There are also many bracers in game, and new ones that can be added to loot list.

Will be nice to see some secondary stats upgrades to make some stand out, like thorny bracer, bluestone, golden, etc

And what's the difference between negation and reduction? I think less 10% of damage received by paladins is more fair in their buff. So instead 20% of more life points, just 10% more life and 10% of damage reduction...

He probably intended so people take kill tasks to grow their skills. Instead of the broken system of afk, loggin and getting same reward as someone who is out actively killing monsters. Will be best to take "kill" tasks instead of randoms. It might work better to have people gaining skill as they gain levels and more power coming from levels than skills.

Random is if you want the chance to have a chance for an increased or decreased growth tasks.
Random will be more random now, for sure.

I like these numbers, because make more sense about a new fortification spell. If we think, more 20% of life points doesn't mean anything in high lvls, but a 10% percentual to help against all damage types is really good, but not OP to turn paladins in real blokers and they lost melee skill already, so this spell will be balanced.

Random does not mean best training every-time!

If you have cash you can cancel easily until you get most benefit from random.
This system is so active player benefit more off training than those who just turn in collect tasks.

No one said you HAVE to reset collect tasks, that is a choice you make.
You still have the option to do that and be lazy, just not for maximum benefit.
You are decent high level in Novus and it is a new server, this should not affect you much.

For sure we will improve them in next updates.