Will 2022 be better?

GreenhaloX

It will be better if we get more character slots (and flying mounts!)

Adremal

I'm more optimistic than not.

Blackwood as an area was horrible - both writing-wise and as far as zone design went, with 50% of it being literally empty. However the Deadlands DLC looks entirely different from what I've seen thus far - haven't completed it yet, but I'm enjoying questing again, as well as the zones themselves. Seems like they learned a lesson there.

Companions can be set up in a way that makes them actually useful, especially when using neglected alts. They aren't perfect and they could use some serious improvements, but still.

Curated drops work for me, no complaints there. As does the armory system. It could've been even more of a QoL upgrade, but I'll take any QoL upgrades, and being able to switch from X to Y at no cost? Yeah, I like it, despite the easily-overcome limitations.

Now to hope they'll fix vampires instead of nerfing something that's already broken, and Dark Convergence which despite the "nerf" which is arguably a buff in big-scale PvP, is... broken, just in the opposite acceptation of the term.

As to performance, I don't really encounter too many issues. Multithreading implementation was disastrous, I don't want my CPU to run over 90 °C - someone said that's working as intended an in a certain way it makes sense, except other titles use it as well and they don't cause nearly as much heat. Latency is still an issue, especially in Cyro, but I didn't expect the new servers thing to become functional / noticeable immediately, it'll likely take more months if not a year or so to feel the benefits.