I'm honestly surprised you still play the game. You seem to hate it and think it has no future. Why not cut your losses and play something else? I've played so many gacha over the years, and the number of things this game does better than others far outweighs the current negatives in the first year. I'm curious to know which gacha game does things right in your eyes compared to this one. Or maybe there are none since you're still playing e7 and not those other games?
To be clear, the reason I haven't quit yet is because the game does some things (namely, the animation and some of the character design) better than basically every other game on the market. It's just that my enthusiasm for the game is severely hamstrung by the developers' seeming incompetence (or forced negligence, in the case of executive meddling).
In terms of gameplay I don't consider
any gacha game to be top tier, but I can't think of many games that are as blatantly broken as this one. If all you think about is whether or not you can progress, maybe it's not so bad, but given that it's a game with a significant emphasis on PvP and constantly has to resort to some really obscene restriction mechanics in PvE it's extremely obvious to me that they should have fixed a lot of this stuff a long time ago.
It's less "I fucking hate this game" (though I certainly will vocalize as much when I'm playing arena or GW) and more "this is weirdly disappointing". So many problems and they just won't address them. It's even more bizarre when you consider the things they
did fix, yet for some reason fundamental issues like poison breaking the game and being countered with absurd restriction mechanics continue onward. I just don't understand it, man.
I just want a good st fire dps. S3 into S2 will hit pretty hard unless her stats suck. I don't really care what is considered meta or good. I just use the heroes that are in line with the way I want to play the game and are cool to me, and Melissa fits that bill.
I just find her mechanics strangely deaf to the current state of the meta. To really work, curse should be stronger, she shouldn't be stuffed so hard by immunity, OR she should have extinction somewhere on her kit. As it is, against 90% of arena defense teams in champion she's entirely useless and in GW she's easily replaced by other units that are easier to gear up (since she
needs effectiveness to do her job).
I don't know who's in charge of balance at this point but I am not liking the things they are doing.