Lazarillo

That is slightly less "titanic", then I'd expected from the set, and a fairly mean tease anyway unless they plan to add two new powersets in a three week period, but cool to see.

The costume change emote sounds great for a few of my characters, really.
Guess we'll see how it plays out.

For what it's worth, I have found a workaround to this, assuming you're using a PC: hold down the Windows button before you hit quit. Once the timer starts, release the button, and the taskbar will pop-up, leaving the quit timer ticking down in the background.

But yeah, it'd be nice if it just, y'know, worked without a workaround.

In the past, when they've changed what sets a power will take, it didn't affect enhancements already in the power, it just meant that upon the next respec, for example, you could no longer use them. A freespec would be nice in that situation, but probably not necessary.

Yeah, somebody done didn't read up on Malta before they started adding them to every last mission they could. Roy Cooling is particularly bad, especially since they could basically just replace Malta with Nemesis and more or less make it work (though given the level range, Roy still shouldn't just be accepting Nemesis as being around, any more than he's like "oh, yeah, so these Malta guys...").

Maelstrom, at least, is sorta maybe justifiable, since Malta has designs on Praetoria, and perhaps he's convinced them that he's a double agent when he's actually a triple (or maybe he really is just a double!). Or maybe, somewhat more likely, it's the same as all the other egregious uses of an organization that's supposed to be secretive, and, to channel Venture a bit, it's just one of those situations where they just didn't care.

For the people having trouble with the EB, what are you doing about the minions he has around him? Their self-destruct is what heals him, but if you clear them all away first, he shouldn't be healing, based on what I've seen.

I approached things as a Defender, but went Radiation Blast, and the sets definitely have a synergy that I could see working for Corruptors too. Time's Juncture + Irradiate makes me giggle. The set just generally plays like a tank unless/until I get mezzed, at which point it plays like a trip from the hospital. But those moments are reasonably few and far between.

On the one hand, I'd like to see more new power animations and a greater variety of available animations more or less across the board, even if that means fewer new powersets.

On the other hand, in the last round of new animations that was done for the various blast sets, most of the animations were frankly pretty underwhelming, so I'm not sure such a thing would be as worthwhile in practice as I'd like it to be in theory..