All I want is the ability to skip S1.
Being forced to play through it is the reason I absolutely HATE making a new character. The most I do it maybe once per year; it's so awful.
If we could start at S2 like we used to be able to and skip S1, I'd have every character at 90. As it is, I'm missing half the classes, and really do want to play them, but cannot tolerate the insane time wasting grind S1 is.
Both the update preview and the patch notes didn't mention anything about rank 8-9 scrolls no longer destroying equipment on failure.