Blood_Beret

I have ran both.
Only Minor spoilers.

Kal - I thought was 4 out 5 stars.
1. Good Story, nothing makes you feel like Villain or Rogues like holding a Wizards daughters Hostage and forcing him to help you.

2. Good mix of Good/Bad Guys as in Groups. CoT, Midnighters, Warriors.

3. Some new and old faces, some old getting to see some action.

The only real bad part, was the use of a Bot MM's Pets as an enemy group in last mission.


Admiral Sutter 1 out 5 stars
Long drawn out missions.

1. Seemed like they took Tin Mage TF can crossed it with Apex and made it lower level.

2. On the first mission they name 2 ships, I did not see any markings on the ships to indicted which was which.

3. Warworks and IDF everywhere with a few Skyraiders spread out.

4. Good thing... the Preatorian versions of Faultline and Fussionette and their cutscene. FYI Gender swapped.

I was tried /Command /Commands and a few others. I could not remember that one either....

Thanks

Ancient Spirits of Evil....



of course it's Mumra

Did I miss the memo?

The Patch notes don't include any of the command line commands and neither does (h) help.

I can invite them to my team and move them to another team through the command line the old /i way.

Never underestimate MMs here, other ATs have access to the sets too.

Trick Arrow has the Oil Slick and Glue arrow these work on the minions. While the pets pound them. (Controllers and Doms Pets too)

Dark has Tar Patch, slows and debuffs while pets attack

Traps has Caltrops, Poison trap for minions, Trip Mines and Acid Mortars for minions, lts, and bosses. (Defenders and Corruptors also) Device Blasters have Caltrops and Trip Mines also. Plus they can get early hits and AoE attacks in to damage all of them.

I think Storm has a Sleet like power(Knockdown and minor DoT), Cold Dominations Corr/Def/Controllers)

Soft Control powers at the spawn point keep the minions there so they can be handled by those with less damage.

The Bosses and Lts, should be up to all the damage types. I know melee gets the short end of the stick here, but if they can get them as they come out the higher damage longer animation attacks first are best. then proceeds with the faster animation attacks for constant damage. Blaster and Corr are good here too, as Range is better for moving targets.

1. Envenomed Daggers, Buy them on the BM craft some. They come in handy. (they have -regen)

2. Have a debuffer, The Dark and Kin heals both have a -regen component, Rads have a -regen power, Traps have the best one Poison Trap has a -1000% regen. I am sure there are others, but there is a start.

let's see... the 2 big issues probably being addressed are the Global & Email and The Trials kick eveyone on out and breaking the League Bugs.

I don't miss the days when Maintenance was almost every weekday.

I kind of like new trials, it is a change of pace. It adds a little spice to the game. But I do agree I hope they don't over do it. Because then it becomes a norm, and that could be bad.

Lambda I think is best option, 1 full team min. but a max of 2. Good for that odd time when there are a couple more people than a full team that want in.

Tip:
After figuring out the path you want to go, use note pad to list what you need for the next tier(s) (what rares and very rares you need for the future incase you get those options for trila completion)

I made this as I was getting close to unlocking my Interface(at the time I did noit think about the rare, until I got the option last night)...

1. Many people have mentioned the "Trial Crash" ie everyone booted from the League and kicked out of the trial. Apparently this was not an issue on the Beta server and is something new. I have only experienced it once.

2. The TF/SF. I liked Mortimer Kal SF but did not care for Admiral Sutters TF. The Hero stuff appears to be a clone of Apex/Tin Mage for lower levels. But the story for both were pretty good. I really did not see anything wrong with either, except for the fact it may be a little to difficult for a PUG team of lvl 20's.

3. There the door, don't let it hit you on the way out.

Here's a coulple of things from the patch notes about Astraland Empyrain Merits that some may have missed.

If everything had astral merits, they would be worthless. If they were tied to a badge, and you could only get it once, then that's different.

I'd like to say I have seen more successful runs on these 2 trials than I did in the first week of CoP. I have had 2 successful runs on both trials.

Also I'd like to say I loved the new SF. Not sure a team of 20's could handle it, but it was awesome. The Warriors finally get used in an SF. No other spoilers.

The new TF, I thought it was kind of blah... It reminded me too much of Tin Mage and Apex but for lower levels.

Now to check to see if HeroStats has an update so I can update my badges.

Happened on one of our runs this morning. I'd rather not talk about our first 2 attempts.... lets just say eveyone was under 10% Judgement at that point. THe 3rd run it borked, and the 4the run We won...

The Synchronized badge gives one. We pulled it off and wasn't even trying.