Thanks to the possibilities of buildcrafting in Clair obscur: Expedition 33, resourceful players have already achieved completely absurd damage figures. This is partly over today.
Thanks to Pictos, Skills and Lumina, Clair obscur players have plenty of opportunities to let off steam in build crafting. Resourceful players have (of course) backed out extreme combinations that even kill even the hardest bosses with one fell swoop, especially in the case of Maelle with their Stendhal skill. Although he reduces the defense of the young lady, it ensures hits in millions or even billion.
However, this will soon end, because even if no changes in balancing were previously planned, Sandfall Interactive has now decided to nerfen and Maelle again in normal claims.
The developers admit that they have built crap. The skill was rather undermined at the end of the development and therefore it was vigorously buffed it up in the last balancing run, but it was completely exaggerated.
Expeditioners, a quick note on Stendhal and balance changes:
We hadn’t planned to make any balance changes this early—just bug fixes, unless something clearly stood out.
Well, Stendhal did.
It was underwhelming for most of development, so in our final pre-release balance… pic.twitter.com/JwmC6luh3p
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But don't worry, sand fall will not get the big nerf club out, because tinkering is part of the game pleasure: “We still want you to break the game-and that will definitely continue-but Stendhal did a little too easy.”
It will certainly be excited to see which builds the players will work out in the next few days and weeks after the story has increasingly ended and approaching the endgame or already let off steam in it.
It remains to be seen for the time being, whether the update, which should initially appear on Steam and then on the other platforms on the other platforms, also contains other fixed ones until the patch notes are available.
