Blaine
Cis-Het Oppressor
on Dom? Never happened. I always collect the bladeling remains after the beast fight for adrenaline glands and get the full set of oddities.
Yeah, because there are like four dozen of them on Dominating in seven waves. I'm fine with Hard's mere two dozen-odd. It's a mine, not a clown car.
That, of course, is the biggest issue with balancing Classic: Killing more shit on higher difficulties = obtaining more XP. On the other side of that coin, although it's wholly inclined to stop awarding players XP for killing more of the same general enemy type, you also shouldn't force them to slog through large quantities of those now low-value mobs unless you have a very good reason. Kill The Beast qualifies as a very good reason, mind you. The wave assault is the climax of the quest line, and that climax is well conceived and presented.
Since Dominating throws substantially more enemies at the player, that means more XP. Though to be fair, if someone's playing Dominating in the first place, one can hardly criticize them for playing Classic mode.
Biggest downside of oddity system? Completing Gauntlet gives oddity XP, so I wanna do it, but it's the Gauntlet, so I don't do it, and it bugs me.
Is Gauntlet generally unpopular, I wonder? I always avoid it either until late, or entirely, unlike pretty much all of the rest of the content in the game.