The offline mode is an excellent addition. Thanks Inflexion!

I just moved my online save to offline mode, and it fixes my major problem with the game, which was the horrible transition times between realms. They were always excessive despite me having a good Internet connection and a upper mid-end computer.

• The initial load of your save used to take literally 5 minutes before I could interact with anything in my respite. Now it's down to 30 seconds or so.

• Opening a new realm with a portal could take 90 seconds. Now it's 10. That's the most drastic improvement so far.

• Returning to your respite through the map would take 2-3 minutes, sometimes more. That's down to roughly 30 seconds too.

Additionally, the game feels snappier, felling trees obviously doesn't cause lag and a major thing is that I can now pause the game if I need to leave the computer to do something else.

Having loooong waits for everything realm-related made the game feel massively clunky and immersion through having to sit in loading screens. I'm glad that's sorted and I can finally get excited about new content.