Buff Hammer Evolves into...

[Squidslinger Gilder]

So I was just thinking. About all the times noobs bring a buff hammer when they should bring a mallet or when they completely mix up a build and bring something even more horrific. Not knowing what the buff hammer does.

Then it occurred to me...why is it even a hammer?

Sure beating something till it goes faster sounds fun but it's rather silly to think one hammer has the ability to improve speed, firepower, and durability. So then I thought...why don't we have a ratchet? Something that makes a bit more sense for fine tuning a machine.

I'm guessing it was easier for the devs to just keep the tool swinging hammer motion so going with a hammer of some kind makes sense. That's fine and all.

But still, ratchet. Even if it's being used to beat a powder monkey's skull in...makes more sense. Maybe its about time we had more animations. A ratchet animation could possibly be doubled for the wrench and spanner.

[Richard LeMoon]

Or a grease gun.

[Squidslinger Gilder]

True that would work and the animation would be simple. Probably just use the Chem spray animation.

[Richard LeMoon]

And imagine the innuendo!

[Mannson]

I support the grease gun evolution just because.. I could grease up a gun loaded with greased ammunition.

It'd be so slick gunner can't handle it!

[Queso]

The buff hammer is actually a pretty old relic functionally. It used to be an actual buffer that you would hold down the mouse to use and it would build up over time. There were a couple networking and user experience bugs that weren't trivial to work out, so it didn't make the launch timeframe.