The sad truth is that TOS is already a lot longer in developement than RO was before going CB/OB.
The game is already in developement since 2009, and they developed a lot of things that were abandoned and/or forgotten/rebalanced this year, so it’s like 8 years of developement went straight to the trash bin.
This is pretty astonishing, since it was completely clear from the beginning that the flat damage&reduction system won’t work combined with a power creeping system like transcendence.
Also, unless completely reworked, the balance changes of several Classes were not enough to compete with other Classes since this game lost its survival component.
Nowadays the game is getting closer and closer to Ragnarok Online, which is a good thing, but also to be taken with a grain of salt since they could’ve done this in the beginning and saved a lot of drama&salt.
Let’s see what they will prepare for November and the G-Star, the current Class hype already died down a week ago after seeing the trailers full of nothingness. Unless IMC gets a hold on themselves and starts serious Class rebalancing, I doubt the dead Class situation will become any better but in fact worse within the next few weeks.
RIP Oracle, you will not be remembered by the developers after thrown into the trash bin together with TBL…