My two cents about each stuff
Kalevala event
Yes. YES. Seasonal events are sooooo much better than challenge annoying events. No random rewards, no pro anxiety clocks and no need of item burning. Good rewards, good amount of time to complete and free avatars. Not mentioning free EHTs and being able to use them in its portal. So much better than ANOTHER tiring challenge event.
Challenge Festival 2
I’m kinda neutral. The more portal excluding season 1/2/3/4 heroes, the better. But only villains, circus and slayers? I was expecting Knights and/or gargoyles too - but not really complaining. Those events have miserable differences between each other and all 3 are super boring so I think they will do so much better merged. Only ONE epic hero and no rare from bards family keeps the streak of legendary Heroes spam, though.
Valhalla Costumes
Not needed, poorly planned, messed up (at least in beta). I’m not expecting anything from it. They’re just adding reasons to make you spend for dupes. They barely started the S2 costumes and are already making greedy, boring, barely changing original heroes skills costumes for S3 too.
Perks for s5 heroes in s5 map
It’s okay. Fair enough.
New Atlantis hero: Oceanus
Another overpowered hero like Tethys to make you pull a ton of dupes while chasing them. Greedy boring move part 82928389283882937. Atlantis and Valhalla are gem exclusive portals basically already so no doubt they will start to hide OP heroes behind them.
Master Trainer and stuff for beginners
Master Trainer are alright but if they’re as rare as trainer troops I won’t even bother to think about them. Almost never seen any trainer troop as loot. The stuff for beginners I don’t have any idea of what are them but probably you’ll have to pay for skipping first boring stages of the game
Another villain buff
The ONLY fair buff to villains until today. Their family bonus always were mediocre. I’m surprised they didn’t further buffed their skills again but they probably will when challenge event 2 is closer. Again, nothing we can really call a balance update. This game had none in a while - in exception of Kalø’s nerf - that was needed, but was clearly a bait and switch from Zynga because there’s no way a hero like that could exist.
2h mystic vision
The best part of everything for sure.
Grading:
Quality of life? Not really
Hero spam? Definitely
Roster space solution? No
Balance update? No
Just another day in e&p. Nothing much imo.