Lords of the Fallen promises to split PvP and PvE balance after player upset, fix inventory woes, and add spells in update roadmap

pcgamer.com:

Lords of the Fallen's been getting a lot of patches. Depending on who you ask, it might be too many—while it's neat the crew at Hexworks are this responsive to feedback, some recent changes have left a sour taste in the community's mouth.

An update that dropped November 2 made some adjustments to certain boss weapons and spells that were «heavily relied on», like giving Boss Weapons 10 upgrade levels (as opposed to five) and tweaking their numbers. 

This left a lot of players with weaker stat-sticks they'd need to spend more resources on, just to gain a shadow of what they already had. Some spells, such as Pieta's Blessed Reflections, also had their mana costs adjusted for PvP reasons, leaving PvE players baffled as to the why.

Not two days later, a second post responded directly to that player feedback. A patch attempted to resupply shirked boss-weapon swingers with some extra resources to bring their weapons up to par. 

The devs then outlined plans to split future balance updates between PvP and PvE. This has been further cemented by a full roadmap, which promises spells, armour sets, questlines, New Game+ modifiers, and—at long last—a better inventory, all for free.

Good stuff in theory, and while there's been a speedy turnaround on those balance changes, it begs the question—why balance for PvP in the first place? I enjoyed Lords of the Fallen, but PvP is not, at least currently, the game's highlight.

The netcode wonkiness typical to mainline souls games is even more egregious here, and a lot of my invasion sessions ended in disconnects before I even set foot in my victim's world. That's not to say it isn't fun—I did get to hurl some poor sod off a ledge with an infernal hammer—but «Balance» isn't exactly what comes