I wish the buffs in this game weren't so hyper specific.

Disclaimer: I enjoy playing the game and will continue to play the game. I am not dooming. This is merely a critique.

Wuthering waves teams consist normally of a sustain/buffer a subdps/buffer and a main DPS (for the most part). Most premium teams have shore keeper and a limited subdps/buffer who provides 2 separate buffs, elemental dmg increase % and dmg type increase %. Many characters fall into this category like yinlin (electro/resonance liberation) and zheshi (glacio/resonance skill).

In my opinion, the lack of generalist 4 star buffers and these hyper specific buffers creates a very predatory pull order. For insance if you pull carlotta, you will want to pull or feel pressured to pull zheshi. As a comparision, Honkai starail offers supports like sparkle, ruan mei, tribbie and sunday. Those characters have buffs that can utilized by the majority of dps characters in the game. Having these targeted teams with a severe lack of options is detrimental and severely anti F2P. I understand that that is the intention from the devs, but in my opinion it causes the game to be less fun.

When a new dps character comes out, there is barely any thought put into teams. Players just slot in the limited buffer and call it a day and if your lucky there is a 4 star that can be utilized like sanhua. Team building is solved and unfun. Now this is something that is fine on its own but its accompanied by a lack of 4 stars.

Often times 4 stars are used to provide alternate options for teams. In other games, pulling extra copies of 4 stars is incentivized and in some cases can be more predatory than a limited 5 star. I bring this is up because 4 stars are something that can make money for the devs and wuwa devs seemingly don't want 4 stars to be that useful.

If the devs wanted to be player firendly, they could introduce subdps/buffers that offered more general buffs such as atk%, all_attribute_dmg%, dmg amp%, defense shred, res down on outro. For some reason they leave the general buffs exclsuively to the sustain/buffers like shore keeper, but there is only one shore keeper!

In other games you can still have fun without complete premium teams, but wuwa makes this a little more difficult to do.