Fascinating edge case. Thank you for letting me know that can happen.
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I don't remember dying to Infinite Faces either? Is there a recorded scene where this happened? And I didn't grind nearly that much. My martial will is at level 1725 and my power is around 20 Qa now, and I'm just working on the first of the six regions, so I guess power was in the T level before? I had maybe 250 force tempering at IF or something? (I have over 550 now but I've been running some fights in this region.) At any rate, I don't remember grinding much at all to be able to defeat IF.
Edit to add: I defeated Shapeshifter first try as well. Not sure if that's what was intended? Seemed like I was supposed to determine patterns of strain and then find the right sequence, but five shifts (each version once plus one repeat) caused enough strain, apparently.