Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
I get that poison can be considered OP vs. Orphan but I still counter that with any FF boss tends to be easy if you have overleveled, and who is to say what the appropriate level is? With Orphan you are restricted to just how OP you can be, and that kind of factors into my thinking of how easy or hard something is. I think Poison + Defensive (not what I did personally, I went Poison + a lot of tactical switching between heals, tanking and offence) is just as much cheating the system as over-leveling is.
Except Poison is a basic skill, and if you use a Saboteur, he's likely to get poisoned in the fight. It's barely a secret, you'll likely find it so I can't agree that it's the same as "overleveling" which frankly helps you more in the early games as opposed to the later ones. Throw in the fact that XIII is like MMO entries where you can be overgeared as well if you spent your time farming money to level up your equipment, then I really don't feel there is much of a challenge here. I might agree with the whole "Death" thing since that is something you likely wouldn't try until someone told you, but poison is a basic starting skill for it's role and using a saboteur is kind of a no-brainer in XIII so this hardly requires skill, foreknowledge, or excessive time wasting like grinding to pull off.