User blog comment:HQDominator/This Shouldn't Be Possible: Angel Idol Buff/@comment-26140304-20151122040735

You know which buff shouldn't have existed? Mitigation.

Why? It's what caused a huge spike in difficulty. Back when Trial 003 was released in Global, a mitigator was a 99% must to bring. There are very few mitigators in the game now and it requires so much luck to obtain one. Luckily, more and more mitigators are being released to balance this out.