Talk:Main Quest: S I N/@comment-25142131-20190326164131/@comment-39505307-20190608180209

Mashu was killed by DW to artificially increase the difficulty of the LB chapters. They nerfed her because she would've been too useful and broken the whole thing over her knees.

How much of an easier job would most bosses be if she could grant Invincibility + NP up to any party member, buffed their defenses up nearly constantly, drawn aggro with an optional invincibbility buff and wasn't weak to class specific damage?

DW just trying their best to challenge our ability to not use SQ again and if the difficulty was more natural (i.e don't give me only supports that have no advantage or have clear class disadvantage against current boss; don't force me to take a support that I cannot use and that, in fact, cripples me; don't make boss fights nearly entirely dependent puzzle mechanics only to have the RNG leave your enemies alive with 500 HP when they should be dead and force you to start over; don't force surprises in the middle of the fight, after I commit to a team that completely change the dynamic of a fight and force me to spend 20 minutes hitting air or leave the fight because I can't have possibly predicted this would happen etc)

Honestly the balance of the game is all over the place -- I see people on the page complaining about the Old Man Li fight and the Shi Huang Di fight but I breezed through those whereas the damned Royal Guard gauntlet that came before and the Xiang+Miaoyi combo wrecked me simply because I didn't have the Servants needed to break through - apparently nobody likes Amakusa on my friends list so I couldn't get him anywhere and had to make do with Kiara who is kinda fragile. I lost multiple times on both fights when I was just one turn away from winning because the opponents decided that they wanted to crit now and I should go fuck myself :(

Just saying --- this is all calculated, part of the F2P formula. Mind you I'm also bad at the game, but I never had this kinda issue before LB3. LB2 was relatively tame and I only had issues with the Valkyries that I recall and LB1 was a walk through the park. Then I went back and did Shimosa, since I skipped it before, and I wanted to hang myself with the charger cable.