We believe that auxiliary effects and passives that are paired with these abilities are the primary means of adding depth and variety to each individual ability, while the core function should remain relatively close so you have an easier time discerning effectiveness of these abilities, and there are less overall situations of "dead abilities".

I main a sDK. The change to Lava Whip with the weapon damage boon was honestly a nice buff. Now you're promptly nerfing it... I wouldn't slot this "dead ability" if there was a stam version that was useful to me. The new classes have a better balance of stam and mag morphs. I would hope that you back-port that concept to the OG classes.

If you guys don't want me to just slot whip for the passive, then freaking give me a stam whip!!!