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Tier 4 skills are here to stay, so let's talk about these powerful variants of existing skills. Background: The first Tier 4 passive was Death Blow 4, a small yet still major upgrade to Death Blow 3 (boosting the Attack of Player Phase attacks by +8 compared to the +6 of DB3). This was made available from the Brave alt of Celica back in September 2018. At the time, there was probably debate as to what this meant for other skills, but that didn't necessarily equal knowing what to expect from further Tier 4 passives. Ever since, there's been a small yet raging stream of Tier 4 passives making their way to the hands of normal units. They cost the same as skills such as Distant Counter and many Personal skills, and have equally powerful effects. Later on, we received an update to the skill inheritance function that allowed us to inherit up to 4 skills at a time, up from the 3 that it had been. While this was welcome, it was pretty evident this was because of Tier 4 passives being impossible to pass down properly without inheriting at least the Tier 1 variant prior. Now that they're here to stay, for what it's worth, what do you think of them? Is this the right way to go about upgrading existing skills? Could this have been handled better? What other skills deserve Tier 4 upgrades, and in what way? Anything else to say on the matter? I myself think things are kinda getting a little out of hand. Sure, they're premium skills that deserve to hold powerful effects for how hard it is to acquire them. But we very quickly started going overboard with what they actually did. DB4 was a very basic upgrade from DB3, but then you look at the most recent Tier 4, Distant Defense 4, and see not just a simple upgrade to the skill, but also an effect that prior was only available to certain personal weapons, two seasonal exclusive skills I'm not sure anyone actually uses, and the 2018 Valentine units weapons. Many of the skills feel very much like multiple skills in one, and I'm not sure how to feel about that. Though it would be interesting to see what they do to Close Defense... As a reminder, below are all the Tier 4 skills in existence as of typing, as well as the unit they are available from.