The Grinchlin mission is challenging on elite when not everyone is of the same skill, I'll give you that.... Only because you took away normal drops (vita and normal amount of hearts). Artificially hard, I guess you could say.
But now the monsters drop Speed, Defense and Attack boosts. I was one-shotting tier 2 monsters.
Yeah, the clockworks and missions don't need those boosts. They mess with how you play too, you have to keep adjusting to different levels of speed to avoid hitting into stuff, and amount of attack that can change whether you stagger an enemy with your attacks or not.
"amount of attack that can change whether you stagger an enemy with your attacks or not."
Never noticed. Thought that was with you weapon UV'd.
Yeah the speed is fun but its allure will wear off. The others are unnecessary. As with barriers, they are making Sprite abilities in the form of drops.
Well, it almost was a balance in a way...
-Drakon's Fire Barrier skill has a drop (and now Backfire Barrier is a drop for 15 times the length).
-Seraphynx's Orb Ultimate now has a drop, but don't stack making this still superior.
-Maskeraith's...recon cloak and recon flare? Not much here--so that's where the next drop may come from--unless one counts Caustic Quills being a Plague Needle and maybe Chaotic Haze being every haze bomb.
Graveyard it! Quick! Before they give all of us CTR MAX ASI MAX Brandishes!
The orbs dropped by Iron Heart Attack are the same as these boosts, they don't stack any more.
They are trying to balance the game bit by bit.