So far the 6.1 experience is ok.
2 things I notice about the AI:
1) the Necromancers have some Siphon skill that seems to instant kill (if your close to them? or have a lot of threat?)
2) The spiders hit way too hard and with poisen, the invis spider attacks are fine.
*Before the Golems used to stun (full disable), and now they have Earthbind (half disable), technically this part is easier, because when your stunned, you can't shoot or move. But when your Earthbind, you can shoot but not move. So w/e I'm ok with this.
Levels:
The leveling process seems a bit weird, in the sense that, since we are all low level 50 or less, that we (the public) can only make as far as those Big Golems (need level counter) and then we all die. Total play time is roughly 10 minutes. Then we gotta save and remake game, rinse and repeat process until we get strong enough to beat those Golems. The process seems to be a bit annoying, but I guess this is what it will take to level up.
* You may want to add more skeleton levels to help noobs and lowbies to counteract this constant remaking of games every 10 mins.
Metacian Play Style:
Like I predicted and earlier stated, everyone is using Shotgun + Fireball or Icebolt, and yes some using Holy Shot. Of course those shots are always recommended to newbies who come to play. Some people are using high hp with blood shot which was nice to see.
If this play style is any indication of how late game (lvl 99) play style will be, well then, you guessed it, Tri-barrel + Divine
*Hoping that Zync's AOE damage adjustment would encourage different play styles.
Money Grind:
Personally I never had a problem with money gain, but many others do, so I guess a small boost to this would definitely help, which I believe Zync is already considering.
PS: I'm lvl 30, using Shotgun and Fireball with a good amount of power and essence (since all AOE shots use quite a bit of mana)
Overall: I think the game so far, is harder, by roughly 10%, in which I cannot fully comment on because I have never beaten this game nor am I lvl 99 in 6.1 yet.