I have spent some time playing soulbeast. Tried both power and condi build. Power build is quite fun to play, but it has not much of use in PvP. You can pew pew from range, hoping that your team mates can tank long enough untill you pew pew the enemy a little more and kill them. The dmg while playing zerker amu aint really bad, but ofc suistaine is very low. Once someone get close you can't do much, either try to run away or die. Though, Deadaye can do this job much better I think. Condi build is garbage. Tried various builds and weapon setups but nothing was really working. The condi preassure is just too low. Dagger has no use in the current Scourge/Spellbreaker meta who destroys you at close range easily. Deadaye eats you freely from range as you lack mobility to chase him. Although I would personally love to use dagger, the design is really sloopy and doesn't fit to current meta. The sword feels still superior to dagger, with the evades and better mobility it offers there is no reason to use dagger over sword in any build be it power or condi. What I would like to see on dagger is for example nr2 skill (Double Arc) working like theif's sword nr2 (Infiltrator's Strike). In beastmode the beast skills are really great and I wouldn't change a thing. The other skills F1 and F2 feels on the other side very underwhelming when it comes to dmg. Considering I use them in full zerker build the skills are not even worth to spent the time using them. The new pets are mostly nice. Gazzele is obviously OP and needs some shave or rather it NEEDS a FIX. While in most cases the charge dmg is OK (up to 6k crits on squishy builds) time to time it does some ridiculous dmg like 15k and once I even manage to kill-finish a guy. He didn't even go to downstate but was instantly dead. All in all I don't see soulbeast replacing druid. Druid is superior and offers way more then soulbeast can.