Same here!

Maybe it's again under some DDoS attack?

The lag is so massive that EU servers are now almost unplayable :(

Take an axe and use shockwave on them :D

easter-egg :D

This idea is bad in terms of keeping new players in game. Whole point is to make them jealous of some more sophisticated weapons that other, more experienced players have. So this works as a kind of jealousy-driven competition. It's an animal-like behaviour, which we share with all primates.

If we will separate so-called noobs from others, they probably won't even notice that other weapons than axe exist in the game (if a lot of them are too lazy to enter the tutorial, even more are more lazy to enter the shop). They will just use dumb hitspam, and probably soon get bored with whole game.

Currently, when the newbie sees others wielding a hammer/sword/bow/wand, he will most likely get jealous ("omg, this weapon is so OP, I have to get this") and will get attached to the game. Of course, in some cases it will work in opposite way - "omg, there is a lot of pay-to-win noobs, I should leave this game", but I don't believe that these are a majority.

I'm not so sure about this, so it will be nice to get some information from several players who started their experience with wilds more recently (like a week or 2-4 weeks ago).

Invisibility for just 100 coins? Sounds like a good joke :D

Probably, this will be hard to do.

I mean that for each emblem, it will be reqiured to make a separate (!) set (!!!! :O) of spritesheets.

The current set for shield looks like this:

Yup, the whole set consists of 11 separate spritesheets! It is not so simple!

Of course, these sprites were generated in Blender (so it does not take as much time as drawing them pixel by pixel - actually, this is how tilesets are done, and that's why making tiles for mountains took me several long winter evenings). However, because there is a lot of ranks, it will probably take a lot of effort and time to make them.

I'm currently working on wall tiles, and once I will be done with them, I will try to design some cool map. I have something similar to your idea in my mind :)