The goal of this change, other than to make the skills viable in Eclipse, is to make REX's self damage matter a bit more and not easily avoidable with a few items. It also helps various items get more use on REX by only interacting with damage from enemies.

Rex feels extremely sluggish, and a big part of that is lacking any weight behind its really awesome sprint animation. It's going to receive a sprinting speed buff, because I love the little plant-robot guy (I know all the other characters I was trying to standardize their stats, but I don't care, it feels good to use).

Why does REX's primary attack have a proc coefficient that's even less than MUL-T's nailgun? It's a hidden nerf with massive consequences for REX's item synergies, and for no good reason.

Under normal circumstances this would be a huge buff. However, the health cost has been changed to ignoring armor and block, and REX starts with 20 base armor. This armor was already reducing the self-damage by 16%, so the skill needs a cost reduction in order to stay viable with these changes.

Attempting to give REX's default utility a niche over the very powerful damaging and healing alternative. Increasing the weaken duration lets it maintain full debuff uptime on groups of targets.

These changes are similar to Seed Barrage's, in that they make up for the lack of damage reduction from armor. However, I find it to also be a bit overtuned in terms of the raw healing amount, so I'm slightly reducing the amount of health you get back (while I could simply not reduce the health cost, that would make the skill a bit too volatile imo).

This is one of my least favorite skills in the game, it just doesn't feel good to play with. There are 3 main changes here. First, this ability can now proc bands, which is important if you are using only mechanical skills on REX. Second, the projectile no longer completely halts your primary fire for a full second after use. Finally, the fruiting debuff has an additional offensive niche as a versatile execute (for context, freeze is a 30% execute and guillotine is 17% per stack). In exchange, the cooldown has been significantly increased, which also helps balance out the ridiculous burst healing that it can provide.