Conceptual Balance Mod 1.83 released!

[Finalgenesis]

As said, they have quite a few vulnerabilities, and a big portion of SC cost comes from hammerless forging nowadays, and a fully equipped Ettin is actually pretty expensive (~50 gems in equipment). A similar level of expenditure on say treant (~30 gems in eq only) or Grendelkin (~50 gems in eq) will yield a generally superior SC, though it's good that they are somewhat differentiated and each have different pros and cons they bring to the table (ex. Early access for Ettin as mentioned).

Previously Ettin cost more and had 0 resist, it now comes with 3x 50% resist and is actually usable.

I've fought a few equipped Ettins in 1.83 and they are like most other SC chasis, with quite a few weakness for players to take advantage of.

Depending on your national path, research and their Ettin equip (vulnerability) there's many things you can do, a few of which were offered here, if you need more I'm sure we'll jump on it with more solutions.