>Bad:
>
>5. Empowerment. This is bad for a couple reasons, but the most
>glaringly obvious seems to be the pigeonholing of priests into
>bad religions. Some good religions, but a lot of horrid ones.

Suggest a better system. Hint: Over ten years later, no one has yet. Just so we're 100% clear, pre-empowerment clerics were not a better system.

>3. Legacies. "Oh, let's just make the easiest class in the
>game to play even more powerful by giving them legacies.
>Shouldn't #### up the balance too hard."

Clearly, your biases are showing, or you weren't around to see the nearly nonexistent high level warrior population at the time legacies went in.

>2. No mage cabal other than Scion, and even then when Scion
>was crying out for a little relief from the pressure you added
>Outlander into the gank mix.

Nexus.