It is a PvE game that is also story-based and, compared to today's standard games, extremely unfriendly to beginners.
It's not very unfriendly to beginners. Given that even on it's most difficult mode, the game is trivially easy (Yes, even with janky unoptimized builds that a beginner would use)
All the discussions about something being too powerful are dumb. Is it too powerful for you? Yes! Then just don’t use it if it bothers you.
This is a poor argument.
Using "It's a PvE game" or "Just don't use it" as an excuse for poor balance is not reflective of good game design.
Even in a PvE game, things should be as the developer intended - So anything that is overly powerful should be brought down.
To not mention how overpowered things can preclude more innocuous uses of things. Like, what if someone wanted to pick Tavern Brawler specifically to make using improvised weapons useful. But they can't because doing so will completely break throwing weapons and unarmed attacks by making them stupidly powerful.
Also, while this game is PvE, it's still multiplayer. What if you don't use OP things, but someone you play with online does and ruins the experience for you because they're excessively more powerful than anyone else in your party?
PvE games should be subject to balancing. So things are within the designers accepted parameters.
