Talk:Merlin/@comment-82.181.129.29-20170520134721/@comment-25353630-20170521224021

I don't think they can remove him nor nerf him because this is not a PvP game so you're out of luck here.

Tho I agree with what you mean. Merlin is just the answer to almost anything in this game. Dude got everything you wish for in a support servant. Need HP? No problem! Need NP? No problem! Need Stars? No problem! Need attack up? No problem! Need Buster up? No problem! Need crit up? No problem! Need to defend all your party members for an AoE NP? No problem!

This guy has buster/arts/quick in one single servant, while he's buster centered, you can still put him in an arts team and he'll do a great job. Waver was broken back then but the dude never healed nor gave you stars. His kit was def+atk up with crit and NP def down. That's it. It's mind blowing that they decided to nerf jeanne back when she got introduced because they might have feared the ability to spam her NP for Unlimited Inv Works but now seeing merlin, I pretty much think they just don't like her or think the way she is right now is fine, which is laughable at best.

This game doesn't require Merlin to be in all quest but if a newbie had to choose between jeanne or merlin, I'm pretty confident jeanne will not be the one they will take with them in a hard quest due to the fact that she has so many problems. You might say, why not just give her Vessel of the Saint, ''It just work 3 times. In a long fight, 3 turns is non existent.''

Overall, Merlin broke the balance, even more than waver, and it's kinda hurting the play style a lot. In the guides of Youtube (most of the times), they will always bring a lot of bronze but you know who they pick for support? Merlin. I don't see a jeanne doing something, waver might be chosen if the quest requires you to fire a NP as soon as you start the quest. I'll say some Youtubers actually tries to use bronze/silver full time but if you ask a newbie what kinda suppor they bring to a hard quest, they will say merlin over any other caster 99 of the time.