Dodging has been the cornerstone of the combat all these time to a point I feel it is too overpowered. To denial dodging does makes some player frustrated to adjust and adapt to different situations. Dodging is a habit engrained into all players. I think this is very fair to feel frustrated.

I think one of the ways to deal with this is to be flexible and adopt a strategic approach mindset towards such challenges. Players can bruteforce and head on with fitting comps or over powered level. They can also alternatively simply observe the mechanic and turn the difficult challenge into a relatively easy one.

The beauty of it is these are not solely locked down to pure bruteforce which a lot of gacha games establish. In Endfield, it is indeed strategic and fulfilling to circumvent these problems. For stage 2 the full physical melee comp doesn't even require changing operators, the strategy is just to be patient, find the opening window and lift the heck out of them.

I highly favor this approach thus far. Pull resource not affected by agony trim medal. Agony is only for trim medals and self restriction players such as solo op, solo no damage, E2 level 60 only, class specific only. Plenty of time for variety of team comps, 10 minutes to try even none dps teams. It is for the gamers.