Personally for me (I enjoy Savage / EX Content but am by no means a top 5% player) the class just feels so unforgiving.

Any time an error is made either mechanic, death, or missed cast; and you are instantly penalized for the next minute until your timers come back up.

To echo everyone else: Flare Star just feels bad and janky. It needs something more. Either have it refresh umbral hearts or give us a +100% Ice Potency buff or something to make it worthwhile. If you don't get all six Fire IV's off because of mechanics or anything else its a useless capstone skill.

I'm not overly upset about the Ice Paradox change as I do understand, but as others have pointed out it makes the ice phase feel so pointless. Perhaps the change is to keep Flare Star through the phase and it can be cast during Ice Phase but keeps the AF Potency Buff and brings you to Fire Phase with AF3/3 Hearts. At least at that point it would feel like a skill moving you back into the damage phase and would be an overall potency buff. It also eliminates the overuse of Transpose which also feels incredibly janky.