Why is Square Enix reusing the Forgiven Manatrigger AGAIN?

[Ultimatecalibur]

Gunbreaker unfortunately has a lot of shared models aka reskins already.

The Lakeland Manatrigger is a reskin of the Doman Iron Gunblade and the Coven Gunblade
Nabaath Manatrigger is a reskin of Molybdenum Gunblade
Gunblade of the Crimson Lotus is a reskin of the Ruby Tide Gunblade
The Deepgold Gunblade is a reskin of the Ghost Barque Gunblade
The Highsteel Gunblade is a reskin with the Padjali Gunblade

There are a lot of unique weapons, to be fair, and I think all of the Lakeland and Nabaath weapons were reskins, not just for gunbreaker. I think it's just more noticeable for gunbreaker because there are so few weapons for them in general.

To be fair, all those models were reskins/recolors for everybody else, many were multiple times over.

• Aery -> level 64 Crafted -> Lakeland
• Gubal Library -> Ghost Barque -> Deepgold
• Baldur -> lvl 60 ilvl 270 Crafted -> level 68 Crafted -> Naabath
• Ruby Tide -> Crimson Lotus (new model at StB release)
• "Grab bag" -> Bardam's Meddle
• i170 Tomestone -> Doma Castle
• Castrum Abania -> Fae

The Padjali and Kinna weapons were a grab bag of random reskins at release. The Empyrean weapons were all reskins of the High Allagan weapons save for SAM and RDM which reskinned the Horde weapons.

Only new weapon models added during ShB leveling were:

• Level 74 - Crafted "Bluespirit"
• Level 75 - "Ravelkeeper's"
• Level 78 - Crafted "Dwarven"
• Level 79 - "Forgiven"

I have nothing against recolors really and get why they do them from developing point (and they do recolors along with other jobs anyway so it's not surprising to have them), but using the same one in 3 consecutive patches.... makes me feel like we'll see 4th in 5.3. Why not using another model? There are some decent along with Mt. Gulg.

The Forgiven weapon was reused for the Gunbreaker's TEA "Ultimate" weapon (the Dancer's Ultimate was a reskin of the Shire Glaives) due to lacking a 4.X relic. The rest of the 5.2 crafted weapons are likely also going to be reskins of the Forgiven weapons. So the question is which other model would you have reskinned for TEA? The other 3 "unique" leveling models (Ravelkeeper, Dwarven and Bluespirit) wouldn't have fit in very well with the rest of the TEA weapons. The only real choices they had were the Forgiven and Shire models.