Talk:Merlin/@comment-4036433-20180415085233/@comment-28209103-20180526062958

I thought it's because Nasu pushing the dev to make Memerlin OP? I get it from the beginning that Hero Creation is totally his role as Saber guide but other than that it's Nasu who pushed the dev to make him super OP in Babylon,

If that interview is true then probably the dev trying to gloss over the problem by saying that everything is "Just as planned", meanwhile behind the curtain they wrecked the shit out of their brain trying to make the content harder for veteran player without severely disadvantaging newer or F2P player, because JAlter + Merlin + Waver wreck everything in one, or 2 turns no matter how high the HP is.

However increasing the HP bar is non-ideal because if they set enemy hp higher than Trinity OTK reach it also means that it's even further above every other servant that are not part of Trinity therefore it could end up becoming powercreep fest with newer servant trying to adapt to the higher standard set by Trinity and older servant will become obsolete, just like certain other mobage out there.. Thus the Dev implement the multiple HP bar,, now you can no longer OTK boss, you can introduce multilayered gimmick to keep the difficulty high, and older servant will still be playable without risk of being powercreeped.

Merlin reputation actually started from around January with the re-run of Dantes hard difficulty quest, notably the boss rush where people used double merlin to "cheat" their way to victory, after that another boss rush during 2017 valentine, on the contary he doesn't get much spotlight in Shinjuku, he's only occasionally useful to CQ on event in between but most of them are just re-run. On recent CQ quest the presence of Merlin seems to absent completely from the so called "top-clearing team"

he's super OP based on pre-EoR difficulty as proved by how he easily curbstomp 2016 Nero-Fest but he's hardly tad OP as seen by he hardly used on 2017 Nero-fest.. He is still a viable tech servant but not to the point that you can solve everything with him,, at least not anymore.

Personally I think this is a good direction, I don't wanna see old servant become obselete because I actually care about those guys. the fact that Merlin presence doesn't completely overtake old support role like Waver, Tamamo or even Hans is a huge point in my book. You really don't wanna play a game that told you to keep bite the new shiny stronger servant every expansion or otherwise bust in like 2 or 3 update..