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I reluctantly bought it only cause it was limited. If it wasn't limited I'd probably have waited for a better time. This item has a permanent effect on your in game inventory and thus should be a permanent item in the shop, that's really my only problem with it.
Here are the changes to FH to my knowledge. For starters they are nerfing failed berserk music to only last a few short seconds on mobs, this means that 2h erg FH that relied on the failed music no longer works. This was heavily used in things like Alban and Phantasm to AOE mobs with FH.
The next change causes all weapons to have a contribution to the knockdown gauge while in FH. From what I've seen this means that dual wielded swords will only get 6 hits before an enemy gets knocked down. This is very a much a nerf as currently you can an infinite amount of hits on enemies with dual wielded swords. Secondly, 2h swords can (with stacking some other buffs) get up to 5-6 hits before an enemy gets knocked down. This is actually a quasi-buff. It's better than no failed berserk music but not as good as failed berserk music. Overall some players will see this as a benefit as they can now final hit with a fanatic/divine sword without having to first fail music.
With this update giants also got a skill called "Final Strike" which is essentially human FH that breaks through passive defenses and also gains speed as it goes on. Anyway, humans are the weakest race in the game at the moment and have nothing going for them. They are basically 3x weaker in archer than elves and have nothing in their kit that isn't completely beaten by giants. The only high hitting DPS strats as a human are lance charge spam and SS->impale which are done better by giants and elves respectively. Humans have been reduced to brionac slaves where if you are trying to speed clear any content bring one for brio and stack something else.
I feel the sample size on the forums is too small. Also people with less investment in the game are less likely to use the forums and more likely to switch servers. I do however know a few players (like less than a hand count) that did move from Tarlach to Alexina.