I enjoy Spiral Knights since its a simple concept, yet great multi player game.
However, i cant help to ask myself what the Devs are thinking. Seeing the way the entire system is made up, its doubtless that nobody ever wanted to spend more money on this project than its necessary.

Registering on the forums is the very definition of pain train:
- Steam registration is not allowed
- Non steam registration requires verification (which is not really an issue, but:)
- Verification mails are sent from outside of our solar system, taking up to a hour to travel
- The site itself cant update once the account has been verified, logging in, out, closing browser, nothing helps, the system wont see the verification
- In this state if you try to post something it says you need to verify your account, but if you want to verify it, you cant cause it says that its already verified.
- You need to manually empty the cache and cookies section of the browser to be able to get it going at all.

Being through this created for me the necessary atmosphere to call everything and everyone **** in here. However, lets just skip on that.
All im going to say that this is a great way to create negative reputation for your company. Third class, no name, free forum scripts out there feature 20 times the speed and a tenth of the frustration yours did till this point. I suggest you use those if you cant get your act together on your own.
Now then.
On a different note, the very same issues: In game.

Pvp is completely unplayable at times with lagg that suggests at least two planets distance. (No, its not my provider) You have to lead shot and lead hit opponents, and even then you get extremely funny desynchronization and utterly [goofy] situations where one of you cant hit the other because of the lagg.
Since im using Jalovec (slow sword) im usually on the recieving end of this stick and i have about had it.
Slow swords reset their animations if you get hit for reasons unknown to me.
I mean, its pretty much a good balancing move to reset the charge on bombs, but the fact that i cant hit anyone in pvp just because i use a slow sword is literally ****ed up. I cant time the rhytm either cause i have no idea who is lagging compared to who, so the whole situation for me is about throwing bombs and blocking through the entire of the game.

On terms of damage, medium and quick swords that deal classes lower damage than slow ones, kill shields and players quicker than all out dmg slow swords, just because everything is set on normal defense reduction.
This is complete and utter bull crap in my opinion.
Forcing your players to maintain two sets of weapons and armor (pvp and pve) wont work out.
Not in spiral knights.
The way your energy and upgrade system works one has to spend surrealistic and utterly pointless amounts of money to get two sets together.
Getting a single piece of equipment is 2*-50 3*-200 4*-400 5*800 --> 1450 energy
There are 4 to 5 basic equipment pieces so getting a complete set to tier 5 costs AT LEAST 5800 energy. If you upp a bomb or a gun aside of your sword then its over 7000 energy, so i personally REFUSE to pay out 14000 energy just to be able to participate in pvp successfully. I rather stop playing completely, and i think im not alone with this.

Please consider:
- Switching your ****ty dial up connection to something that can handle the load of 100-200 players.
- rebalancing pvp damage types
- animation reset issues

Thank you for your time and patience.