Arknights has a HUGE problem... 

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That is the problem with the creative direction of Arknights now. They release stronger and stronger dps units that the enemies also needed to bloat their stats. It is really much better if HG make the support ops overpowered like Gladiia and Eyja alter. The drawback is the extra slot and deployment but their mere presence just contributes so much to the clear.

"All the good supporters are year 1" Stainless isn't a year 1 operator tho

Surely we won't get Shu soon who is a very good support character right? *Clueless*, but yeah we are getting way more dps then support characters and it's a bit sad.

My man Gnosis not even mentioned..

maybe part of the issue is that the best way to support a teammate is to cover their weaknesses, and that was the original ethos of arknights you want to guard the objective so you deploy a defender, but they can't damage the mobs fast enough, so you support them not with a supporter, but with a fast damage dealer like a guard. uh oh, a hoard of them are coming, you don't have enough block for this, deploy someone who can do aoe damage! you are going to need to deploy so many more units but you don't have enough credit generation, deploy a vanguard. here comes a big tanky boss, deploy a caster to ignore that high defense and deal arts damage in stead. Make sure you keep your frontline stable with a healer! Dammit, there are flying guys now too! bust out the Glaucous- sorry, the glock from Jessica! Why would you use a supporter to support your team when you are already supporting them through specialized forms of damage? As such, supporters are kinda left in this awkward spot where they have to cover for one of the previously mentioned roles so you aren't missing out on a deployment slot, but they can't be stronger than opperators of equal rarity in the category they are copying. If Roberta could do everything a guard or defender could do, why would you bring a guard or defender? When summoning, are you going to go after someone who can guard and defend stupendously, or are you going to go for someone who helps those guards or defenders do that. The appeal is lacking, especially for newer players- see every newbie who got Angelina and dumped her in the trash because they have no strong units to have Angie support.

I play mostly with welfares, did you know that the best slower for welfares is Orchid (or Scene with module LUL)? But hey, we have 3 welfare arts defenders (out of 4 in the game), some niche wants some of that? xD

There's a lot of ops now... just choose your poison and enjoy

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Reed alter arts fragility stack with saria s3 no? They both are different debuffs afaik

For supports to matter, you'd have to make them strong enough to make up for not using another dps operator. That comes with inflexibility, as they'd have to support a specific DPS operator or debuff a certain lane, while a DPS character could do things on his own before/after redeployment. The mayor exception is Skadi Alter S2, as she buffs offense, defense and heals and can extend her range via the summon. It's pretty obvious why you can't have another operator functioning like her unless you disable stacking. Same goes for Debuffs, which are actually completely broken, yet simply not used widely unless Kyo uses them in a guide for a very hard event. Shamare's S2 M3 is -50% Atk and Def on something you can place on any tile that can be deployed on. There's simply no headroom for improvement, as you'd cross the point where a operator would be almost mandatory. That said, there are actually very strong supports... that aren't supports. The AH Squad combined has like +20 ASPD, +52%HP, +20% ATK, +0,5 SP/s just for being in the Squad and Gladiia with Module reduces Phys/Arts dmg to AH by 30% and every AH recovers 3,5% max HP/s ... and then comes Ulpianus, who can (with buffs) 1v1 Black Snake and Steam Knight, while himself buffing all AH as well.

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The problem with Support Operators, is the fact that it was really hard to make them not broken. IF you make them not broken, then they must be sucks. No inbetween I think I'm the only person who always pray to God so that I can get Stainless from rate-off. His Support ability is so daym good, with the highest +ATK% buffs from his S1, good SP battery from his S2, & Offensive-Recovery Operators wet dream from his S3, heck even AFK operators could also utilize his S3 Silence-Alter? Oh ho ho 2x Surtr's Immortality to all operators? That is freaking awesome... Execpt you didn't need it most of the time- I have been building quite alot of Support (especially damage type) Operators... Suzuran, Skadi-Alter, Gnosis, Aak, Warfarin, Elysium (his S2), Saria (her S3), & now aiming to build Shamare & Silence-Alter. I just realized how broken are they, & if you really make something execpt damage, either you don't need it since there are better operators to do it, or they will be freaking broken but do actually hard to applies that makes... the older operator who even does it worse, but since they're easier to do it so they used again

Hey hey hey lol, saria’s debuff for bonus arts damage is actually not the same as arts fragility like in reed (it’s actually counted differently in calculations) xd

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The most absurd thing to me is that year1 5* medic Warfarin is equal to or better than a much later released 6* actual support operator Stainless. Sure Stainless can give more attack buff, by an utterly and completely negligible amount, or be more consistent with giving sp depending in the amount of trash mobs there are. However, he has to choose between sp or attack, while Warfarin always gives both and actually heals too. Now I get it, Stainless is balanced around the fact that he also gives a really small attack buff offskill, but for a 6* that has to choose between his roles either his passive power should be higher or his active power should be higher. How is a more shiny, newe, 6* actual support not significantly, objectively, absolutely and undeniably better than an old af 5* medic?!

I feel like people are forgetting skadi alter. I mean, sure, she is limited, but isn't she one of the best supporters?

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I think the problem is that we already have absurdly powerful DPS units, and if we were to then also have support units that powercreep the ones we already have then it would just trivialize the entire game and they would have to give us even more bloated enemies to even it out. On the other hand, they could still give us new support ops that DONT powercreep but also aren't totally inconsequential (like bryophyta)

What I'm happy about is that 4/5 stars remain relatively the same but still extremely diverse so you can challenge yourself for almost any stage

Well, it really is a problem and in current way the game is developing, many TRUE supporters are left behind and future ones arent needed. Oh, I'm sorry, I mean nowadays supports are used mainly to boost mid and weak chars, but why bother, if u can use 1 OP char?

But Think about it we have Suports for ranged but they don't have a Surtr, Mylnar, Horn, Jessica, Ines, Viviana, Silverash, Penace, Mudroc, Etc.. My point? Archers do Phisical Damage with ocasionaly Arts, Casters Do arts Damage and ocasionaly slows, The Melee units have Bind, Stun, Silence, Steal Stats, Tremble. Levitate, Damage Reduction, Dodge, Shields. Archer have def down, Ignore Dodge and Sometimes slow, Casters have RES Down, Slow, and Bind so most new units don't need nor should have Buffers unless it is with gimicks like qiubai bind and the levitate and necrosis Crew.

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Perhaps because the operators that are already in the game are so OP that they don't need any support so when nobody needs a support operator no one will pull for them. Take Patriot for example try defeating him with old and new operators and see which one is easier. Unbalanced meta is a common thing in video games specially the games that are getting old Once a game reaches its maximum player base the creators rather make more money by using the same formula again and again and just doing some minor changes to the game instead of actually improving it.

Nightingale and shining can still do a job. Thats all the healer i want honestly.

if they release OP support , that mean they need to make the stage harder than before, because 1 OP support mean OP team.

We really do need more good blatant support characters. Like a meta debuffer would change the meta so much and potentially allow for more strategies to be viable.

The problem with supports is that they are either too OP or just a waste of space. And when an op is OP (LOL) they will add enemies that are immune to its skills which makes an op useless or way less relevant! Just look at Lappland and its silence! You can bet that the player base would scream at developers when an op unit is completely useless in certain content because certain enemies would completely lock out and ignore skills and/or mechanics of an op!

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Not the best comparison, but Honkai Star Rail has way too many supports for only 1 year of being out, and compared to the dps it's like 40% supports and 60% dps. Arknights has like 10 supports out of the hundreds of playable ops, absolutely crazy. Clearly they aren't worried about dps powercreep with the release of W'alter, but where is the support powercreep? Pretty much just eyja alter in recent times. I agree though, some units like windflit are so bad at buffs that they aren't worth bringing at all.

Just rerun Stainless more often. He's not just a support OP. he's THE SUPPORT OP. HG slipped up big time and released a support with cracked up %atk buff, multiple renewable SP charging stations and something to mitigate the main flaw of offensive sp recovery ops.

Well, we have buffed characters powercreeping the hell out of the game.

How DARE you say that to my waifu eyjafjalla *reload my shotgun and point you* prepare to die *intense music* just kidding *put the shotgun down*. I agree with what you say in the video every time Arknights releases a unit, the question in mind is going to a DPS HG? Well.... YES, for me well shit. HG keeps releasing a unit that has DPS, not support unit, for me when reed alter got out I thought she a support but no she a dps and also healing.I don't know how in the future for arknights is like always a dps unit or not. Rip my phone storage cannot play arknights.

Shu is support? But yeah HG just saying: look i have railgun for you and you don't need shield okay just blast em

Ines and shu exist

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HG don't releases new supporters because no one will roll for them

The game already has all supports needed, how can you make another without powercreeping the current ones? And imagine a squad of 11 supports and GG, you can just ignore stage mechanics and delete everything. The way this game goes is utility-focused operators, and new 4* 5* covers what is lacking in the current roster. On the other hand, 6* can do everything on their own, skipping the "work together" strategy of a tower defense game, so they are bad design decisions. But for real, how can you guys playing all 6* and never get bored? So many players stay for years because of niche, if you can bruteforce first try all stages, what's the meaning of playing anymore?

I clicked because of Stainless my boi, u tricked me 😭 But yes, Qbai bes girl DPS and Def dominate this game, I agree, so I’m looking forward to troll enemies with Shu (well, if she decides to put her resume in my gacha bag, of course 😢)

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I mean why they do this, most 5 stars are sht, they use them as test material, release, look at performanse, if bad create broken ahh 6 star, GREAT SOLUTION, NICE ON. Why leto skill and talent are garbage? Why dagda skills hawe lowest multipliers and most dumb rng talent? Instead of norman dmg buff and some sudo-useful talent? Why hunter archetiype don't reload whole magazine at once?????????? (uhh well hunter class is sht so we will do some adjustments to it) Then they decide to create RAY dumb 6 star hunter That is just BIG NUMBA UGA BUGA(shee to reloads one bulet at the time, yes HyperG that exacly what hunter class needs good job. Why just why and list just goes on and on my god...help us. And most important WHY FROST-LEAF MODULE IS A JOKE????? it was done on purpose (woooo year 1 operators are tooo strong wooo weaken frost leaf) usles.

Arknights is a damage orianted DPS centric game, even if the support is borderline broken its almost always better to just bring a DPS instead of them. Arknights differs fro. Most other gacha games because of this as supports arent relevant as utility and DPS operators

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