Talk:Halloween 2017 Event/@comment-29027964-20171026023020/@comment-13.114.28.34-20171026081040

Except buster is powerful exactly because it has things like Merlin going for it, on top of Buster's innate property being + damage. At this point, NPs actually lag behind heavily buffed crit buster normals for damage. It's also fairly easy to make a quick support. +Quick and +Crit would allow insane snowballing. Merlin not being powerful due to card synergy is tripe: He isnt powerful JUST because of it, but +Crit combined with +Buster on the same skill for 3 turns, with buster ALREADY being powerful, largely made most other lineups irrelevant. The game is still reeling from this design choice, with break HP bars being done instead of Goetia's 1.5m HP chunks or the old 6m hp Ibarakis so that we cant obliterate them in a single turn and servants line Jeanne Alter and Musashi benefiting extremely heavily. Merlin was a genie let out of its bottle, and now every support pales in comparison to the sheer power of boosting the damage of command cards that already boost damage. Arts at least has a few things going for it. Quick is let down because it has a lot of individually good servants like Okita and Jack that simply dont have anything that can make them as game breaking as what Merlin does to Buster-Crit servants.