Too many flashy abilities?

[Alerith]

Personally, I'd like to see a variety of motions more than bright lights. Can't stand it when the difference between three skills is the color of the light that surrounds your weapon.

This is one of the huge complaints that came with 1.0. Most of your abilities had the exact same physical motions, with the only difference being extremely underwhelming light effects.

However, since the new dev team took over, they've added some very good animations to previously bland abilities like Rage of Halone, and have added some wicked cool ones like Spirit's Within and Steel Cyclone.

Has more to do with your horrible analogy making ability.

A cookie in an oven is composed of already decided ingredients that can't be changed.

A game in alpha is not.

Following your analogy, no feedback should be given at all because the cookie can't be changed aside from how long it stays in the oven. It just comes out of the oven (launches).

You're still comparing the cookie to the game. Clearly you don't have the level of intelligence required to follow a basic comparison I'm making, so I'll write you off as a lost cause.