Update the game's performance to run with 64bit java and the well-known tweaks to java garbage collector to reduce stuttering. The game literally crashed every time for me when I ran it after a reinstall and charged my freaking 4* Tundrus on the lowest video settings, and stops crashing and even runs smooth when I apply the 64 bit java. This should just be the default and is 100% the single most important reason players quit the game to never come back and is easy to fix if it would just ship with those settings.

MSI is a big problem when it comes to armor balance because you can't really not play without MSI if you want to keep up with party members. They should make the somnambulist totems a rare drop from Sloombargos or something which would encourage people to play levels rather than farm FSC to open slime boxes. And its value needs to go down so people can realistically get them. Not way down like with darkfang shields though, but like grand solstice rings would probably be good. And perhaps nerf the somnambulist totems to only give +1 MSI when the player is below 20% hp? It fits into the sleep theme where you sleep until you take damage, you walk at your usual pace until you take enough damage (below X% hp) and realize you need to step it up (+1 MSI), and it helps to ensure parties have an easier time keeping up with each other.

Maybe adding monster damage bonus trinkets could be cool too. Something like high dmg bonus to gremlin for all weapons. That would allow to run different combinations of more defensive armor with these trinkets to help max out on damage for the level. Still inferior to using max dmg black kat with +2 MSI, but at least you could equip royal jelly set and still use dark retribution, phantamos and acheron in the same loadout with 2 high dmg vs slime trinkets.

Letting players help to create skins and new levels would be awesome.

Permanent trinket slots would be loved by a lot of people, I don't know if it could have some negative impact though. Advantage is definitely that players like to be able to max out and if you make it cost like 2-3 years worth of trinket slots for a permanent slot, you're still sinking the same amount of CE and faster than with monthly slots and a lot of veterans who normally play without trinkets would probably buy them as well, because something permanent feels less of a scam compared to stuff that expires.

Disable AT in Lockdown. Lockdown when you think about it is actually a pretty nice game mode with some strategy potential to it for guild vs guild. AT just makes it impossible to play seriously because it is impossible to dodge hits when the enemy uses AT. You can't make them miss their hits by moving erratically because it will lock onto you and hit you anyway. So it just turns it into a game where people suicide into each other. High stakes lockdown could be a fun gamemode. Instead of 200 cr entry fee it is 20k. Perhaps only as an option for GvG because it would probably be abused by toxic throwers in random lockdown. Embracing lockdown as a serious gamemode (= disable AT) allows for a lot of replayability for endgame SK players.

Turn AT off by default in the entire game. Aside from the fairness argument that goes for Lockdown (where AT is actually very powerful), there is a similar argument to be made for AT in PvE (where it is bad). Aiming your attacks in PvE is not hard and people are generally fast learners. But by having AT on by default, new players are tricked into thinking they actually need it. And it does more bad for them than it helps them, because you can't manipulate enemies to hit multiple at once with narrow swing weapons (like cutters, warmaster rocket hammer dash, flourish 2nd and 3rd hit) when AT locks dead on target for you. Not only that but AT will also make your weapon less predictable and pull you into traps. Overall players are weaker if they have AT on in PvE. AT is actually a noob-trap. And then you release a new level like grinchlin assault where there's loads of spike walls for AT to pull you into, loads of enemies from all sides to make AT unable to focus down 1 target, and next thing you know the forums are on fire with 'vanguards' asking for nerfs to the new 'punishing' difficulty. Turning AT off is better for new players because they won't be gimped by the game settings that they are reluctant to disable because it sounds very helpful and 'probably isn't safe to turn off for someone new like them'. Instead leave it as an option players can turn on if they feel like they need the help.

Add more Shadow Lair craftables, like a mixmaster, void weapons (celestial weapon reskins in pink+black theme). Maybe even turn pet reskins into expensive shadow lair craftables (e.g. snarby maskeraith for like 30 nightmare manes and 1 million crowns and gun puppy drakon for 30 schemer scraps and 1 million crowns). Each shadow lair material is the equivalent of like 3 hours of work in game (from farming the key cost, getting a team together at D18 all the way through completing the shadow lair). This would probably put their price well above 50k crowns each meaning a pet reskin would still cost at least 2.5 million crowns to someone who wants to have other players farm it for them. But this way players have something to work for rather than waiting for old promos to return after 5+ years.

I think this thread, if bandwagoned on hard enough, might get some sort of attention, but all of these super duper intensive, intricate suggestions are an udder waste of time.

Neutralizer, a 5 star, deals less damage than a three star should. This is due to around 5-6 faulty lines in the code.
We have literally emailed grey havens guides as to how to fix this. Again, the work is done, all that needs to be done is to follow a guide.
A guide to fix this has been sent 9 months ago, another more recently.

Nothing has been done. The fact that it took 2 days to test an auction house update that the community wanted reverted almost immediately speaks strongly as to how much dissonance is taking place here.

Aside from neut, there's another simple fix we are DYING FOR.

Tier four does exist, and it is unhealthy.
If you look into the code, enemies are coded to scale to the end of tier four (depth 40) in shadow lairs. Base health and base defense is LITERALLY DOUBLED. Enemy base damage is 1.52x stronger. And, the weight loot can scale up to is maxed at depth 30. Why is Gh okay with this?

Who knows.

If they were to give any word as to what they're even trying to do with this game we'd all love to hear it

We don't actually want what was promised all those years ago, like a finale to the game, or an infinite pve dungeon with global leaderboards and rewards based on rank. We want communication, and any sign of any sort of dedication. The game is a shell of what was envisioned for it and we don't care. Balance is shit, the community is small, the game lacks variety, but we don't care.

We want any reason to believe grey havens can manage this game better than the community could themselves.