I'm fairly certain they want to make it annoying to play on purpose. I'm fully convinced they're just trying to steer people to buy brawler now. And if they need to work this hard to push brawler, then it'll probably end up releasing as a half baked mess, just like beorning was on release. Heck, half a decade later and beorning still only feels 75% finished compared to other classes
It’s going to be a complete waste to put all this effort into a new class that on paper seemingly doesn’t fit the LotR universe in any meaningful way. We have enough classes. Every class has 3 trees and about half of those trees are completely and utterly useless. I won’t be paying a cent for the brawler class just like I didn’t for the beorning. Until players start putting their money where there mouth is, SSG will continue to push out BS half baked, barely lore appropriate classes because it’s profitable. We as a player base need to financially incentivize them to focus on putting serious work into the classes that already exist instead of spending 2k LP or whatever it’s going to cost to play Brawler. Think about it, there are going to be a solid amount of idiot cash shop whales who will not want to level through the content so they’ll valar the new class for $70 just so they can try the shiny new thing. I get that it’s a smart business decision for them but how blatantly cash grabby can this game become before people say enough is enough.