Let me try and steer the conversation back to the rant relevant to this thread (as opposed to the Phoenix ranting) or old school messageboard flame war that seems to be kindling...
I saw this thread when it was created and was on the lookout for this item from that point on. I encountered it maybe 5 total times. Of those, it did the spammy replay thing only once, but the agent had 2x bleed & ravaged, so he was dealing more damage to himself than my whole team. Even without that, it seems like it'd be more of a time waster than a game changer - it wasn't doing too much damage.
For context:
I'm level 195, and this PvP fought as high as at least 224 and as low as 168 (just looking at recent battle report). I finished 73rd overall (0.24%) at 2083 with 266 wins.
It seems like that is a pretty wide net of player levels I cover, skewed toward the better ranked players, with a reasonable sample size of battles. So...
- Does this item have a bigger impact at higher or lower levels than I, and it's just not of consequence in my range?
- Did I just get stupid lucky avoiding it as much as I did?
- Were the couple of people I met wielding it really weak, and in the hands of a stronger agent it is more powerful?
The full Demon Set seemed far more prevalent than anything else.