Sandfall Interactive's wildly popular turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has only been out for a few short weeks now, but its players have already discovered ways to transform one of its best character Skills into a wildly overpowered nuke of a hit. As a result, the developer is now toning down its power with a nerf, with the change slated to go live tomorrow, May 9, alongside a variety of hotfixes on Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, PS5, and Xbox Game Pass.
The Skill in question is Stendhal — an extremely powerful move in Maelle's kit that players get access to in Act 3 of Expedition 33's story. In exchange for depleting eight of Maelle's Action Points (AP), any Shields she has at the time, and hitting her with the Defenseless debuff that increases damage taken by 25%, Stendhal allows you to deal colossal high-risk, high-reward damage. On its own, it's already extremely potent; with various damage buffs and other bonuses, though, players have managed to absurdly spike its lethality, getting its damage numbers well beyond the two billion mark in many cases.
