Quote Originally Posted by Rilifane View Post
It would make a lot more sense to merge Fire III and High Fire as both grant AF 3/ refresh the timer, Blizzard III and High Blizzard for the same reason but with UI3, Freeze and Blizzard IV as both don't grant UI/ refresh the timer but instead grant 3 Umbreal Hearts. And, as mentioned, Foul and Xeno as they're functionally the same once Foul gets the trait. Flare and Despair also work because both are your finisher and the merged skill still get used only once for single target but twice or more with MF/ Ether for aoe.
Fire IV is the only skill that shouldn't be merged with anything as it has a unique spot by not refreshing the timer while providing highest potency outside Polyglot skills and Despair.
Yeah sounds about right. But the point stands still that you can fuse abilities for button bloat but they rather remove kaiten then fuse abilities