[quote=@The Narrator]
I just feel like most ideas try to make their character super special, when many off the alchemists in fma (including Armstrong, the Elric brothers and their teacher) used the most basic form of alchemy. 
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I agree with you on that, but it's mostly like that because the simpler forms of alchemy are the best when it comes to combat. The complex uses, are made more for research purposes. Rock and soil transmutation is specially useful since the source materials are everywhere.