i16 open beta

That means we get to look at the new powers for Scrappers!

edit: Also, my first attempt at soloing +4 Carnies spawned for 8 with bosses was a massive failure. My DM/SR actually got held.

edit2: Just realized I stuck hasten on auto fire by mistake. Been playing my cold defender too much recently.

Oooo. Thorns, Metal, Crystal and Slate options for Spines! Those last two are a surprise, and quite cool looking.

I agree. I've already started planning my costume for my upcoming Spines/Elec.

Umbral is incredibly enthused about the color customization. The Dark Melee changes look like they could be awesome, especially when combining dark primary with light highlights.

Umbral feels more than a bit let down concerning the new APPs. Physical Perfection is a massive let down (though not that bad because it makes it even easier to go without Fitness). Nightfall even more so. Melt Armor was expected but, as similarly expected, the actual numbers are complete rubbish.

Just logged in, looking forward to getting rid of green regeneration.

Edit: Kind of disappointed I can't get rid of yellow hasten.

I know of someone who is going to try Dark Watcher's arc set to +4 and 8-people as soon as I get home...

Where can I read about the new APPs, or can you read about them yet, I'm downloading test for the first time cause with this issue, I really can't wait to see what they are.

O snap they have a no FX option for Regeneration!!!!!!

Edit: Dark Regeneration looks wicked

can you give a eu guy some screens of the spines customs?

Ok, since Test is down this gives me the opportunity to reflect on my limited experiences.

Power Customization: Awesome. Defied all my expectations with the breadth of options. The new Spines are clinically ill. Being able to turn off power effects for various toggles is very nice. We can all bid a fond farewell to pink pom-poms of doom. RWZ raids are gonna be sicknasty (in a good way).

New Difficulty Options: Unbelievably stupendous, grandiose and in all other respects incredible. Running 8-man missions solo is so incomparably outstanding I'm going to need to consult a thesaurus to replenish my badly depleted repertoire of superlatives.

I can't get in

Edit: server back up. I'm in

Did Electric Armor get that heal power?

I love how you can tint the MA kicks/punches red so it actually looks like you're HURTING your oponent pretty bad with a lovely splash of blood =)

Dark Melee turned red. Looks like blood magic.

Yes, /elec's conserve power was turned into energize. I don't find that it helps the set enough.

I am with Umbral. Nightfall is terrible. For being cones and requiring two powers to match Fireball in power, the AoEs in Dark Mastery are disappointing, at best. And here I was hoping for a reason to go Dark/Shield/Dark instead of Dark/Shield/Fire...

Or am I missing an angle that makes NF and TT more even versus FB?

With Defenders if you load the two cones with Procs then it becomes the best AoE set for defenders. Not sure if that translates to Scrappers at all, just throwing it out there.

Personally I'm so used to having such crappy options that I plan almost all of my Scrappers only taking one power from the epics.