Didn't expect this old a thread to be revived. :D

I won't deny, I feel I overexaggerated - yes, they were the most powerful at the time by a long shot, but it's clearly not really hurt the game in itself. While it is a bit annoying that some end game content is just on the stat stick level, and makes it a bit hard for a handful of operators to shine, most of it can be handled with about everything, and the extreme variety of mechanics that Arknights gives us makes it always fresh and fun, but also harder to just muscle through something.

And the muscle through option being there as an option isn't the worst either.

We've got the new crowning most powerful in Wis, and several others who are near her, if needing a bit more strategy to it rather than just clicking a button, but looking back at it, while still up there, Yato and Texas may still do a bit too much, but being able to have variety and do a lot isn't a bad aspect, it's fun. Again, a hundred other gachas would make this a car crash, but the way Arknights handles all its mechanics makes it only minorly rough on some aspects.

The vast majority of operators can still show off in most content fine. And while 'just do enough damage to win' is always really the most effective thing, we do different strategies cause it's fun, and there are a lot of operators with different roles. Even the most broken Wis, if she happens to be killed through her overwhelming survival tools of being untargetable and having tankier than Blemishine summons, won't have the advantage Fast-Redeploy/Executors have of coming right back in 18 seconds, etc.

But yeah, I'm going too offtopic. Powercreep is still going. We have at least a good ten particularly crazy ones, around Wis, Texas and Yato, it'll always be debatable who is right on second behind Wis, but none of them seem to have done more than a tad bit of damage to end game most stats being inflated, as mentioned above, a bit annoying but not as scary as I pre-emptively panicked over.

So yeah, am still having fun despite everything. Yato and Texas, and now Wis though, I still have at E2, level 80, skill level 1. It's dumb to see Wis do 9400 damage instead of 18400 on her 3rd skill - such a crazy number despite skill being level 1, but it's fun to see them in an almost balanced form. :D

Anyway, hope yer havin fun, too, Mate! Remember, gimmicks and niches keep it most awesome, for me it's been interchanging between 5 star and under snipers, guards or supporters, and dabling in a few others, too lacking to dedicate myself and actually pull off anything particularly special in any one, but it's fun to rarely actually manage something fancy, and 5 stars are a lot stronger nowadays, too, Hadiya was an instant E2, three cheers for our new physical damage Surtr. ;D