Game Mechanics Mangle MID is a little boring.

The Mangle major ID is a little boring, and I think is an example of how not to do a major ID.

Major IDs usually have a tangible effect on how you play the game, such as increasing meteor speed, or increasing totem tick rate, which then plays into finding a way to best use the major IDs, and the items they are assigned to.

Mangle is just a small upgrade to Lacerate, and one that I don’t think would have a tangible effect on how you play the game.

What I suggest is something more like this:

Mangle: Lacerate only deals 1 slash, but becomes omnidirectional, and the slash travels in the direction you casted it from.

This would solve the issue of Lacerate never really doing anything besides flying, unless you are really close up to the enemy. Now, it acts as a sort of projectile that can be aimed, which, for assassin, I think is a nice change of pace.

It would sort if be like Grubberfly’s Elegy from Hollow Knight, where you swing out a sword beam.

 

i agree that current mangle is pretty lame as MIDs go, considering there is literally an identical ATree ability
however
what does omnidirectional mean? like a circle? (also what am i supposed to imagine? shockwave from MCD?)

 

Isn’t Lacerate already omnidirectional

 

I wouldn't call it small but I agree I've said this before - it's very bland

Isn't Lacerate already a big box AOE around the player..? Correct me if I'm wrong

Later you described it as a projectile; does this mean the player does not move anymore? I'm not sure about this idea because Shurikens basically already serves that purpose. In the past, however, I remember reading an idea for Backstabs as projectiles which I thought was cooler, though.

@Salted made this major ID btw