Talk:Hans Christian Andersen/@comment-37459050-20190219211420

As much as I appreciate the insanely powerful strengthening quest DW gave Hans, I'm starting to worry more and more about the powercreeping that's been going on in the game. Even without the strengthening, Hans was a great support, but now he has a targetable 3-turn instinct with a 30% NP charge. That's absolutely broken! Not only are targetable NP charge skills very rare, but Hans' skill (along with Waver) is the only one that provides a targetable NP charge of that level at a 5-turn CD. Not to mention the 3-turn instinct. Have two Hans, which would give you 30 stars per turn passively, and you have basically 4 2030's working at the same time during those turns. Honestly, improving the stars per turn to 10 and removing the debuff should've been enough for Hans. Considering what the skill can do now, Hans' third skill is worth at least a 6-turn CD skill, probably a 7-turn CD skill. I think DW went too far with this one. Revelation wasn't a bad skill by any means, but it's sad that now it's just worse in every way compared to Hans.

And yes, I know there are far better examples of powercreeping than Hans. Lancer Li Shuwen is probably the worst example of it, and even with a strengthening quest of his own, he's just obsolete with the Assassin 5 star variant being straight up better in all aspects of gameplay.

Also, just because Merlin exists, doesn't mean that it's okay to have another OP support.