Thank you so much for the update! Fixing a game breaking bug tends to be important, and I'm really glad that we continue to be able to play. The changes you made and quite interesting, especially the choice to allow grow speed to be affected by repeatable upgrades. Here are my thoughts:
-I'm literally never going to be able to progress any more in Hordes with the current content. This is fine, I'd just like to have it soonerish rather than later (Like within the next month or two would be great) An image for context:
Zone 216 is unbeatable to me, but prestiging will reduce my shards to an unaffordable level. I do actually really like the new card effects (x1.6 Equip Chance might actually be usable earlygame), but really miss the combo capabilities of before. I know this was said for the last Hordes update as well, but instead of slowing my progression I'm literally stuck. Grinding heirlooms for now until the next update. Please allow up to 10 equipment or something, as this is also SUPER nerfing the corruption reduction equipments.
In terms of the farm changes, I agree with each and every one of them except the biggest: linear scaling. This is a crazy nerf to exp gain's usefulness, and reduces crop gain rate greatly. Late game I believe I can actually get a lot more gold out of the changes from rare drop gold, so that's nice, but other than that this was also a nerf.
Overall, my thought on this update: It's a fun balancing BUFF for anyone under GL 600-700 or so, otherwise it is a limiting nerf for Hordes but still a fun albeit slightly weaker farm.
Again, thank you so much for your continued work, Tendsty. I'm REALLY excited for the next update. Gallery expansion and Patched Ember/Mastery farming is super exciting. Keep up the amazing work!