Return of Reckoning

Definitive YES for all changes promoting better experience for new players. Vets are addicted anyway so they will stay here regardless, but new players are hitting hard wall after leaving T1 and quitting shortly after.

Why there is no group tournaments from time to time? There is even whole custom ...

Making premade only would kill scenarios in the same manner as it killed ranked. However current state is just simply bad experience. Mixed realm scenarios could be a small step to increase overall population of the lobby but it is still far from enough people to make proper bracketing system.

One ...

Before queueing for scenarios I am always checking killboard for few last matches. Avoiding times when steam rolling premades are ongoing saves a lot of time and frustration. Being farmed with zero gain is a pure masochistic pleasure which I am not into.

Most of the players here are long time addicted vets with full bis and vast knowledge of the game. I don't get this policy of preventing new players to catch up relatively fast instead of 1-2 months of being punch bags. I guess player retention caused by power level gap is quite significant. If LV ...

The most beautiful instance of this game is finnaly here! Great nostalgia moment.
However I am not quite sure if it will be as popular as the other ones which are already implemented. It requires even decently geared party to spend +3h to complete full run.

Holy crap, the amount of grind required to get these rings is sick. I missed this event year ago thinking I will catch up this time, but hell no! This is only for real hardcore and unemployed guys.

Magus/engi nerfs sounds harsh. Are they any good now or just trash?

I would like to suggest solution with in my opinion shouldn't be hard to implement. One tiny element to increase importance of periodic city struggle in a form world buff for victorious side.
Let's say +5-10% renown and increased crest drop chance for a duration of days equal to the number of city ...

Competition accelerates the progress. Good, good!

I have assumption that OP may be slightly driven by recent WH Interbellum podcast. Competition is always nice.