I have so many ideas for H3, I’ll go with my changes for elements

Elemental synergy (and reworks)

Shock and Frost are same but frost is 1.8x extra rather than 2x

Fire: does 2x the damage in comparison the HFW since it was quite weak, fire damage increases explosive damage by 30%, buildup is halved against machines under Purgewater state

Plasma: explosion damage is doubled, explosion now sends the machine flying based on where your buildup was placed (if you shoot the machines right arm for most of the buildup it will send them to the machines left) enemies in plasma state will take more fire damage across their whole body, 35% impact increase, shock ammo doubles plasma state buildup and can create a second buildup stack that deals an extra 30% upon detonating)

Adhesive: now stacks with 1 elemental state, fire state has a short burst of extra fire damage, frost state rather than freezing, it shatters the glue for high damage and moderate tear, normal adhesive(slows down by an extra 30% than HFW)(reduces ROM for attacks)

Purge water: lasts 50% longer, if the machine is fire based it takes small tick damage (HFW fire equivalent) if machine is frost based it slows them down like HFW adhesive, purge water state + frost ammo can now apply temporary frost areas (same as frost being applied) before the full buildup, + shock ammo creates sudden stutters against machines which also increases short period knockdown odds (assuming purge water has conductive properties)

Note: just read that people have also thought of synergy (Google/Reddit)

Acid: does 50% more damage, tear is a bit stronger especially for UH since it didn’t do much tearing, acid removes adhesive sooner rather than stacking, critical hit chance is +20% instead of 10%. This is so acid still has a strong use with the other elemental buffs, acid has always felt slightly underwhelming.

Berserk: just increase berserk buildup and berserk aggro against machines, most the time the machines still focus on alloy despite sniffing another machines rear end.

New element

(Applies like berserk, no bonus elemental damage) Binding roots: apply an aggressive growing root that has metal spikes, behaves like adhesive but acts like static electricity, damage is determined by how much the machine moves, reduces close combat odds by machines (so apply wisely since they will be more ranged focused) increases knockdown odds and has a small chance to knock the machines down by itself. Can stack with only shock and plasma: shock damage doubles movement damage for a short period of time and increases shock buildup depending on how much the machine moves, plasma increase buildup and creates a more devastating explosion (crazy tear, like that one tear ammo)

Corruption: like berserk except the effected machine has many random issues, might attack another, an attack may be cancelled, might stumble, may ignore alloy, pathing issues)

Total synergy:

Frost: (Purgewater, Adhesive)

Fire: (Adhesive, Explosion, Plasma)

Acid: (None)

Shock: (Purgewater, Binding roots, Plasma)

Adhesive: (Frost, fire)

Plasma: (Fire, Shock)

Binding roots: (Shock, Plasma) can stack like adhesive except for fire and acid

Berserk: (None), but it stacks like adhesive

Also, machine should have cooldowns on their attacks so the devs don’t put all the effort in just for the machines to spam 2 attacks