I addressed the gameplay aspect as well as the realism aspect. I wasn't "detracting" you.
I've said a ton of times that game companies, usually JP ones, often don't bother trying to make up for the possibility of people being assholes.
Mainly because those are the minority in Japan.
I really don't know what "character" you're talking about that "can dash AND basically create a wall of damage".
Assault Buster? Straight Charge? Tornado Dance? Twister Fall 0? Il Zonde?
I can't imagine that you're referring to Guren Tessen, because it hasn't worked that way for me. I haven't seen others mowing anything down with it either.
And yes, I have tons of characters at 75 for every class too. It doesn't mean much, really. I have seen 9999 shitty players at level 75.
Personally, I can't say too much about Guren Tessen as I haven't played Katana much lately. There's something about it I just don't like, not sure what.
My preferences are Knuckles, and now Double Saber. TMG, Rifle and Bow, too. Then Wand. Techs bore me.
The whole game is full of stuff where everything dies before other people can catch up.
It's not just class design issues, but progression issues. There are tons of people with fancy gear rendering the rest of the game pointless for people at lower difficulties.
Aside from incentive, stronger gear is there for weaker people to play at higher levels of difficulty, but when higher skill people can obtain the same gear, the gap never closes.
All melee was vastly far worse before they buffed melee damage, sped up and reduced hitpause of many melee weapons multiple times, and increased the speed/distance/limits of melee travel attacks.
That's the way it was for like 2 damn years. Or at least a year. i don't remember, but it was terrible and sucked. They are still buffing melee even now.
Sword in general has always been slow as shit. Sword Gear needs to go to hell.
I've complained about it a billion times and I'm sure tons of other people have.
Sure, you can complain about these things all you want, but SEGA are just not very bright at fixing these issues.
Much of the game has clearly been an exercise in experimentation.
There's no point going off at us about it as if we don't know or are ignorant of the issues.
I don't think anybody's disagreeing with you so much as you're mish-mashing strange irrelevant points.
That's probably why everyone focused on the realism aspect.
Finally, that job comment was ridiculous and irrelevant.
Ironically, one of the reasons other people kill stuff so quickly is because they have jobs that they earn money from, that ends up being spent on PSO2.
So, "jobs -> money -> PSO2 AC scratch items -> sell -> ingame cash -> stronger character".
It's not "no job = free time to learn a very simple thing -> obnoxious unobtainable 100% difficult skill". That's not how it works.
See those guys finishing time attack insanely quickly? They've very likely spent tons of cash on PSO2 to fancy up their character.
People without jobs are much less likely to have done that.
Difficulty is subjective, as is fun.
It doesn't take me long to learn stuff like step dash, and I am very far from being top player.
That kind of thing is not "100% difficult", nor is it even necessary for regular play.
It's not like you're missing out on much by smacking trash mobs anyway.
Whether it's by you or someone else, they're going to go splat in a few seconds.
Multi is flawed. If you don't like boring multis (I hate them) then just play alone or in small groups like I do. Problem solved.
I taught a friend how to use step dash in a very short amount of time. He hates it, but he learned how to use it well.
If I and my friend who hates PSO2 and hates step dashing/travel PAs can learn this stuff in probably less than an hour, then what the hell is your excuse?
It's ironic that you complain about shoddy work when you yourself don't seem to want to put an effort into learning stuff.
Protip: If other people can do something you can't, it does not mean that you're the only person in the world with a job.
And I am absolutely certain I hate shoddy work a bazillion more times than you or anybody else on here.
So don't try and dismiss my posts by saying I'm detracting from your argument, because I'm not.
Extra disclaimer: I'm lacking sleep again.