we also have 600 es shield why not 600 life shields ? When they created life es there was some ballance at first but somehow people learned how to craft better es gear while Life left behind . Then monster damage and content difficulty got improved and life was left behind . With more damage content armour became unreliable . All of this gets us to today where best defense is measured in your eHP . <| sep |> Man , they ' re really living on the razor ' s edge . <| sep |> Fire and Wind Imperils are both really good things to have . Butz ' s Ragnarok can hit weakness on both fire and wind . Tifa would fit in with Butz on an earth imperil team if you have one of those . So yeah , all pretty decent . <| sep |> Looking at Circe , argonaut should suffer from the same problems cryptic error messages when converting AST to case class and inability to fail on excess JSON fields .