I'm not sure how people feel about this as a whole - I haven't looked much up on it - but wanted to give my thoughts.
We need the old Jelly King fight to return. This Jelly King fight is just too easy. The other day I think we finished it in about 45 seconds, without any actual exaggeration. And we're not even that elite of players.
The old Jelly King battle was so much more interesting and fun, and you had to actually play good, use strategy, etc. This new one....just is pathetic. It shouldn't be this easy. Snarby should not be more difficult than the Jelly King.
That's how I feel. Given that it's easier to access via missions, making it harder won't decrease people from playing it because they only have to do 2 relatively high payout levels to get there.
I think the Jelly King is too newb friendly now, too. The Snarbolax is probably harder to solo.
I like the fact that they added phases to the Jelly King, but it seems like they reduced his overall HP. Adding polyps to the sides actually makes it even easier, since they drop hearts so often. They're also closed in, making them only a threat if you stand in one place for about 15 seconds. Being closed in also makes it very easy to completely avoid the Jelly King and just farm hearts.
I think it's the classic result of the community being derps. People go in teams of 4 with just enough gear to get into T2, and got slaughtered by him. So now they made him easy enough for a group of 4 fledglings with 2* gear able to beat him. Spiral Knights definitely isn't the only game this happens to.
~Sev