Talk:Alter Ego/@comment-10233699-20170428234248

I'm on the fence about this class. I feel servants in this class (Alter Ego) are prone to be niche servants due to significantly varrying class vs class effectiveness (i.e. an uncontrolled variable that can be compensated for by the player). This goes doubly so for Alter Ego servants who fill a more offensive/aggressive role (i.e. non-supportive). However, Alter-Ego servants have the potential to be the perfect answer for certain multi-class battles (such as ones vs rider, caster, assassin). For now, they don't appear to have anything that deals extra damage to them (which is nice). Also, they seem to do neutral damage to Rulers which could be interesting.

On a balancing note--- Certain pillars took extra damage from the four horsemen classes (Assassin, Rider, Caster, Beserker), and less from the three knight classes (Saber, Lancer, Archer). However, there has yet to be a boss (to my knowledge) that possesses the reverse class effectiveness of the pillars (aforementioned). Naturally, this gives the classes of the four horsemen an edge over those of the three knights. The Alter-Ego class smooths over that edge by introducing a class which possesses the reverse effectiveness in respect to the pillars (i.e. Strong vs Horsemen, Weak vs Knights).

They also, introduced the moon cancer class which does well to answer the strength of the Avengers while giving the Ruler class something to finally punish (Personally, I felt Rulers were more balanced before (they just didn't have too many "really good" servants in that class, so I guess it seemed like they needed a buff). Overall though, these new classes wont effect gameplay too much -- unless they start spamming them (e.g. implementing them in dailies). Considering how they handled the other "extra" classes (i.e. Avengers, and Rulers), we can expect the new classes to only pop-up in events here and there.