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it still means it's going to fire off far more often than not when you hit the power. Which is way more than it tends to go off now.

Lil hypothetical.

Let's say the Devs give you 3 things to place in the game. A story arc, a zone, and a taskforce. Can be anything, so don't worry much about specific content.

The main question is: Where would you put each of these? They can be blueside/redside/goldside, co-op, or even one for each (blue/red). But what level range would you add these to?

ya well they've been kicking out issues at a pretty steady rate since Freedom. about 3-5 months depending. Since last September we've had 21, 21.5 (november?), 22(early March), 23(Late May). So beta is likely to go soon with probably a late september/early october live date. Just a guess though.

We've been given "Soon". So very likely.

"You know what they say about big hands" "Fingerless gloves?" "....yes."

They came up with a rough outline for Rad Armor at the player summit but I know from the coffee talks some of it has changed up. For instance there was a self rez that doubled as a nuke, basically if you were dead it was a rez, if you were alive it was an EMP style nuke. But apparently it may be scrapped because they couldn't get it to work right (though they also said they may have fixed the problem, so it might come back).

So yeah, nothing super concrete, but it's in development.

Mmm, yeah I'll have to agree for Dark Astoria.

It's long. This is good since it's intended to be repeated. Lots of well done arcs with lots of variety.

Loads of flavor. Thief of midnight? The midnighters recognize you. First Ward veteran? Diabolique remembers you. Great story developments for a number of characters and plots and pushing the game world's story forward.

Epic. Totally epic.

Perfect atmosphere. It's really mostly just Dark Astoria as we knew it with a shiny new graveyard and some cleaned up set pieces, but it's -gorgeous-. From the constant night, the spooky music, the red war walls, the streets devoid of friendly life and teeming with all kinds of monsters and villains duking it out to the grotesque corruption of Moth Graveyard. It's honestly a favorite zone to just street sweep in and check out every nook and cranny.

Fun repeatables. Honestly all the repeatable missions lately have been pretty well done, with First Ward, Night Ward, and Dark Astoria. I like the contacts and most of the missions they offer are at least interesting (save for the Wards slight habit of hunt missions). So important for DA though being 'end game' content.

I'll be honest, I wasn't that thrilled with the end game until DA came along simply because 95% of it was wrapped up in team content. I've nothing against most of the end game taskforces (Screw Reichsman though) or any of the iTrials but it can be very boom or bust on a server like Victory so it was -very- nice to have something I could just do on my own time -whenever-. If things are slow i can always just go hunt threads or ouro arcs.

Cloaking Device + stealth unique in hover =

Yeah there's very few 'bad' choices, just go for what you feel boosts you the most or works best with your playstyle.

And the wonderful thing is: if you're not happy with your choice, you can just build up other options and switch out.

For the most part, go with whatever sounds good to you.

Interface - Reactive is the MOAR DAMAGE one and most common. But they all have some kind of damage proc and a secondary effect, so go with whatever you feel is the most useful.

Judgement - They're all good. Void is probably best for Melee range as the only PBAoE.

Lore - Cimerorans do lots of damage. Longbow do -regen. For the most part, pick your fav of the bunch. Most of them hit like trucks regardless.

Destiny - Ageless or Rebirth is probably going to be what you want.

Hybrid - Assault.

No but normal invention enhancements -can- be and they're attuned enhancements exactly like ATOs (which CAN be purchased at random via superpack) and overwhelming force.

All of them (Market bought IOs, ATOs, OF) are invention enhancements as far as the game is concerned, except they're attuned. And if it's attuned, it's usable by freemies.

Yeah attuned IOs are for freemies. In overwhelming force's case, it's because it's being offered through the summer event. For ATOs, freemies can purchase super packs. (Or if they happen to have Reward Merits unlocked and can buy them in-game).

Yeah the prevailing counter opinion seems to simply be "it's not enough" or "Most of these changes benefit non-Blasters more".

An Illusion/Rad controller is a great solo experience. Lots of power, lots of tricks, especially at the high end where you've got your whole tool box. It's very versatile and very safe.