Are you really telling me to spend less time on legend? XD I expect to be rewarded for playing well, I’ve solo’d bosses just as trivially on a few other classes as I have on Shade. Namely Sienna and Bountyhunter Saltzpyre. The only real threat is the constant stream of specials that seem to spawn even during bosses most of the time. The boss is just there as a massive hitbox that slaps you around and punishes you if you don’t know the basics of dodging it which I should expect players to know when playing Legend or to quickly learn thereafter if they want to succeed consistently.
If you want it more difficult there is mods, as the devs truly stated.
All these characters had their own niches since VT1, classes expand upon that - giving them all equal or similar number of strengths and weaknesses is fine but that can be achieved just fine by buffing the weaker ones before nerfing the outliers to at least ensure first-hand that the niches aren’t tarnished. Otherwise we might as well all start playing Ironbreaker and Pyromancer. Or no. Battle-mage and WHC. The arguably most underwhelming classes at the moment compared to their counterparts.
I’ll also add I’ve been saved by many clutch zealots after getting wrecked by silent patrols. That flailing hero needs some love but he’s not as bad as people write him off either. He doesn’t go well with my playstyle however but I have a few friends that swear by him.
As for BH damage, I just pointed out that BH still wrecks bosses especially with a str pot.