In my opinion, Hero Specialization is a good idea, but specialization should be just an extra buff in certain area. Not a major kit of a hero.

Also, Seven Knights is a strategy game. Player should take time thinking, create, and decide by themselves which heroes they want to use and build, but Specialization (and meta) forced players to build certain heroes for certain contents. Everyone practically build an exactly same best team without creation.

I would like to point out my suggestions regard Heroes Specialization problems as follow.

1. Awakening Heroes become worse than their pre-awakening counterparts outside their specialize contents.

I believe all of awekeking heroes deserve overall stronger kit. Not only in their specialization area.
Evan, Karin, Yuri, Jupy, Snipper, Li and Hellenia are all good awakening heroes,
but later released Awekening heroes became worse and worse.

Ariel - Critical buff became weaker. Actives skill is just a bit stronger than original version.
Shane - Her "Immaterial Butcher" is no different from normal form's "Soul Slayer" outside raid.
Sieg - Lost his critical buff passive. Active skills became weaker.
Nia - Lost her 5-targets damage reduction passive. Active skills became a lot weaker than original form.
Ruri - Practically, she dos not help much in Hell Daily Dungeon. Anything Pierce can take her down in 1 shot. Daily Dungeon expert hero should have strong buff like Snipper and Chloe in Korea Server. Her kit outside Daily Dungeon is not that good also.
Espada - Her kit is quite good. Viable in many mode. But Awakening Skill outside of Niu Mo wang is too weak. Also, where is her team bleeding protection buff? Don't tell me I have to rely only on Necalli forever?


2. Same position Awakening Heroes unbalance.

Like I suggested earlier, I think Jupy is a good example for Hero Specialization.
She can do exceptionally good damage in Castle Rush, while still being a viable choice for Raid and World Bosses.

However, because of that, same back-line DPS heroes like Snipper became limited to only Iron Devourver, and Shane became limited to Raid.

Awaken Snipper is indeed stronger than his original from, but he still far more inferior comparing to Jupy.
Apart from Castle Rush, we can use Jupy in Storm Wing, Niu Mo Wang, Iron Devourver and Raid, and she can still dishes out decent damage.

However, Snipper can do decent damage only in Iron Devourver. No reason to use him over Jupy in Castle Rush, Storm Wing, Niu Mo Wang or Raid at all.
Same goes for Shane, She can butcher Destroyer Gaze in a couple of minutes, but she even worst than Snipper in all other contents because her kit is practically the same of her pre-awakening kit outside raid.

I suggest that developer team should revise this term. Why only Jupy gained all developers loves?


3. Specialization for single world boss.

I would like to state that I do not appreciate current World Bosses specialization because heroes who specialized for just a single boss like Snipper, Ariel and Espada are useless when their boss gone.

Players spend 300 shard to awaken them but get to actually use them ONLY 7 DAYS PER MONTH.
And if new world boss are implement in the future, We will get to use them 7 days and they become worthless entire 1 month.

I think this is unacceptable. They should viable for all world bosses, or at least 2-3 bosses,
or their original kit should strong enough to be a viable choice in other contents.

Word Boss is different from Raid and Castle Rush because World Bosses keep switching every week.
Shane specialize only in Raid but we get to use her everyday.
Hellenia specialize only in Castle Rush but we get to use her everyday.
While we get to use Snipper and Ariel only 7 days and they will become useless for another 21 days.


4. Awakening Heroes Skill Kit Suggestion

I would like to give an example of Sieg and as an acceptable Awakening Heroes with Specialization in my opinion. (This is just a suggestion, i did not want everything exactly as I say.)

Passive : I Got Your Back!
- Protecs all allies from being stunned for 6 turns. < His original form kit.
- Increase the Critical Rate of all allies by 30%. < His original form kit.
- Decrease cooldown by 10 seconds for all allies for each basic attack. < Additional from Awakening.
- In castle Rush Mode, cooldown decreasing change from 10 seconds to 15 seconds. < Specialization

Active 1 : Wreck It! (Cooldown 74 sec)
- Inflicts 300% Physical Damage on 1 enemy. < His original form kit.
- Increases the damage received by the enemy by 80% for 2 turns.
- Remove the enemy's buff. < Additional from Awakening.

Active 2 : Unsealed! (Cooldown 150 sec)
- Inflicts 600% Physical Damage on 1 enemy. < His original form kit.
- Ignores the enemy's Defense. < His original form kit.
- Critical Hit will be applied. < Additional from Awakening.

Awakened Skill : Awakened Inner Beat
- Inflicts 1000% Physical Damage on 1 enemy.
- Ignores the enemy's Defense and applies Critical Hit.
- Increase the Basic Attack damage of all allies by 20% for 3 turns.
- In castle Rush Mode, Increase the Basic Attack damage of all allies by 60% for 4 turns. < Specialization

The idea is to make his kit overall stronger and viable in other mode, while still excels in Castle Rush.
With this kit, being a secondary DPS with cooldown reducer and damge dealt debuffer, he brings a lot more utility in Raid and World Boss, not just a mere anti-stun placement.


5. Non-awakening Heroes.

Maybe you should focus on remake and specialize heroes who were out of the meta, low utility, and no place in the game nowadays instead.

Heavenia, Joker, Ming Ming, Xiao, May, Alice, Jane, Black Rose, Jin, Daisy, Rei, Tsing Tao, Bai Long, Zhao Yun, Diaochan, Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Kwonho... etc.
Even Giparang and Da Qiao who used to be popular now started to disappear from the game.

There are a load of them now so give them a job to make them viable and gain their place in game again.

Personally, I really want my Jin to back in action, and please give him a costume.
And poor tiger Kwonho... he never had his place in any contents, and now he is useless than Miho's tiger.


PS.
- Please also do something with current "Destroyer Gaze Extinction" crisis in Raid.
- Still waiting for Ares Cup, Guild War Replay, Klahan English voice.