I'm just curious to see peoples thoughts on the changes to the final boss of this Dark Visions for the Global release. Let's first outline the changes:

In summary, it got a race change, and the AoE's used by the boss now have far less hits, though it has the same total final modifier (JP was 4 hits at 0.5x mod per, GL is 1 hit at 2.0x mod). I'll try to give some brief info on what this might affect:

Race Change

I don't fully understand the reasoning for the race change. It seems to have pro's and con's? I'll just list what I think this changes:

• DarkLineage Sakura is a recent, powerful lightning support unit (to synergize with Zack teams), and she had 250% bird killer buff for this fight.
• Most FF7 units seem to have a lot of undead killer, including a 180% auto-buff to undead
• Ibara has 250% self-only undead killer buff, but not bird killer (stealable by Xon)
• Bird killer/buffers are overall less common

So overall, making it undead feels like a positive change in favor of the player, with the only obvious victim of the fallout being anyone who chased Dark Lineage Sakura with this boss in mind (a grand total of probably 10 or less people).

Hit Amount Change

So this change is about as subtle as a punch to the face. It was done to nerf Rikku without "actually" nerfing the unit directly (very taboo to do that in gacha). Let's briefly look at a few things this may affect:

• Rikku is much less viable as a top score option
• Only needing to mirage 1-2 AoE instead of 4-8 AoE per turn makes "normal" teams easier to build

I think that's about it? Other than nerfing Rikku (and making it easier to negate the physical with less mirage now), that seems to be about the only thing that this affects.

Summary

Well, now I'm curious to see some thoughts! Also, if I missed something either of these changes would impact heavily, let me know so I can edit in the above bullet points.

Are you glad that the Global devs stepped in to "deal with" Rikku? Are you unhappy that your favorite counter girl got an indirect swing of the nerf bat? Do you just hate DV and could care less one way or the other?