The usual suspect was the shotgunning. Not the debuffs, play style, stars aligning and shit. Whatever explanation or apology about the VoD one may pull off, the dog is burried right there.
How the damage distribution is supposed to be balanced properly, when a single (small) change you do as a developer is multiplied by X by this idiotic mechanic?
Maybe remove it completely already, both from player and monster skills, and rebalance?
Random oneshots speak of balance issues and ALL the shotgunning abilities have this potential.
On a side note, shotgunning doesn’t even work as intended - ranged are mostly unaffected, melees are obliterated under certain conditions and timings.
TLDR
Shotgunning is a piece of shit mechanic and should go, for good.
I think it should never go unless it gives signal of that he/she will shotgun. Giving a delay and making it obvious before shotgunning is best solution for this problem but without shotgunning bosses can be less exciting.
