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· Limbus Company has a more complex combat mechanism than other gacha games.
· In particular, the recently released 7th and 7th's Heathcliff identities possess various status effects such as Bleed, Shock, and Tremor.
· However, these status effects often don't provide significant utility in actual gameplay.

· Heathcliff's Bleed and Shock effects don't hold much meaning in general combat, and Shock, in particular, is almost useless due to its low damage.
· Bleed is also difficult to maintain and offers little reward, making it inefficient.
· These status effects are primarily useful only in specific game modes like Mirror Dungeons.

· Many of Limbus Company's identity designs are tailored for Mirror Dungeons (MD), reducing the utility of status effects in general combat.
· This limits the overall application of status effects in the game and leads to a design that relies solely on specific game modes.
· Consequently, many status effects are not properly utilized, hindering gameplay diversity.

· Paralysis, which incapacitates enemies, and Defense Reduction, which amplifies the entire team's attack power, are examples of ideal status effects.
· These effects allow for exploiting enemy weaknesses and enabling strategic team compositions.
· If Limbus Company had utilized these effects more actively, the gameplay would have been far more varied.

· **Shock**: Low utility due to low damage and limited interaction. Its only notable synergy is with Gloom Flame.
· **Bleed**: Contrary to its setting of being difficult to maintain but highly rewarding, it's actually easy to maintain and offers little reward. Synergy with characters like Rime is lacking.
· **Tremor**: Has the characteristic of leading to Rupture and can create synergy with other status effects. It also has the unique effect of increasing stagger thresholds.
· **Rupture**: Offers high skill power and rewards, but it's difficult to achieve. The status of Rupture has significantly changed since the appearance of Talisman Sinclair.
· **Enfeeble**: Its own damage increase is minimal, and it's mainly synergistic with critical damage increases. However, it lacks uniqueness as similar effects can already be achieved with other status effects.
· **Lethargy**: Similar to Rupture, but its effect varies depending on the enemy's sanity. It can be less efficient than Rupture if the enemy has high sanity resistance.
· **Charge**: While it had unique effects at launch, many identities now have similar 'Ramp Up' mechanics, diminishing its uniqueness.

· Currently, Limbus Company's status effects are too similar to each other or are too focused on specific game modes, lacking diversity.
· Improvements are needed so that each status effect has unique characteristics and strategic utility.
· For example, changes are needed such as the Shock effect dealing more damage as it stacks, or Bleed dealing additional damage under certain conditions.

· Limbus Company is a game with excellent potential, but it's not fully realizing that potential due to limitations in its game design philosophy and development capabilities.
· Improving various game mechanics, including status effects, is essential for enhancing the game's completeness.
· Project Moon needs to recognize these issues and work towards improvements.

· Changes are needed such as the Shock effect dealing more damage as it stacks, or Bleed dealing additional damage under certain conditions.
· The Charge effect could evolve into a support archetype that aids in triggering other status effects.
· Through such improvements, Limbus Company can offer deeper and more diverse team building and gameplay.

· Limbus Company has the potential to become the best gacha game.
· Improvements to game systems, including status effects, will provide players with a better experience.
· We look forward to seeing how Project Moon addresses these issues in the future.