#i’m too tired to do capitalization and proper sentences; i’ve been broken

[nekoprankster218]

ngl this 2.1 boss has killed all the goodwill HSR has built up for me

it’s not just that this is the worst designed boss I’ve ever encountered

it’s that this has really opened my eyes to a fatal flaw in HSR that may flip people’s perspective on it. it feels like I’m punished for not building *every* character, for not going through the grind for every character in the archive. my best teams that carried me throughout all of penacony are struggling against this one boss and all the characters I’ve seen recommended to fix this are all underlevel and half-built, and I’m broke when it comes to Trailblaze power because of all the previous building I’ve done for the previous teams, plus for *starting* the building on the Acheron, Gallagher, and Gepard I just got, and now I have to do *more* building for *more* teams.

at least with Genshin I can build like two teams max and be comfortable for the rest of the game. I am stuck. on a *story boss*. because I have a bunch of built teams that get TPK at the new mechanics and a bunch of teams with the potential to pass the mechanics that are all still underlevel. and there’s no downgrading the EQ level to make the boss a bit squishier or a Quick Start option so I can at least still take part in the upcoming event while I wait on building.

past story bosses also had this issue, but back then things were still so new that it just felt like I needed to build, needed more time to rank up, and then the future would be less challenging. now I’m starting to get this feeling that is gonna be a chronic problem for the rest of the game and idk if I can keep doing this grind song and dance every time a new boss demands a new team I had no idea I needed to prioritize while also needing to spend days and weeks building that new team because of this goddamn stamina system, all while watching event timers tick down and dodging YouTube thumbnail spoilers.