Agent White

Honestly I feel completely the opposite. Numina I find pretty easy to zip past. The first couple missions are pretty easy to stealth and then since pretty much every hunt is against grey cons you just split up the party, you can knock through them all in a few minutes, then the last 2 instances which are easy. The zone events are the only problem and they're not that frequent.

And no one is saying Synapse is -hard-, it's simply that it's extremely tedious. "Zipping" through most of the other TFs means cutting them down to like 30-50 minutes, depending. 'Zipping' Synapse still averages 90 minutes.

As for Manti, yeah. Mechanically I don't have any problem with it, it's got a pretty decent mix of missions and actually feels like I have to run around to do different objectives without tossing the same thing at me. I do agree though that storywise it feels like kind of a failure on the heroes part to really accomplish anything.

That's assuming that the bug wasn't the associated level to begin with instead of 'revealing' it.

It's not Knockback, it's KnockDOWN. It's only turning into Knockback when you pair it with the Overwhelming Force proc because the 2 knockdowns are combining.

Yeah that's fair. I'm not saying that the fixes and QoL changes aren't happening or aren't going to be a focus. But if they're in there with like 2 zone revamps, the follow on to the Drowning in Blood Trial, like 3 new incarnate arcs or something, a new pair of red/blue taskforces, etc, the 'focus' may seem more 'new' than 'fix'.

Even if the perception is far above what it actually it, it's still above what standard low level content is.

I don't have the numbers, but just going off personal experience playing between the three sides, the mobs just in general feel harder. I've been working on a Kinetic Melee/Superior Reflexes scrapper and I've really been regretting taking her through Praetoria as a starting area. Running the Imperial City Power missions, I just hit into missions where I get -curbstomped- by resistance mobs, white and yellow conning minions can work me down pretty steadily. In standard blue/redside content that usually happens when I get bigger mobs on me. Praetoria? it can be as low as a couple minions or even -one- lieutenant.

Again it's just subjective feedback based on personal experience but I've run through Praetoria on a handful of characters and it can be just a slog, which is something I can't say for 'normal' content. At least not in the same way. Where the lower levels the slog is just in leveling and finding worthwhile content to do. In praetoria individual missions are a slog. I go from mob to mob and it's kind of a big battle each time, if I don't have insps on hand I can faceplant, sometimes multiple times in a mission. usually having to hit Rest for me is after multiple mobs have just worn me down. Praetoria, it's usually much more frequently between mobs, sometimes even just -waiting- for Rest to come back up before I even think about it. I haven't even considered turning bosses on for this character, it doesn't seem worth the pain until I get more powers and SOs and out of the 1-20 space.

So it might not be as bad as people think, but it still feels bad enough to be frustrating.

She and pretty much -most- Superheroes don't fit a single AT mold. Especially characters like Ivy who, if they were a character would have Plant Control, Thorn assault, Poison, AND Nature Affinity.

Honestly I think it's silly to try assigning AT roles to heroes when so many of our own signature characters break them.

Signature TFs are designed so things spawn at max level, not min. I... have never understood the logic behind it, but that's not a bug.

They do, they're called Mayhem missions

Just because -you- didn't invent it doesn't mean it's not an invention.

Er, I wouldn't say that before they toss up the preview. We don't actually know what the focus of I24 is. It's apparently a HUGE issue. We know what they've teased out, but the whole 'fix all' thing was just an offhand joke

The problem is, there's very few ways to spin it that it would make sense or wouldn't involve adding villain content blueside and hero content redside. And trust me, rogues and vigilantes have shown that just getting to play tourist is a very one trick pony if you don't have friends on the other side to play with.

You mean like they've been doing since Freedom? Every major issue has fixed bugs, included quality of life improvements, AND had new shinies. It's not an either/or deal, the Devs do both.

It was confirmed in the video, they work like epic pools. T1/T2 powers are available from the get go, T3/T4 powers require 1 power pick, and T5 requires 2 picks.

And by 'without tough' I meant you can pick Weave with only 1 power picked instead of 2 as it requires now.

Field Medic is the power. And yes. It reduces your resistance to ANY heals on you, whether it's someone else healing you or yourself. The caveat is that it doesn't affect your regeneration or any buffs to it.