However you understand who’s not getting wrecked? Maelle.
By the point Act 3 rolls round, you’ll unlock the total talent tree for the plucky teen, bringing with it a few of the recreation’s strongest skills — for any character. Previous to the sport’s first patch, Maelle’s Stendhal means made breaking the sport “a bit too simple,” as Sandfall wrote in a put up on X (previously Twitter). Gamers may deal literal billions of injury, one-shotting anybody who stood in Maelle’s means.
Even post-nerf, Maelle continues to be Clair Obscur’s high killing machine, making a triviality out of any battle she desires to swiftly finish. She’s so highly effective that generally I really feel like I’m going by means of the motions in utilizing different characters’ turns to set her up for achievement, like burning enemies with Lune so Maelle can shortly use Swift Stride and enter Virtuoso Stance, which lets her deal 200% injury. For lengthier, harder fights with enemies possessing seemingly infinite well being, generally it’s enjoyable to see simply how huge Maelle’s injury numbers can get.
Some gamers don’t need to simply win fights, however need to see how badly they will break the sport. And whereas Maelle is possibly the extra common killing machine, one who can attain these excessive injury marks in the course of the pure circulate of battle, fellow expeditioner Sciel isn’t any slouch in doling out injury. Deliberately going into fights not with the purpose of successful, however of completely breaking the sport means decided (and affected person) expeditioners can completely break Clair Obscur with Sciel and her scythe.
Maelle and Sciel are probably Clair Obscur’s two greatest injury sellers. Lune can hit some excessive numbers, however she’s typically extra helpful therapeutic allies or focusing on a number of foes for prime injury versus a single enemy for excessive injury. I nonetheless battle maximizing Verso’s Perfection, and Monoco was a tough character to get the hold of — it wasn’t till late within the recreation earlier than I used to be punishing enemies with Monoco, although I doubt I’ll be reaching 1.1 billion injury with him any time quickly.
Although Maelle’s highly effective Stendhal means was nerfed in Could, “you completely nonetheless can” break the sport, as Sandfall has said and plenty of, many gamers have confirmed. And it’s solely truthful — anybody who’s reached the top of the Renoir’s Drafts stage is aware of that even having an OP construct may not be sufficient for the sport’s hardest enemies.
