Effect of Issue 20?

What will be the effect of Issue 20 on the usefulness of particular ATs and powersets on PVE teams?

What feature of I20 are you specifically thinking will change anything?

I don't see it changing things much. The Incarnate raids / trials / whatever they're calling them may have certain ATs / power sets that work well or that don't work but I don't expect them to be "X powerset is required to win" fights. And anyway, nothing in the rest of the game will really change other than the addition of another Incarnate slot which appears to be a long recharge nuke (based on rumors at least) rather than something that actually affects general gameplay. So really I don't see it making any more difference than adding a couple of new TFs does.

Here's my predictions:

1. Blasters will be overshadowed almost completely by Controllers, or indeed any powerset capable of making tapioca pudding, thanks to the requirements of the Incarnate Chef trial.

2. Likewise in that same trial, Plant doms and controllers will be rendered useless due to the curiously specific Salad Shooter attachment.

3. Scranklastfendruptrollers will be the only multipurpose builds capable of handling the requirements of the Philby the Wonder Squid trial, because they're the only name Philby will be unable to pronounce so that he chokes on his tongue and dies.

4. No one will ever love you.

5. In a note completely unrelated to point #2, cucumber sandwiches are being served in Pocket D.

Real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!

Here's my predictions for i20

The two new workout emotes and one new running emote will change everything you know about ERP.

The new String Bind system will make Duel Blades and Atlas Park dance-offs easier and more exciting than ever.

With Skirts getting ported to male characters, i will never look up again.

The changes to Illusion are guaranteed to uncork a poop storm on the controller forums. Can't say I'm excited about them myself.

The first glimpse of the Moonbase Theta Trial :happy clap:

New sonic auras will keep me from ever turning my speakers on in Atlas ever again.

The new "mega-sword" costume options will ensure a rash of Cloud and Pyramid Head wannabes. Already camping the name "Ponzi Head" on Freedom.

When I20 goes live, humanity will make contact with aliens, and together you'll build a cool spaceship and be made a intergalactic secret agent in pursuit of a rogue agent who wants to bring back a ancient alien race of killer lobster spaceship robots from beyond the galaxy who will eat everyone. You'll be trained by an ancient master of mystical space powers and given a laser sword to fight this rogue agent who is later revealed to be your father and also your sister. Even if you're a robot or a time traveller who became his own father due to timey whimey ball stuff.

From there, Earth will be destroyed by the robots and you'll spend the next several story arcs running away from the killer robots on the only ship left with the remains of humanity, until you get shot through a wormhole to a distant part of the universe and end up on a living ship full of Escaped Prisoners from the Zig. They're not happy with you either. But that's the end of the arc until i21.

People will begin speculating on the effect of issue 21 and crying doom about that

Isn't I20 the 1st week of April WST?

Music Man reference? "RAGTIME! Shameless music, that'll drag your son, your daughter down into the arms of a jungle animal instinct. MASSTERIA!"

The Earth will swing out of its orbit and plunge into the sun, most likely.