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It always come down to the same thing.

"Wit is weak due to round robin since Ini is useless."

It always come back to this claim and no matter how much someone will bring up that Round Robin is much more challenging and better designed than "High Ini First Serve", it will always come down to "Larian can think of something then" without offering a proper solution that won't go back to "Stack INI and act 4x in a row, completely deleting the AI".

Most of the whole "ini stacking is good" all comes from the experience with EA. Having been to Act 3, if Ini was a thing, every build must have high Wit because it becomes a game of "Who shoot the source spell first". Easy example, Red PRince story last fight against the other lizard. They have stealth, decent ini and instakilling Arrow storm. Without round robin, If you don't have ini, you die. What's the counter? Get more ini than and have Evasive aura up or you die. In the end, it all comes down to "Stack ini battle" more than making a decent build.

That's why Round robin is good, at least it frees you from having to have wit in every build so you get to play. At least it allows you to replenish your armor with Mend armor and Soothing cold in the middle of all the attack so high ini enemies don't outright wipe your group and high ini team comp don't outright shut down 80% of the enemy team on t1. You already have high crit chance anyway so most of the time, you aren't losing any damage if you crit with high ini build compared to high fin/str.

High ini competition is bad and it gets boring real quick. You only enjoy it most of the time because you are blinded by the amount of power you have against enemies and with that taken away, no wonder most of the complaints have to include how they feel weak compared to the enemies. They only hate round robin because it forces them to actually play well and that plans can actually go wrong now if they were pulled out of their ass in 10 seconds.

Don't hate the changes just because it feels different. Play the game until a certain amount to see the extend of the effect the changes bring along instead of just saying "DURING MY TIME IN EA"