I understand they are a system in place to try and shift a meta around, but I find them extremely annoying. I either lean into the surges and do fine, or I'm punished with a damage reduction. What if I don't want to play Arc or Strand right now? I want to play literally anything else right now. This effectively means I'm actively being punished for playing how I want, and honestly, I really feel like I'd rather just not play then. How can anyone justify this as good game design? Surely there are better ways to accomplish what surges are supposed to do. I just want to relax and have a bit of fun, but I can't. Of course I could always just ignore them and go without surges, but then it just becomes miserable. Definitely still not hard, just annoying, which defeats the purpose of even playing.