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1 year agoit works pretty well as a recap episode, and as a teaching moment. covers, broadly, the events of the show up to that point (which, remember, is several years of airing and you might have missed a chunk of it), all while coating it in propaganda for the characters to reflect on and for the viewer to learn about. i remember being a kid and being outraged that the events were being portrayed wrongly, and it was a big learning point for me.
why is this drawn like a youtube clickbait thumbnail. defences isnt #1 because poe2 is designed to be more mechanic-driven for combat, so mechanics come into play more than numbers. if mechanics are more important than numbers, the numbers arent important. so the numbers are at the end of the priority list. its very shrimple