Talk:Anastasia Lostbelt Release/@comment-31574368-20180329134206/@comment-30155239-20180330051318

@TimeBlitz I found your technical analysis on Quick support improvements to be very elucidating. From a technical standpoint, your recommendations on a Servant whose draw is improving the focus elements of Quick servants (ie. star drop rates, star absorption) per the player's discretion (perhaps through a skill that can target a particular servant to improve reliability as a consistent crit machine, maybe). Perhaps a skill that can even guarantee critical hits for one servant's quick attacks for a limited duration, as long as their crit chance is above 0%?

From a technical standpoint, you indicated Merlin caused a bit of an unexpected revolution from players managing to adapt his buster support strengths onto many other characters besides Artoria (Merlin may have even been added to assauge players' complaints about vanilla Artoria's damage output without having to do an update, if I offer my blind speculation). Sadly, while I do agree that a true dedicated quick support should never completely tip the balance of the game the way Merlin did (merely even up the metagame to make Quicks more viable), the developers are likely not going to be overly concerned if this theoretical servant does change tip metagame as long as the overall playerbase is pleased (but if a serious pvp community ever starts on F/GO, I fear things are going to get very messy). From a marketing standpoint, Merlin has been a huge success BECAUSE he is so infamous in terms of his advantages as a support unit, translating to significant online buzz raised by him as well as increasing profitability especially amongst players who "play to win" and so dive into a Merlin rate-up solely because they believe they'll steamroll the entire game if they can get him.

Honestly though, it would be nice if this theoretical Quick support could come soon. Anastasia may not be that servant, but we do need to bring back the glory days of the crit-specialist servants so that a QQQAB servant isn't deemed bad anymore.