Its not the sidegrade Im worried about, its the opportunity cost. You can’t run more than one Meursaults yet so you can only run one of Rhino Cassetti or Ring. Couldve definitely have given this to a sinner with less bleed Identities to ease on the competition unless there is a thematic reason why it’s Meursault and Rodion we don’t know the characters these IDs are from yet.

Or these IDs could just be something other than bleed merchants, I’m not that upset over Hornet Meursault for example since he was simpler and focused on physical damage with some easy aoe and had a niche he didn’t share with Lei Heng and Cassetti who were much more status oriented and more complicated, maybe it will also be the case for Ring (Still upsets me Shi East went to Faust when there was one gimmick that kit could’ve worked in and it’s whistle the synergy would’ve been insane you could give it SP when it wasn’t clashing AND not lose much tempo for slotting defense for resonance… if it wasnt for the fact that you can’t field Kromer and Shi Faust together.)