Except that a lot of us that haven't dropped tons of money on the game, and despite years of playing don't have the insane god level gear and all to make some of this work - are getting screwed across the board too, especially when 'war of attrition' was basically our only recourse. I couldn't even make the damn Hydra team, and using the budget version of Wixwell where I HAVE to have High Khatun in and as speed lead just to manage anywhere from 115m to 150m per key (depending on boss, affinity, and which of the two accounts). And basically the gear all but Geomancer has is just whatever can get them to speed it's otherwise junk, Geo is probablly one of my better geared champs in terms of overall stats. And so far - all the CC testing is showing a decent shot at me being screwed in CB - and understand I'm sort of the 'big fish' in my small clan when it comes to CB where I toss a key at UNM - but come in to clean up NM or lower with a key or two depending so that the rest of my clan can get double chests and so maybe advance a little more. So even if you aren't screwing them directly cause none of them have Wixwell teams setup, you are by making it that I can't just use the 1 key team I finally made thanks to that fusion since didn't get Brogni - thanks to you people making fusions unnessecarily more difficult, or anythign else to make the more insane teams. And I actually spent money on that fusion for a change, even if not much, to make sure I got it to FINALLY not have to waste however long my damn Helicath team took every time and instead actually use auto battle and do other things in game. Frankly the level of anger I'm at is 'I wish I had a solid case for legal action on basically bait and switch'. Especially cause I can't use my Helicath team anymore - things were changed so I'd have to rebuild it, from scratch, and likely screw up a bunch of other teams I've made since.
And then there's the other changes to hydra like the 2 turn devouring and all. It's not often - but using a team that uses champs like helicath - I do occasionally last that long, and have managed 15-20 million damage when I do, if geomancer lands his burn to help them get out before their even eaten because I do not have champs or gear to have a super high damage team - even against the normal starter level hydra. And that and some of the other changes - now absolutely screw what I damn well could do against it in those cases where I'm not gonna be able to last cause I can't do massive damage like that as it is - let alone now having to double it but oh wait now a head can potentially take 0 damage after eating the damn champ.
I'm going to be brutally blunt - this entire freaking farce, this overcomplicated, short-sighted BS, is EXACTLY the kind of thing I was taught NOT to do in GAME AND SIMULATION DESIGN 101. The problem is billions of damage in Hydra because of Hydra clash - there's what, one champion that's the issue, maybe two - and it's an issue with at least one of them you had to solve before I believe and the solution was - oh right - CAP THAT CHAMPIONS DAMAGE BASED ON SHIELDS. And if Trunda has her own issues in terms of damage dealt - FIX THOSE. But don't screw around with all the rest because 'oh all these 1% players are doing billions of damage by lasting a long time' where A: some of the rest of us on the lower end are using lasting a long time to do enough to get stuff from Hydra but not even enough on normal to get any reward for Clash and more importantly B: CHANGES THAT SCREW UP OUT ABILITY TO ACTUALLY DO AND SUCCEED IN OTHER CONTENT YOU AREN'T EVEN TRYING TO NERF.
The nonsense with fusions and a bunch of your other missteps the last few years is why I basically never spend money on this game - with this change, I won't spend a dime again, ever, on it, and frankly - if your going to make the same stupid mistakes the World of Warships dev team made - a game where I invested far more money, and time both as a player and as a Alpha, Beta, and Volunteer tester - then I have no problem bailing on this game and telling everyone I can to stay the hell away from it.