[Ranylyn]

- I didn't say change the fire attack to acid attack anywhere in the post? The thing is that even in terms of scalings, Flamethrower is on the lower end of damage for elemental autohits and not very good for putting points in (limited range, very niche use aka melting ice tiles, burn chance is based on your status infliction instead of an independent modifier.) Another thing for Mages is that there are many tomes that scale off strength whereas you /have/ to mutate something into a gun for it to actually scale off of strength (except for firthrower which does the EXACT SAME THING AS FLAMETHROWER PRETTY MUCH.) Why should you be forced to mutate an item or use one specific item only to match the scalings? No other class has attack skills that scale so unfavorably for their weapons.

- Gui scaling to grenade launcher/flamethrower

So... not replacing the Fire Attack... but... ADDING extra GUI scaling IN ADDITION TO the Weapon Scaling + Fire attack, then? I'm sorry, but I don't believe anyone would be crazy enough to suggest weapon scaling + 2 different stats on top of it. Hence I came to the only logical conflusion: REPLACING the fire attack with GUI, which is Acid Attack.

Regardless, many engineers are in fact dagger dancers or whatnot. Most engineers won't carry Flamethrower or Grenade Launcher at all, and honestly, the only reason I see to make them have any kind of GUI scaling is because of Pure Genius. Why do I say this? Because *most* guns (There's a few exceptions like the Hold Upper, I believe) also don't scale on GUI, so your entire argument about weapon scaling just completely falls apart. Unless you wanted to use Upgrade: Flamethrower on yourself (According to Dev, the upgrade skill bypasses a need for a Gun; I have yet to test this.) and use it with a dagger for maximum GUI shenanigans. And let's get real, here: if this means you can use Flamethrower with an axe (Engineer DOES get Bashfix, after all) then there's equal merit to keeping it with the Fire Attack scaling as there is in changing it to GUI.