Kandarin is definitely getting a bit slept-on this season because of its lack of endgame. I think that the reality is that Kandarin is very solid for tasks and GETTING THROUGH the league, but the content it has ultimately is... plain? The Jagen comparison is pretty apt. Kandarin will get you through the league, it won't be flashy but it'll be solid and you won't have too many dead spots where you need to reach super far for a task. But come endgame it won't be providing you top-end BiS.

@@lunamaster123 You must be new around here. I use the generally accepted nomenclature of the community to discuss these things, but I am in NO WAY a proponent of the idea that LTC or "efficiency" is the only way to play. I merely used this concept because this is how units are traditionally rated, and I wanted to tackle the concept head-on. I talk about this concept in more detail in another video, but there's an idea of a "usability threshold" that a unit needs to exceed and stay above in order to participate. The vast, VAST majority of units are at or above that threshold at base, and only fall below if you do not touch them for a significant amount of time. Even units that traditionally are difficult or frustrating to use and see little long term payoff are largely capable of living above that usability bar. The rare exception is someone like FE12 Bantu, who is bad with little payoff in lower difficulties because of the changes in dragon mechanics without personal stat buffs to compensate from fe3 to fe12, but in higher difficulties becomes literally impossible to use outside of specifically cornering an archer, and even then he will never grow to not be 1-rounded by almost any enemy. This is a fault in the game's approach to difficulty, yes, but it creates a situation where the unit is effectively unusable, one of very, VERY few in the series.

@@quillarmike6947 Also a perfect example of how a systems change can act as a buff or nerf to certain characters. Some versions of FF6 iirc change how his skills work so that even if HE is still locked in charging the rest of your party isn't, which makes him far better despite not touching his numbers at all.

@@joeyjose727 One of the reasons I love Anna in Engage is because her personal Growths are actually strong enough to shape what she can do beyond whatever her class growths are, and the way they are seemingly mismatched with her starting class emphasizes that she should be treated differently.

@@seliphgaming8662 Hype hype!

@@naotoueda2838 FE6 is a game that features very strong, overpowered units, but does not *require* their use. Low tier runs of FE6 always end up looking very interesting.

I love Bartre personally, but I try to use Ward and Lot until I make it to Ainz or at least till they visit home.

@@XarpusAcid Fremmy needed something attractive, but I worry that getting both overkill bis ring AND necklace, far and away better than anything else existing, may have been overkill. That moment when raw stats wins out over anything else cool and unique.

Thermy's echo item really needed to be something much more universal. For example, it could've provided something like a mini-shadow buff, where your magic accuracy and str are buffed by 2x or something. As it is, it's only a very slight buff over a bis item on the weakest combat style, the elemental buff is basically useless as everything beyond slayer bosses has none.

@@hansgretl1787 I love so many things about the fundamental design philosophy of Monster Hunter. Took me awhile to get into it, but when I did it became one of my all time favorite series.

@@OrlandoAguirre222I'm trying something new, dipping my toes in. Hopefully it comes off well!

​@@MythrilZenithIt's cool to experiment. I think it's an alright video and all I want to add is that imbalance can create 2 beautiful things: Meme strats and challenge runs. Playing Wasteland 3 currently with only Melee. It is pretty bad when of the 6 slots in your squad only 4 of them can be custom made units. The other 2 are only for characters you find in the story, so for the beginning and middle of the game I'm stuck with folks with perks, skills, and stats for guns are now made to just use items to stay relevant. This has actually solved my hoarding problem in this game because every Molotov is now one of the few methods of damage my two story characters can do. Also the beginning is HELL with only Melee, as I am attempting this on max difficulty with Friendly Fire, Difficult skill checks, and Permadeath turned on. Melee isn't bad per say, but rather just not as good as having a balanced team or using elemental ranged damage. Since this game uses action points, all melee users basically can't do anything other than move up for the first turn. But man has it been fun and interesting to play Wasteland 3 this way. I've done themed challenge runs before like Engage with my Tough Guy Run of only having classes that can punch or wield Axes, with times banned so no High Priest. That run is still incomplete but it's been a little busy for me. Still, first time I kept Jean as a Martial Master and I LOVE the animations it comes with. Made Anna one of the best units with a Radiant Bow forged and I currently have a Great Knight Vander using Ike and a forged Hurricane axe to deal with Wyverns. He is surprisingly tanky enough because of his high HP and the Star Sphere I gave him. This is also the second playthrough of Engage I did so I decided to start using DLC. I wonder if I could be at it with the Tough Guy Run without DLC, but such challenges are more so for fun. Just remembering all my meme runs I did with 3 Houses. Only reason I played it 7 times honestly, 8 if including the DLC side story. Yeesh, kinda blathered on there. Uh, basically imbalance can make some fun happen if the player is willing. Hope that much got through.