Arcane Foci can no longer be created by a single spellweaver
So went on to test shard and confirmed my bad thoughts, this 'bug fix' makes it so you need caster + 5 people to get a level 5 focus, so 6 characters in all. So be ready when publish comes out looks like will need to recruit one more weaver than normal to get same level focus. Just created a focus with 2 weavers and got a level 1.
Also saw this note:
New Haven escorts no longer give Compassion points
Which wasn't happy about as my pally does compassion runs in New Haven (the prisoner escorts from brigands) since doesn't have ability to gate. I think if it is to be harder for those without gate, then more compassion should be awarded if don't go through a player made gate, just the normal moongates. Now back to having to have someone gate me to do compassion runs if I want to raise compassion on my pally.