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I genuinely appreciate this kind of feedback (If not the targetted jab at the end, we did do a blog post about this a few days ago :( .) For what it's worth, I do agree that MoD is pretty miserable to use, and I think some of the suggestions people have been discussing are appropriate to address that. It may take us time to implement some of them, and they may not come with WGS, but I'll try to raise it to the team for discussion soon. The comment made on stream is my bad, I didn't know the price off of the top of my head but I had thought I did. It was an honest mistake, I can only apologise.
As far as competitiveness with Emberlight/Purging-bow, it is a shame that it doesn't outcompete them right now, but it's also an opportunity. A demon strong against melee/ranged might be the theme of a boss or another piece of content in the future! I know I'll be on the lookout for it as an opportunity because I absolutely love the aesthetic of demonbane spells and the purging staff.