For three years cRPG was balanced almost exclusively around EU battle mode. Since Tydeus and San took over, balance has more NA than EU flavour. Just get your own guys inside the system and you're good.
Ha, i hope you like NA flavor, cuz NA players dont, you can see this through the lack of players in...well pretty much every server. Everything but battle is pretty much dead. Why EU peoples with EU histories*, took something great and put it the hands of NA is beyond me ( *You lads actually fought medieval wars, while NA is a land notorious for shooting poor peoples. look at NA 1 right now, looks more like a shooting game then a medieval game )
Tydeus and his AGI biased team are running this mod into the ground, more often than not, this game is more frustrating than fun. Mistakes have been made, and its far too late to go back to better days. Maybe EU players dont want to balance things, maybe we are stuck with Tyd...Maybe Tydeus could balance the game around fun, instead of buffing himself and his friends / nerfing str / making it harder for others to get to the high lvls him and his "balancing" team are at. Digging deep into the maybe drawer.