Quote Originally Posted by Sylvain View Post
It's called a visual upgrade.
In the same way healer get Stone, StoneII, StoneIII, Glare, GlareIII
Like seriously you can't be mad a that? On SMN sure, a visual upgrade as lv90 skills sucked, but as a leveling thing? Who cares? it's pretty. Same thing just prettier.
I think i'm expressing myself very badly. I was lowkey expecting nothing more than standard upgrades for those two and heat blast, and it didn't disappoint. They're as you say, basic upgrades, nothing more, but that's not the point.
The point I was making is that they're identical. They were also identical except the AoE part back then, which was odd, so I'm glad they both have cleaving now, but I'm calling it lazy because they essentially made them identical, that's it really. They do have a minor role as they still force you to alternate between 2 ogcd buttons instead of just one, so there is that, but I still do feel it's lazy, but again, it's better than when gauss had no AoE (actually curious to see if the base gauss has an AoE or not now).


Quote Originally Posted by Sylvain View Post
So? If anything it means you've more choice on where to reassemble instead of always reassembling this one skill.

And yeh excavator is a minor thing indeed. I feel they could have gone with a different follow-up than the chain saw.
Yes, I know that FMF is specifically made autocrit to keep freedom on reassemble targets. But it also means like all those all flash no substance 2min skills that are unlocked by pressing your buff/burst button, the rotation just plays on its own when it comes to it without any form of other input for it. Just press a button, watch a nuke go on without any kind of effort. Perhaps my dislike of this was more aimed at those copypasted skills in general than FMF specifically.