Onslaught

The onslaught nerf to enemies hp was unnecessary. The only change that needed to be made, was consolidating the buffs. There's an argument that the enemies are bullet sponges, however this is the way I view it.

The enemies were bullet sponges because the buff system exists within onslaught. Let me elaborate so this make sense. If you roll the right buffs, you could get to insane power levels (aka power fantasy) that we cannot normally achieve.

I won't lie, they added a ton of useless buffs which made getting that power fantasy very difficult because of how diluted the "pool" of buffs became BUT. They fixed that, the nerf to enemies hp on top of fixing the buffs was overkill.

That is why onslaught was fun, the idea of rolling buffs and fighting off tough enemies that don't exist in any other content. The buff system is a huge factor in combating the bullet sponge enemies. Basically the identity of onslaught is what i explained.

Now that the mode is nerfed, descendants like valby or ines that doesn't even need a buff to do well, has been pulled even further ahead. The nerf has done nothing for weaker descendants to shine. So what was the point, imo.

Also the devs are hyping up transcendent weapons to be insane, why nerf when there is a new power system on the way?

One piece of challenging content that existed in the game and we couldn't even have that, even though onslaught 1 and 2 exist for those who prefer a more chill environment (again with the same loot, at a lower drop rate, which makes sense). If you wanted more chips, higher tier rings or double gold drops on weekly anscenstor mods, then you have to do the higher stages, that concept is called "loot incentive". Aka a reason to play stages 3 and 4.

Oh and let me not forget to mention that onslaught was slowly bringing life back into the support roll in the game, and support yujin and luna specifically were being played way more in the past few months than the past year of tfd. (And yes I do know luna has been played alot specifically for leaderboard boss killing, but in mobbing content, buff luna was niche).