by having content catered towards their style, it would be an extra layer of farming, but I think it'd work well enough.

Now, another thing about those resources is making sure their half-life ain't beginning and ending only at the upgrading of the equipment in question, instead, by giving more general, repeatable functions to them I believe their use can extent to further into the game, specifically tied to Tempers, I do think the fact weapons now can drop fully built is a great idea, but that "rarer" weapons should therefore have more fixed rarities (Dropping a "Stock" Gathannan just feels kinda insulting), the ability for one to seek out those also should probably be a bit more flexible, a lot of bosses in the game have 30 Minute timers to them that makes the process of searching for specific items very tedious, crafted weapons also should probably then have their rarity be fixed, you can drop a higher upgrade weapon of course, and skip some of the farming through luck, but starting from the bottom after you already spent the **longer** route farming the fragments is not particularly fun.

TL;DR: Invert the current resource requirements by making Glow Lampyrite a MUCH more common resource and make it be required in larger amounts, as well as expanding it's uses as i'll elaborate in the next section, then make Amber and Faer Lampyrite be required in smaller amounts as they become more specialized rewards for certain tasks completed, rarer resources being required in smaller amounts, optional to also add faction-specific resources to the upgrading of weapons from matching origin, also establish a baseline rarity for certain harder to acquire weapons and fully built weapon drops.

Thanks to the fact, that every category of weapon- origins having a different pool of Tempers, the System can be expanded very wide, which would encourage a lot of customisation for players.

I like the fact that for example the weapons of Mendicant origin can have the Temper to cause bleeding on hit, Dendrit weapons can cause fire damage on hit.. and don't get me started on the "primed" Feykin Tempers *Chefs kiss*

Many people complain about how this system works, or that the Chaos Chordstones in paticular can "reset" a weapon if it goes bad/ wrong.

To be honest, this feature is nice. I like it. Because as of now, Feykin- origin weapons are unique.

If you upgrade them to Sovereign quality, but don't like the Tempers they have, just reset and repeat the whole upgrading process.

I'm currently starting to buy just 100s of Odiacs at the Alcas Children Enclave and upgrading the 1-2* versions, that have Tempers I'd like to have on a Legendary version.

So far the Chordstones are a bottleneck, but the Odiacs can just sit in my inventory until I have the one I absolutely want. I have played games in the past, where your equipment had a chance to break. The higher you upgraded it, the higher the chance of breaking it in further attempts.

The new crafting System is exactly this. You only need to get some good 1-2* weapons, that you get every 2nd step along the way.. and start crafting =)

If there are weapons for you, that you want at Legendary Rank with BIS Tempers (in your own view), then it would require you to be either lucky or try some different approach like sticky cheese or exploit.

We kind of have to work the Systems we have, give them time and I myself consider at least 90% of content currently in game as subject to change in one form or another. 

Getting like 10% standing for each completed step, instead of only getting the 100% after fully completing, would make it feel less bad. Or fixing the problem, but that takes time and effort.

And I'm wondering if there is even a chance of getting the equipment options I want. probability right now is highly unlikely.

Honestly, I'm worried because of the reset in this part.

Getting hit while trying to parry is one thing, but even blocking often fails to protect the player. Characters stab at empty air despite enemies standing right in front of them, and the system severely limits tactical positioning and target control. It feels like a disease infecting the entire combat system

This is an extremely urgent issue, DE...

Please focus on getting the game itself functioning properly first

Weapon Drop Change:
Overall, I like this more than expected and I can see how this will be a valid path to equipment moving Forward. While the quality of dropped weapon seem a bit on the low side, the refining process makes high rank weapons theoratically achievable.

However, the existence of moonsteel weapons makes the optimal upgrade path seem "wait until a moonsteel weapon drops and upgrade that to legendary", unless we get the ability to upgrade a weapon to moonsteel grade later.

Refining
Refining in General is a solid idea that can act as a good pity System.

The drop rates for the required materials are, in my experience, abysmal. I have had only one drop of glow lampyrite on regular mode in a dungeon, even thoug I completed several Organs, Sieges and collector Events and beat several agari in the progress. I did not spent as much time during cogah, but even after killing about 5 agari and running several Dungeons i have yet to get a single drop of higher lampyrite.
The amount of higher grade weapons dropped is too low as well to make disassembling of copies a valid source of chordstone.

Tempers
The temper lottery at the Moment leaves a sour taste as well. I hope in the announced temper system we will be able to somewhat controll / lock  tempers individually - rolling all tempers on a legendary weapon at once would be a huge Slot machine that should be avoided.
Plus, it's weird that ranged tempers can roll on melee weapons.

Totem changes
The new totems work fine, I don't have any issues with the totems directly.
A side effect of the reliance on smite: those effects are very bright, and since you can stack smit effects rapidly with some totem combinations, you can basically flashbang yourself (and other players). The VFX should be toned down a bit.

Inventory & UI
This part Needs much more work to ease inventory and loot management.
While the sorting Option in the inventory from the hotfix helps a bit, it is still somewhat messy to navigate other screens (like Tuvalkhane's interface).
Special Weapon effects like double tempers or moonsteel Need to be higlighted more prominelty in my opinion.

For totems, the sorting seems to be janky at best - if you Level 2 of the same totems up, they are not adjacent in the equip menu. There Needs wo be a better sorting Option, as well as an easier solution to Managing / dissolving duplicates instead of handling each totem individually.

I would like to see the following Features to improve loot Management:

• Favoriting / locking of Equipment to Prevent accidental dismantling
• Auto loot filters (i.e. Auto dismantle weapons below noble quality on pickup, excludeing moonsteel)

Combat
General Combat flow is in a good spot. There are more enemies in P15 and they aggro from a larger distance, which is fine for me.

However, this highlights the existing issues with the targeting / lock on System we had for a while. The game seems to snap on to a target based on some sort of threat Level. I had multiple instances were I was in melee Combat with enemies - when an archer hit me, my envoy tried to swing at the archer, who was Standing a good 25m away from me. In Cogah, this is fatal. The issue can be alleviated a bit by not using directional Input or Blocking shortly before attacking to Focus on the enemy you want to hit, but it is detrimental to the Combat flow.

Miscellaneous
There are a number of Bugs present that have been reported by other players regarding disappearing weapons, Progress stopper etc. I have not experienced those, but they need to be fixed.
Tecnical performance of the new update is great for me, I didn't notice any problems or loss of perofrmance due to the new Rendering tech (Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 4070, 4k Display).

My personal feedback for P15:
I see potential in the new system and was positivley surprised by it and I can only applaud the courage to try somthing new. But there will need to be major balance adjustments. The aftermath of my playtime with P15 left me somewhat annoyed, and the main reason for this is the low drop rates of lampyrite.

Maybe I was unlucky, maybe something with the drop tables is not working right - but I think 10h over a couple of days and on a weekend is a realistic amount of time to invest at a game and should somewhat enable some slowish progress beside passive loot drops.

Lampyrite drops should be increased across the board - it's fine if there are larger stashes locked behing coga or S rank completion of sieges, but this shouldn't be the only way to acquire even a limited supply, given that sieges are time locked and agari have spawn timers. I'm fully aware of the possibility of siege sharing, but this prevents one of the core features cited in the game - exploration and the ability to do something interesting in more spots. Cogah is a bit annoying as well since it encourages meta-builds, somewhat limits your access by potion materials  and boots you out of it with an unskippable cutscene.
I don't expect a walk in the park, everything drops in 1h of playtime - but I think that there should always be some paths to materials like lampyrite / chordstones besides pure RNG and grinding cogah / time gated events (for example, accessibility in faction shops, the option to convert uneeded joineries etc.), and even a slower paced game like Soulframe  aims to be should not mutate into a second job.

Dear DE-Team, I'm hopeful that the next hotfixes will solve some of the issues, and that you continue to adjust to the community feedback while keeping your vision of the game intact. 

I mean.. I get we need a money sink, but this is just way too much; don't you think?
why would we ever trade in this case; either give us more dracs per kills/chests or lower the dracs fee by ATLEAST 60%;

Kind regards

This is a huge bottleneck, especially for a resource that should be pretty common. mockeries drop it maybe 20-30% of the time and aren't common enough to be a great source for farming, and don't even get me started on how little the sproutlings drop it. What's their droprate, like 1%? Why?

Just a dev PSA / FYI 

One of the aspects of Warframe / Soulframe I genuinely & strongly enjoyed was how weapons were NOT tied to the classic "random properties / gotta grind 2000 copies of it until you find a good one" system we can find in so many ARPG / Looter Shooters / etc. I really appreciated how it was all about crafting : grinding to obtain the ingredients / components necessary to craft the weapon, but once crafted, that's it, you are set. Every copy is exactly the same, no RNG roll involved. You can mod it / reforge it for specific, set effects you like, but there is zero RNG attached to the end result. RNG only affect how quickly you get there - and getting there does not involve a lot of "rerolling". I'd grinded every single weapon / armor / etc, in both games, and enjoyed it. Was totally ready to grind more.

Logging in to find the same weapon rarity system & RNG properties we've seen in a trillion games has completely & totally destroyed every ounce of motivation / enjoyment I had. Yes there is a "rarity upgrade" system, and that is a GREAT idea that improves the system a thousandfold! But  - unless I missed something / PLEASE tell me I was blind as a bat & missed something - there are still also random modifiers / properties. One can't grind / aim for specific "tempers", one has to reforge a bajillion times until they miraculously roll what they want. Please tell me I'm wrong.

Please add a system that allows us to pick & choose which "mods / tempers" we want & grind for them. Please make sure there is always a path that involves a big fat zero "rolling" RNG / only RNG on whether you get lucky with the required resource drops yes / no. Full disclosure : that sounds like so much work I'm not sure it would actually bring me back, but at least it would fix the "oh no yet another game ruined by RNG rolls" feeling / have a chance at doing so.

I'm guessing it won't be easy to balance well in order to satisfy both crowds, but recommend / hope you attempt doing so.

Thanks for the game / have a great week / GLHF

Before I could prepare a weapon to have better dodge window, more dodge attack damage and faster attack to try a dodge agile build, now I must be extremely lucky and get those effects randomly in the specific weapon I want while totems are really generic and only useful when smiting... 

I don't have the desire to play like before, why would I? To get a weapon that is useless and being unable to change builds because now I must grind the specific weapon to do it?

Tempers and totems effects should be swapped. Joineries are a joke and totems can't define your build anymore, those are the things we can choose. Take the useful choices out of RNG and put them where we can choose them.

I'm a founder, I spent a lot on WF and already here, I'm not coming from a hate position. But if this is the direction the game is gonna take, I'm not onboard, sadly I will leave the ship.

2.When I use TETHRON with a melee build and equip the NOBLE NESTLING totem, I occasionally get an extremely high attack speed. At first, I thought this was caused by stacked buffs from QUICK DREY, though this totem cannot stack its effects. After testing, I found that once the Courage buff granted by pull smite (Red) expires, the actual HP drops drastically.Seriously?The game interface only displays the real HP value after the HP changes, which is definitely a mistake.

3.When I tested whether the passive effects of totems on main and sub  weapons can stack, I found that LINGERRING LITTER seemingly has no effect. The duration of the light orbs remains 10 seconds whether this totem is equipped or not, and I have no idea what is causing this issue.

4.The trading fees are excessively high. I traded a The Hollowing Rune and 10 Glow Lampyrite for 20 Whisprig from a friend, and each of us was charged roughly 50,000 in fees. And I only have less than 300,000 currency in total.

Combat currently relies excessively on Smite. The majority of damage comes from Runes and pull smite effects, leaving SMITING STAG as the only practical choice.
When it comes to Rune options, the ranged flyblade PICKTRIX is undeniably the best pick. It can proc Smite efficiently while dealing strong burst damage. For melee weapons, heavy weapons paired with EVERFLAME deliver solid sustained damage, aided by Smite trigger from the flyblade.
The main problem is that nearly all gameplay revolves around Smite, which narrows build diversity down to just one optimal setup. This build is versatile, easy to use, effective and reliable, making all other configurations feel underpowered. I have also tested attack speed-focused builds — which still lean heavily on Smite — only to get poorer survivability and lower overall damage. Tanks have no place in the current meta; only damage dealers are viable, with no demand for tanks or healers.
I sincerely hope more distinct build archetypes outside Smite-focused setups will be added in future updates.
Rune-focused builds: Runes regenerate passively, and totem combinations can further speed up this regeneration. Sustaining high Rune stacks grants massive offensive and defensive bonuses, while expending Runes consecutively unleashes devastating one-shot burst damage.
Attack speed builds: Landing hits stacks bonuses to attack power, defense and HP regeneration, alongside multiple stacking attack speed buffs.
Defense & counterattack builds: A taunt mechanic is essential first. The counterattack window and hit detection should be expanded — precise counterattacks are incredibly hard to pull off with high network latency — and counterattack effectiveness needs to be improved.
Skill damage builds: Basic attacks reduce skill cooldowns and boost skill effects, allowing players to deal high damage against single targets or groups with abilities.
There are countless fun and viable build directions to explore. Unfortunately, with the current mechanics, players can only create Smite + Rune builds.
The current combat interaction experience remains unsatisfying. Stiff action lockouts, clunky counter hit detection, insufficient in-game prompts, and underwhelming rewards make players reluctant to engage with these mechanics. Especially when farming gear and items, players will always prioritize stacking buffs and dealing massive damage to clear fights quickly over engaging with combat interactions.
I’ve seen suggestions to nerf smite proc rates, but I believe this won’t fix the core issue. In truth, developers can always tone down overpowered builds via balance tweaks and number adjustments — such dominant setups can be nerfed at any time. However, this will only lead to widespread complaints from most players due to drastically reduced efficiency and ruined gameplay experience, leaving only a small group of hardcore players showcasing their skills.
Therefore, improving combat interactions should be the top priority. I’ve been playing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 lately, and its combat system is excellently designed. Every class requires players to learn, adapt and optimize builds around combat interactions. You can definitely draw valuable inspiration by trying the game or watching related gameplay videos.
That said, moving toward a soulslike design could be interesting in its own right. But blending soulslike gameplay with looter mechanics would be a poor decision. These two genres have fundamentally different core loops and player goals; you cannot force players to pursue two opposing playstyles at the same time.

Wishing the game continued success and ongoing improvements.