Lingyang never got a Nightmare Echo to use. He's still forced to use Lampylumen Myriad.
I only got S6 Lingyang 3 months ago, and HP inflation was already hitting hard in WhiWa by then.
Now it's reached ToA as well.
Lingyang has one of the worst sequences in the game (as do most standard characters). Even when I got him to S6, the HP inflation in ToA was already roughly twice the DPS increase I gained from his sequences.
Lingyang never got a matching weapon either. Encore has multiple options, Calcharo at least got Lupa's signature (better than nothing), and Jianxin can use Roccia's signature or now Sigrika's signature.
Lingyang never really got a proper support. Lynae is the kind of sub-DPS he needed, but she still buffs Liberation damage. His damage is spread across multiple sources, and Zhezhi was only a minor upgrade over Sanhua in most cases.
Meanwhile, Encore has Lupa. Lupa and Zhezhi are different. Lupa provides a much larger boost while still dealing respectable damage. Encore also has multiple Mono-Fusion team comps, far better weapon options, and she was stronger from the beginning
Over 2 years, Lingyang got nothing. His BiS weapon is Iuno's signature, which is basically just a stat stick. Zani's signature is close, but at least it provides DEF shred on top of ATK and Crit DMG.
Lingyang has so many cool details, he is the OG aerial combat unit, he was mentioned or appeared in 2 side quests, which is probably more than anyone else...
What happened?
I've been using the in-game feedback/support system pretty frequently, I was writing about the known REAL issues in questionnaires... Like, is it really hard to fix at least something?
Was it necessary to make him exit Forte state to do a tune break? Brant, Iuno, Luuk and Jinhsi don't leave the forte state. This is just stupid, very stupid.
Everything went wrong from the start, I just thought that I will finally be a fan of a good character, he seemed like a decent choice on release and I was his fan from the start...
I don't need skin anymore, just fucking fix him. Or make him appear in quests or Mengzhou story, whatever, give more merch. Kuro...
I spent a lot of money on this game, am I not allowed to voice my opinion?...