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** Eve has below average stats but starts with Whore of Babylon, which gives a huge stat boost [[CriticalStatusBuff while near death]]. However, it requires you to have 1/2 red heart or lower to activate, which is very tricky to maintain. Accidentally picking up any red hearts or healing cancelled it, and there are very limited ways to take away red hearts without sacrificing soul hearts. Maintaining Whore of Babylon was too much of a headache, so getting Eve too function properly was too difficult. In ''Rebirth'', Eve specifically can activate Whore of Babylon at 1 red heart or lower, meaning at 1 red heart container you didn't need to dodge red hearts. ''Afterbirth'' also lets you unlock Razor Blade as a starting item, which lets her deal damage directly to red hearts so that she can maintain it even while holding soul hearts before she can lower her max health.

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** Eve has below average stats but starts with Whore of Babylon, which gives a huge stat boost [[CriticalStatusBuff while near death]]. However, it requires you to have 1/2 red heart or lower to activate, which is very tricky to maintain. Accidentally picking up any red hearts or healing cancelled it, and there are very limited ways to take away red hearts without sacrificing soul hearts. Maintaining Whore of Babylon was too much of a headache, so getting Eve too to function properly was too difficult. In ''Rebirth'', Eve specifically can activate Whore of Babylon at 1 red heart or lower, meaning at 1 red heart container you didn't need to dodge red hearts. ''Afterbirth'' also lets you unlock Razor Blade as a starting item, which lets her deal damage directly to red hearts so that she can maintain it even while holding soul hearts before she can lower her max health.



** Magdeline is a MightyGlacier whose slowly lost favor among players because her gimmick of extra hearts for lower speed wasn't that advantageous due to the game's mechanics. In ''Afterbirth†'', she can unlock a Speed Up pill as a starting item, cancelling out her weakness. ''Repentance'' changed it to a Full Health pill, which greatly increases her health pool instead.
** [[spoiler:Tainted Jacob]] was deemed the hardest [[spoiler:tainted character]] to play as because his gimmick was downright brutal. He turns into The Lost minus Holy Mantle for the rest of the floor if he gets hit by [[spoiler:Dark Esau]], whether from his constant assault or his [[TakingYouWithMe on-death explosion]], the latter which is extremely common late game, and just to rub salt on the wound, health up items were worthless while you were in your Lost form. A patch changed [[spoiler:Dark Esau]] to be much less detrimental. He's now completely invincible, his attack pierces damage reduction, had his attack pattern cleaned up, and any health up you gain in your Lost form now carries over.

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** Magdeline is a MightyGlacier whose who slowly lost favor among players because her gimmick of extra hearts for lower speed wasn't that advantageous due to the game's mechanics. In ''Afterbirth†'', she can unlock a Speed Up pill as a starting item, cancelling out her weakness. ''Repentance'' changed it to a Full Health pill, which greatly increases her health pool instead.
** [[spoiler:Tainted Jacob]] was deemed the hardest [[spoiler:tainted character]] to play as because his gimmick was downright brutal. He turns into JokeCharacter + OneHitPointWonder The Lost minus SingleUseShield Holy Mantle for the rest of the floor if he gets hit by [[spoiler:Dark Esau]], whether from his constant assault or his [[TakingYouWithMe on-death explosion]], the latter which is extremely common late game, and just to rub salt on the wound, health up items were worthless while you were in your Lost form. A patch changed [[spoiler:Dark Esau]] to be much less detrimental. He's now completely invincible, his attack pierces damage reduction, had his attack pattern cleaned up, and any health up you gain in your Lost form now carries over.
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** The Pyro was widely derided by competitive players for being a SkillGateCharacter, until they gained the compression blast. This allowed the Pyro to push enemies away and reflect every non-bullet projectile in the game, giving the Pyro a huge advantage against Soldiers and Demomen (two consistently powerful classes due to high AOE damage and health), and Medics, since the compression blast allowed them to do things like reflect rockets and grenades back, or separate an ÜberCharging Medic from his patient. This same update also gave the Pyro a sidegrade to their shotgun in the Flare Gun - a projectile-based fire application weapon, which allows them to harass Snipers that are otherwise completely unimpeded by them, and deal burst damage, as the projectiles crit enemies already on fire.

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** The Pyro was widely derided by competitive players for being a SkillGateCharacter, {{Skill Gate Character|s}}, until they gained the compression blast. This allowed the Pyro to push enemies away and reflect every non-bullet projectile in the game, giving the Pyro a huge advantage against Soldiers and Demomen (two consistently powerful classes due to high AOE damage and health), and Medics, since the compression blast allowed them to do things like reflect rockets and grenades back, or separate an ÜberCharging Medic from his patient. This same update also gave the Pyro a sidegrade to their shotgun in the Flare Gun - a projectile-based fire application weapon, which allows them to harass Snipers that are otherwise completely unimpeded by them, and deal burst damage, as the projectiles crit enemies already on fire.
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** Barmaid inexplicably had a largely physical skill set for a job that focuses on Magic and MP as its primary stats, making it basically useless as the only magic it had access to were skills it could inherit from the Night Queen and Hostess jobs (and only ''one'' skill from each). In ''Infinite Wealth'', it inherited many skills from the Hostess job, which also did not make a return, giving Saeko access to both fire and ice magic as soon as she properly joins the party.

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** Barmaid inexplicably had a largely physical skill set for a job that focuses on Magic and MP as its primary stats, making it basically useless as the only magic attacks it had access to were skills it could inherit from the Night Queen and Hostess jobs (and only ''one'' skill from each). In ''Infinite Wealth'', it inherited many several Barmaid skills were replaced with skills from the Hostess job, which job (which also did not make a return, giving return) while other skills were given elemental properties, making Saeko access to both fire and ice magic as soon as she properly joins the party.fit into more of a RedMage role.

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