u/Cautious-Pudding-474

I would like to hear your own opinion the story's power system throughout the series but as for my own, I have given up on it being as good as it was in the start.

My favorite parts of douluo are almost always the first half of the story, before the mc hits lvl 50. At that stage they tend to be alot more creative with their powers, like tang san tripping people with grass, slowing people down with parasites so he can use hidden weapons against superhumans. There is also hu yuhao being largely in a support role with limited super moves that always came with a cost. Tang wulin was consistently the least versatile among his friends, he could hit hard but not much else and that made his character more interesting because he had to rely on his team.

There are still issues at this stage. Douluo tends to focus very heavily on video game like elements instead of letting the powers work like they should in. For example why was tang san limited to 3 nets a day, its not using 1/3 of his soul power per shot otherwise he would be near useless in a drawn out fight. But again, losing soul power doesnt ever seem to effect characters which makes very little sense. There is little to no martial arts in douluo which again makes little sense seeing as most people dont have soul power and tool martial souls would easily beat beast souls if they had any level of proper training, extra range in melee fights is stupid op.

The elements also make no sense the more I think about them. The ones I remember off the top of my head are, fire, water, earth, wind, life, destruction, space, dark, light, strength, defense, evil, luck? They have little to no connection to each other and are just, all over the place. This isnt even taking into account the ultimate elements, the only 2 that makes sense is fire and ice(hot and cold) because thats a measurable power. Ultimate ice is extreme cold and vice versa. But what is ultimate earth? Space, luck, gold? Earth doubled is just more earth. I liked it better when there was less elements and a smart spirit master could actually beat a more talented person.

The more the story goes on the more xiaogang's bull about trash martial souls is just hypocrisy. Not a single time does a person with a "trash" martial soul beat someone with more talent than them, not once. Tang san? Literally one of if not the best plant martial soul. Hu yuhao? Body martial souls can start a bit weak but have a build in second awakening, and his are eyes( literally one of the strongest possible in that category). Tang wulin? With how much dragon bloodline is in his body his grass its not even blue silver anymore. And let's not get started on the 4th mc who i could not name or care about(i couldn’t read pass the first few chapters) but I do know his grass is literally the most op of all the mc so far.

I liked douluo better when it was a story where skills and being smart actually mattered in a fight.

One thing that always irked me about douluo is how much it relies on video game logic. You have to specialize in one of a few categories, we never see anyone who doesn't unless they have twin spirits. Characters are stuck with their martial spirit and its skills. Support types who cant get attack skills just suffer as the most vulnerable. But that just doesnt make sense. In the thousands of years humans have existed on douluo they have never had complex self created soul skills? Martial arts? Internal arts?

A Support type can be just as dangerous if not more than an attack type if they have self created spirit skills. Heck just simply having a weapon would help. They can just boost themselves with their skills or keep healing. Fighting healers is a pain.

Do you agree?