It is depressing. The fear of losing something that you know will only make yourself competitive at best, hangs over us all.
But it will be Sorc players that pay for it in your stead, as it happens every time. So I wouldn't worry about it. Others will suffer more for you.

It’s already the case for the other HA set from the trial (Vrol’s command). This would honestly make me hate running RoJo far less than I do.

I dunno about you all, but all the back and forth among PvPers really is starting to make me depressed about losing things like Class Masteries or other fun things for werewolf that finally brings it into viability for group content in PvE, and it feels like almost nobody cares about that anymore. All the discussion is about stupid friggen PvP, god I hate that mode, I'm so tired of losing build after build after build to it for literally years. Builds that weren't even over-preforming but allowed me to stick to a character theme while still being useful. It's a balancing act that I have worked on for literally years, and it always feel like an uphill battle with this stuff.

This werewolf refresh is one of the best things I've seen for me personally to come to ESO, and I am honestly so excited and happy for it. But I'm also falling into a lull of feeling like it's going to get gutted and destroyed, due to the fact it's a one-bar build and a lot of people hold some hidden hatred and elitism for it, whether because of what it is (stupid furry playstyle, stupid 1bar build, other similar reasons).

Even if it remains good in PvE, we're even seeing people wanting to remove Major Courage from it and stuff. And I'm just like... why? Why can't werewolf finally be good and accepted in endgame PvE ONCE IN IT'S ENTIRE LIFE OF EXISTING SINCE THE GAME RELEASED?!

Every single class, even Necromancer, has had it's time where it didn't suck in these fronts, including when Vampire was meta literally everywhere, god that was horrible too. Werewolf literally never has had this kind of moment. It just had a short period where it dominated in PvP battlegrounds and stuff, but I couldn't care less. That means nothing to me, and this endless back and forth is making me deeply resent PvP and it's community with every passing suggestion of removing Class Masteries, or whatever.

I'm just sad, really sad. This post will probably get torn apart by PvPers but I had to say something. I've been playing this game for nine years on and off, and have never felt more excited, yet more depressed over an upcoming update, or how the devs might handle it.

I know nobody cares about the mid tier players, the players who don't totally suck, but they don't just mindlessly run the meta and deal 120K DPS with a single button or whatever the current claim is now, I don't even know anymore. Nobody cares about the people who want to do vet dungeons and stuff and play ACTUAL CHARACTERS when they do it. No, it's just numbers, characters don't matter, build theme doesn't matter, but it matters to me. It will always matter to me, and I'm tired of being silenced over mindless and endless number crunching that can't even be balanced between two entirely different modes and playstyles. No, let's just rip out all build creativity so that all that remains is the acceptable meta that doesn't offend too many people, because apparently werewolf just pisses people off far too much in both PvP and PvE.

New Werewolf is good, I Like it. BUT I do have some concerns.
The model is pretty neat, kinda goofy looking, But it has charm. Wish the arms were a bit bigger, so they don't look like spikey pool noodles.
I know we need a way to discern in PvP which morph of the wolf I am fighting, But I would like to be able to toggle the tattoos. Its already pretty clear that I am fighting a pack leader because He has pet wolves helping and when I am fighting a berserker because he has no pets and Im bleeding alot. Red eyes must stay on berserker though. love glowy red eyes.

Balance wise, I am Quite concerned. NOTE This is through a PvP lens.
Werewolf has ZERO sustain issues. Absolutely none. You dont need to even bother building for sustain AT ALL. This is a sharp contrast from the update 49 werewolf where a huge part of the challenge is resource management. You have to actively build around and think about sustain on werewolf, where as now, with the refresh, Its not even a build consideration. In a PvP encounter, You are rarely, if ever going to stamina check a werewolf, and be able to pressure it out of resources, to a point of failure in order to secure a kill.
This is a massive problem for balance, as this allows werewolf players to just spam skills to no end, removing the need to plan out a skill rotation and pace the skills in order to conserve resources. You can just block cast every skill, apart from the fear, for easy damage mitigation, And if you somehow get low on stamina, Just spam the heal until your stamina is back to full.
Sustain is one of the 3 core pillars that make up a successful build in a PvP environment. It is also the most important. overly inflating sustain to a point where its not even a consideration on a build, strongly influences the other 2 core pillars, damage and survivability. With no worry of sustain, You can constantly keep a steady damage output rolling, And for survivability, well you can block cast and heal with no worry of that ever falling off.

and in the rare situation "Oh I am out of magic for my main heal? Ok ill just roll dodge spam until I get more magic back or my potion is ready."
Did you guys know that the dodge fatigue cap is 20? I did not know there was a dodge fatigue cap of 20. I have now learned that there is a Dodge fatigue cap of 20, and from there dodge does not increase in cost anymore.

Not needing to consider sustain on a werewolf, as I said, inadvertently INFLATES damage output, and survivability.
Survivability on werewolf is easy too. Your primary Spammable is a Huge heal, allowing you to just continually press your offense, while staying safe. You also have access to bloodclaws, which if you hit more than 3 enemies with it, Might as well grant you immortality. The big magic heal on werewolf restores missing stamina alongside its heal, allowing you to keep up your already overly sustainable offense.
You have the ability constantly hold block and block cast your offensive skills for free mitigation and, in rougher scenarios, spam roll dodge with almost no penalty. The only weakness a werewolf has is properly lined up burst combo, which they can still just block anyways. Pressure and DOT builds don't even phase werewolf because of the passive healing that werewolf has, and again, you are not stamina checking a werewolf, because sustain is too plentiful. If sustain was still a bit tricky on werewolf, The whole of werewolf as it sits on the PTS, would be in a Good spot. But its too easy to sustain on werewolf.

My suggestion - All skills on werewolf, apart form the magic heal, gain ramping cost for around 10 seconds. keep the costs as they are with the PTS werewolf, relatively low, or even lower and make the ramping cost 33% like with roll dodge and Streak, PER INDIVIDUAL skill, exclude Claw fury, since that's a channel. Make the werewolf heavy attack remove all stacks of ramping cost, while still restoring the extra stamina, and then BOOM! now you have a more calculated skill rotation with less incentive to spam skills for maximum effect! You could also tack onto that heavy attack weapon and spell damage per fatigue stack removed, to give an ever bigger burst to your damage, because werewolf really does not have any surprise damage for burst, and catching out lacking opponents.
This would also make the rampage mode of werewolf More impactful as well, as you can keep the no cost for skills with that, and it would make the rampage mode much more rewarding to build up to.

And last concern is with the Sniffer mode of werewolf. We cant have sneaky werewolfs, so we get a stealth detect on crouch which makes sense for a werewolf having the ability to sniff out invisible opponents, HOWEVER, Again, Balance. A detect potion every 3 seconds is broken.
Sentry, the set has a 30 second cooldown to allow for some window of counterplay, and a detect potion goes on cooldown for roughly the same amount of time( 45 seconds -11 or so seconds).
Stealth detection is THE hard counter for stealthy playstyles. That's also why there is a cooldown.
For those 10 or so seconds when stealth detection is active, its becomes a game of hide and seek plus ice tag. The stealthy boi is completely at the mercy of the stealth detector, until that timer runs out.
With werewolf, there is NO down time. There is a stamina cost for activating the sniffer mode, but as we discussed, werewolf has no sustain issues, so you can spam this to take away ANY leverage that a stealthy boi might have. You also have the gapclose on werewolf which allows you to jump directly on the stealthy boi when you see him.
Stealth is some builds primary form of damage mitigation. that's why there is a cooldown on the sentry set and with detection potions because stealth detection is a FULL counter to a stealth build. Giving a stealth build those 30 seconds of breathing room gives stealth builds a chance to regain leverage, and re assess a fight before making the decision of weather to either re-engage or dis-engage, based off of the scenario. This leads to the fun fights of hide and seek and freeze tag that make pvp encounters exciting.
Werewolf just does away with this completely. Its a one sided encounter where every time the werewolf wins. That is bad for balance and just not fun.

Solution Add a cooldown of around 30 seconds to the stealth detection portion of the sniffer mode, or heavily reduce the radius of detection.