Is it here?

It's 10:58 central time. I just tried to log into the game... I had a long download, then I'm locked out of my server for Dev Testing. So I figured, heck.. i'm home from work. let's build a toon... and lookie there.. it's the I16 charictor building screen.

Yea, Im getting the hefty DL as well

:edit: Yep, looking like its here

Oh hey that's true it IS the i16 building screen

Very cool!

City of Colors is go >.>

blasted internal testing..

Time to play folks

Time to taste the rainbow.

Reminder to self...
Do not put max difficulty on a bank mish..
GW could appear at lvl 54... ;-)

In, claws/SR brute rolled, and rolling

Alright. Time to blow some inf on costumes.

What else?

Oh, I rolled two new toons, claw/wp and katana/sr, and now they have standing respecs. I'll feel free to screw up their pool powers by accident now.

Just ran a test on my Kat/Inv scrapper, +4/8 freaks and I have to say (as someone who didn't try this on test)...


A W E S O M E!

Great way to test builds, increase challenge and whatnot. I think the two big features in this issue, power customization and new difficulty settings, take things to a whole new level of awesome.

Went home for my break and so it is... Nagashi (DB/ela scrapper on virtue) and Elexica (elm/regen scrapper on protector) are in outbreak waiting to be sent out to learn the mystic art of "Flipping Out and Killing". I have a lot of stuff to do that will keep me busy before I even get to that. I have black flames to make, /regen auras to make not look ugly or non existant, mixed power sets to color match, respecs to do... Oh my. I'm excited! 6:15pm central need to hurry up and get here!

I love, LOVE LOVE LOVE, the new difficulty slider. I like it more then power customization lol.

The difficulty slider and powerset proliferation make I16 the first issue I've actually enjoyed (other than the insanely fast leveling the MA provided) since I12 dropped. Of my current characters, only my Spines/Fire (needs to pick up Tough and trying to figure out how to fit in an APP AoE as well), Stone/Elec Brute (needs to pick up Energize), and Arch/EM Blaster (need to move one stinkin slot) need respecs.

With the power customizations, can we get rid of all auras?

So that, say, my badasses don't sparkle?

So I set my difficulty at +3 (wasn't ready to go all the way on my first try), team size to 8, grabbed a CoT radio mission... and I'm fighting giant level 53 all-purple giant spawns with 2-3 bosses each, at level 49 (so that's actually +4 on some groups).

...it's almost like every spawn group in a mission is a mini-RWZ challenge. ^_^

Also, I'm doing just fine. Not blasting through the mission, but not really having to employ strategy yet either. I do have to eat my inspirations, for once!

Fiddled with my power colors and I'm playing +2x4 for now on my L38 Katana/Dark. Mayhems are trouble. Got killed once by a DoT from the named boss after she was defeated with no greens left. Kind of cool, actually. Also ran out of time after a couple missions. Otherwise doing OK with inspirations. I do need to fix my endurance situation now that fights are lasting longer.

I did get my rear end almost handed to me doing +4/x8 on my Elec/WP Brute when I ran a mission of Carnies. It wasn't too bad until I had two Dark Servants dropped on my rear end. Holy crap do to-hit debuffs SUCK!

Yeah, even +3/8 was no cakewalk. I died once, and I found myself low on endurance after each long fight (which I had thought wasn't a problem for me anymore).

Also: I like MA animations as they are, but since you can do each costume different I went with punch animations for one costume. Can't change Dragon's Tail or Crane Kick, but the mix of punches and kicks is actually quite nice. ^_^

I turned it down to +2/8 man spawn... I think that's just about perfect for me, lots of spawns, not too tough. Most of the time I just like killing tons of enemies. When I want a real challenge I can turn it up again.

Anyone notice the nice little QoL addition to your status bar post-50?


Totally not Scrapper-Based, but when you have 50 scrappers to log into...I suppose that counted as a directive for coming here to mention it because...of all the things I'm toying with, this is one of the things that I'm strangely happy with the most.

With my level 45 BS/SD scrapper I jumped on and tried various settings on the difficulty slider. I finally settled on +2/+6 (I'm not quite softcapped for defense yet, attack chain isn't exactly as smooth as I'd like, and the blue bar was getting taxed), but quickly ran into the first big problem with the new super solo mode. I was doing one of Gaussians missions in the RWZ and was supposed to join Lady Grey in springing a trap on some rogue Vangaurders. I found and rescued her no problem, then in the ensueing ambush I was blowing through a full room of baddies with no problems then got the loading screen. Lady Grey didn't last a minute, she must not be as uber as I. =(