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Do you enjoy powercreep characters?

I personally find some of them and their refines to feel "cheap". Like, I personally only use Dauntless Lance on Nephenee because of the built-in Steady Posture. Otherwise, her refine feels lame and like it trivialises an already amazing character.

Then there's one of the newer characters, like Nina. She just feels an incredibly cheap version of Niles. She has bar better Atk- and Spd, even (aka what Niles was supposed to be good at). Trivialising a concept like building units into monsters just takes away a fundamental aspect of the game, for me. Maybe others prefer it this way.

Not a complaint on actual powercreep, by the way. Disclaimer.

Asked by NOOOOO PIZZAGUY 😭1 month ago

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I mean 2 of my favourite characters got powercreeped:
Hawkeye by Helbindi
Lyn by all the fast sword users
So I mean it leaves me a little salty but for the most part yeah I'm fine with powercreep characters. Hawkeye still has a chance because he can get a refine.

It shouldn't bother you about Lyn...there's this guy, Umbra, that has an amazing +10 Lyn. Brazen Atk/Spd, Wrath + Flashing Blade. Tears through a ton of stuff.

I think people erronously focus on "oh they'll never be better", when it's not the point. This is the very way people view tier lists, as "good character > terrible character", without realising how balanced the game is.

If your character can kill what it needs to, what does it matter if they're not overkilling by an extra 10 Dmg?

Helbindi and Hawkeye are bad, but the worst I'd say is Catria vs Sumia. -1 Atk for +5 speed, same boons/banes even.

Powercreep skills are one thing, but the whole powercreep BST bullcrap...

I don't really care about powercreep since I use the units I like

Read the disclaimer...

Neph aint powercreep though, normal gen 1 bst, and she was already fantastic without dauntless, dauntless just made her better by making her eat armors easier.

I never said Neph is powercreep, just that her refine is. And I actually mention since Day 1 how an amazing character she was, and it took a refine for people to realise this.

The powercreep has largely been to all the release day units. The devs don't seem too keen on buffing their actual stats so the gradual creep in stats has left them outclassed to an extent. Thankfully, refines have been added for many of them. While the new weapons and refine effects vary in utility, they give the units an opportunity to better keep up with later units, so I'm not all too upset about it. Take Odin, for example. I found it really hard to use him, even after Inheritance was introduced, and then we finally get a refine for him down the line and, while he may not be Tier 2 level good, he's viable now. Other good examples include Florina and Saber. If this trend continues, units like Niles and Oboro will get their chance to shine. At the very least, I can appreciate that they're not being ignored completely.

Depends. If I like the character then sure, but if i don't care about the character that has the powercreep then... Well, I try not to care.

The only unit that I've really complained about was Surtr, and I wasn't even complaining about him, I was complaining about the fact that IS released a weapon that deals a flat 20 damage for being near him.

Basically, like someone said above, I don't care about powercreep because there's not really a reason for me to care.

We'll there is no way that a gatcha game won't have any powercreep, the first powercreep came with Ayra after something like 8 months after the release of the game which was a bit too early, that's why it wasn't that good of a thing in my opinion, while the second powercreep came a year after the first which i can understand and i kinda expected it

The only thing bad about the powercreep characters is that they have higher BST so you have to use them in order to get high in the arena.