It took awhile but I'm glad to see someone brought up the population decrease. The merge was poorly executed and lead to many people leaving... and still is having ill consequences. Ymir is flooded with God Items and MvP cards, and yes, it has heavy influence upon 3rd class ballance.
In the past God items were the crowning achievement of a guild, now they are common equipment for some. The difference between damage those who have these items and those who do not are huge, and monopolies on these items tend to self perpetuate the problem, as those guilds attract numbers and have a major advantage in WoE. They can control the production on certain god item pieces at that point and force those in possession of other common pieces to sell for lack of use.
MvP wise, certain cards have ridiculous properties, such as GTB. They completely render 2 classes useless as killers in game. They provide too much ease to MvPing, as dispel becomes the only way for an MvP to even be reasonably dangerous to an MS Sura. They're very common on Ymir, and they're extremely problematic.
Edited by Nombus, 29 July 2011 - 07:42 AM.