(Which is only really an issue in mods where sing/dance tend to be heavily buffed-with baseline values for Sing/Dance it’s still not very powerful).

The one exception is actually Sing/Dance, where yeah, two mimes and three dancers really is like bringing nine dancers. If mimes were OP giving them massive buffs and allowing people to unlock them even earlier than Ninja would be a balance problem, but in practice that’s not really the case.with one exception.

But I’ve played a lot more with mimes in mods, where they tend to have buffs like “Unlock ten times faster” and “large 25%-50% buffs to most of their stats”. I’ve played a lot with mimes, and certainly agree that they are hard to use. And if any of your calculators dies, and then another calculator spends their turn reviving.well, now you’re only miming two attack spells, so you’ve lost any real advantage you had from bringing a mime. Maybe like having six calculators where one of them is extremely fragile and you need to be careful not to hit them. And ok, maybe you take some careful steps so that the Mime doesn’t get hit, but they have about half the magic attack of an actual calculator, so it’s definitely not like having eight calculators. Yeah, that just kills the Mime cause they can’t equip chameleon robes. What’s the most straightforward Calculator strategy? Equip Chameleon Robes and hit everyone with CT4Holy, healing yourself and damaging enemies. Except it’s definitely not the same as having eight calculators.

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