After playing at 25ss all weekend, the 35ss felt insanely roomy. I can say, in regards of faction strength, I qualified for the sunday avatar tournament with the Neverborn, arcanists, outcasts, and very nearly with the guild and ressers. I think the factions are pretty well balanced at this point (arcanists will get a huge boost with Mei Feng) and the neverborn still have a few overpowered builds they can make but it's almost even. Almost every match from every faction was a challenge regardless of the faction I was playing and I don't think I finished lower than 6th in any of them.
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Marcus was almost always in one of the top three tables all weekend. In fact, one of the rounds, there were three Marcus' between the three of them. The most surprising for me was the number of competitive Raspy's.