It is. Her art has improved a lot imo. AFAIK she was having personal family issues at one point but that was a while ago.
Thanks for the clarification SSDiamond. Glad she's better if that's the case, her DA portfolio doesn't seem to reflect that. She's a talented artist indeed, I guess I'm just blind or too nostalgic.
From what I've heard Arcanist and Duelist are the best classes in the game.
Do we have a tier list for all the classes and their specializations?
You'd have to ask LoveHurts for that if he still plays the game, he's literally been trying all the classes over the past two years if my memory isn't playing tricks on me since they were introduced in 5.5. I suck real hard at fighting, the only thing I could tell is proficiency does nothing and Galv's plugin is basically better left disabled. Similarly, Yanfly's plugin is used in a very redundant manner for "mastery points". All three possible "difficulties" also are completely broken, so it's kind of hard to test it all.
I can at least confirm to Nait Sieve that personality still is there. Which is a good thing since that was one of the good additions that added to replayability.
Seeing as 9.0 is planned for late August at the very best, that's plenty time for fun and I don't mind it. Personally won't get hyped until I see actual CGs and I'm at 174 reproduceable (and fixable) bugs in Katrina's Lair alone, some of which have been there since 1.0, actually... That said, 8.0 is very barebones data-wise (compared to pre-5.5 versions, in fact, it's almost only fighting, and fighting itself seems to be considerably broken as well - the fact that it is almost entirely plugin-controlled makes it worse, as you need to be familiar with plugins to make it work, and if you have trouble with simple events, you are being quite bold) so a complete revamp (like 5.5 but worse) wouldn't be surprising.
Testing, reproducing and fixing isn't an easy task when you can't exactly read the developer's mind. Deka did say he wanted us to find and reproduce everything, but if that means playing scapegoat again... then yeah, nope.
Sorry for the negativity. As SSDiamond said, I would absolutely love being proven wrong because being right would be terribly depressing. There was passion in Domina once. Just make sure you know what you're doing this time Dekarous, because even brainwashed patrons have limits to gullible state if they're still somewhat human. Some people can and will be very unforgiving, but it'll be much worse if it's your main base... Only true masters of deceit can pull off this one because they have no shame and no soul left.
*incoherent rambling noises* (this is in case someone wants to quote the mess in this post, lol)