Another Tira note: There's a job in the vanilla game that can drop her in one hit too - Monk, with Chi Burst.

@Flux Thanks for sharing your experience! Unfortunately, it is as you say, and I'd like to keep anything that's part of the vanilla game as untouched as possible to maximize compatibility with others' mods.

Theoretically, it'd be possible to run reaction shenanigans and "reflect" AddSpecificStatusCount(Loaded, -1) to the Desperado, but given its already bonkers action economy, that seems... undesirable. Nevertheless, thank you very much once more for your input!

Hi- Regarding Tira, I wanted to share my knowledge since I ran into a similar problem while developing my job mod.

Things that can bypass her shield:
- Skills not explicitly flagged physical or magic- they have to be flagged at least one to be properly evaded.
- Recoil damage.

Other than that, my only recourse was to increase the stacks on her debuff, but if this is a completely standalone job mod I can understand not wanting to mess with anything outside that scope. Hopefully that can help you fix Desperado.