Agent White

If it's an invasion, give us a badge, and a temp power to go with it. Something that's worthwhile to use. Like a single use Coralax summon or.. something.

Or a mako shoulder plushie. <3

Because when I23 was announced, Night Ward was initially announced as a 30-35 zone. And it is, really. In the sense that mobs are 30-35. But some time during beta they decided to list it as 30-39 and opened up the Story arc contacts and the repeatables to be 30-39.

So, Mistress Maria is 30 - 39
Montague, Ward, Bedwr, and Magician are 31 - 39
Atherton Cromwell and Sir Lionel are 30 - 39
Fireball, Trilogy, and Archmage Hellewise are 30 - 50
The Zone Mobs are 30 - 35

Yeah, I agree there. Put the 'Clockword Lord' as the villain of Part 1, then part 2 is the hunt for the king.

I wouldn't mind -one- kill all, two maaaybe (like, 1 per part) but that's the limit.

I was actually quite fortunate in that the whole team aside from myself were water blast ATs so the mass amount of AoE helped clear the maps. We managed to do it in an hour and 44 minutes, but I understand on more ST oriented teams it can go up to 3 hours. Yuck.

The big reason they don't just announce it -now- is because the moment they announce it is the moment players start hounding them for why it isn't released right NOW. They do have a release schedule they try to stick to, teasing stuff early is a good way to build excitement and it gives us something to tide us over with until the big meal of info followed, eventually, with the release (or at least beta).

So I've heard all the horror stories. The grueling slog. Etc. Someone happened to be open for one and I'd eventually like to start earning that nice shiny accolade for my heroes, several of whom are missing just Synapse or usually Synapse and Manticore.

Now I don't want to say it's bad design, because that would imply that I assume it was designed.

But yeah. If it weren't for the constant repitition of kill alls it would be an ok lil task force. What a shame the kill alls take up over half of the damn thing.

And back when the big zone revamp panel was being discussed I remember distinctly one of the devs saying they didn't want to do a story arc centering on the clockwork because the story was tied up in this TF. Yeah that's great. For the team leader. For the other 7 of us it's just 'run, do this, kill all, kill all, kill all, run run run kill kill kill". No story. Just, oh hey, giant monster. and then the clockwork king. It's so bad it's a joke.

So yeah. Revamp Synapse. Add in a fancy cut scene or something. Do what was done with Positron and Penny Yin, because those are actually pretty fun now.

I vote Nemesis. He's not only capable of murdering millions of people for his goals but he's also racist.

I'm fine with it. It's still a big damage attack and it means I'll be able to fit it into my attack rotation as a standard use attack instead of a panic button or having to prep to crash and recover asap to take advantage of the moment of safety.

Like, Electric Blast now becomes completely capable of being a good sapping set now that it will be able to utilize thunderous blast against groups.

It means my nuke now becomes an every spawn or every other spawn attack instead of 'saving it for the boss mob at the end' or 'the panic button' etc.

I am super happy with the changes. I cannot wait for Thunderous Blast to find its way into my attack chain rotation because it's an -amazing- sapping power. That I can now use it as an actual AoE and not a ST against lone bosses thrills me to no end. I'll be able fire my nuke and follow it up with short circuit and be nice and safe while my enemies suck wind (and more zappiness).

Hail of Bullets just spoiled me on crashless nukes and I'm giddy that my other ranged set characters will get that same strength.

how did this thread get so derailed going from moaning about nonexistant and unnanounced "nerfs" to trying to pin down how a fictional characters fits into our fictional game universe?

They said they'd be announcing something tomorrow. Maybe the I24 preview page?