I had some issues with him during the playtest. Not for being OP or to complicated, but that in an effort to "smooth him out" he lost a lot of his interesting play style. I understand the change they made to eternal, but I like many people have griped about on these forums found that that effort to balance him had some profoundly stupid effects. I get that he needs to be balanced and his initial version was admittedly STUPID good, but the fact that one bad flip against The Hanged now meant he was permanently shut off and worthless was also stupid. Personally I felt it was worse then when the same thing happened to Bete Noir or Bad Juju because not only did he depend on the bury/heal mechanic to function, but he's also a master-centric crew and so shutting him off often meant an immediate loss. I know that if you kill said hanged or avoided him you could stop it, but just seemed to random to fall apart that suddenly. I'm hoping in the revamp they find a way to keep his unique play style with out making him way to good or way to worthless; though I'm not getting my hopes up. Such is the hazard of making a master as fundamentally different as Levi.
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And I do hope that this lesson holds true for Hamlin, who I fear being either broken or awful for similar reasons. Just have to wait and see, no sense worrying about it now.
