I'll be damned

- The new pet choices are Arachnos, Carnival of Shadows, Cimeroran, , Longbow, Nemesis, Phantoms, Polar Lights, Robotic Drones, Rularuu, Rikti, Storm Elementals, and Vanguard.


Holy !@#$. Choice overload? Now I don't know which one to choose!

Group Area Buffs?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HOLY !@#$ x 100000


I am so going to play my Ninja/FF again. Now I only need to click once so it's less stressful if they die.


Oh my, I may just make my very first Kinetic because of this. I can't wait. I somehow think aoe Speed Boost is kinda... overpowered? Part of the trade off of having great speed boost is that you need to keep reapplying. It's a pain but it's worth it. Now that they make it AoE, I wonder if the recharge/endurance/value are changed as well?

The AoE buffs is a godsent. I have a Bots/FF MM and on it I only buff my bots at times because of how much I need to keep track of. This will let me set it and forget it.

That's some really good QoL.

Woot now it will be so much easier to mess with costume contests with ice shields.

I'm definitely looking forward to this buff; I'm one of the people who finds the constant buff-buff-buff-buff routine maddening. I can typically play my Bots/FF only a short time before having to quit out of aggravation.

If he is right, and it isn't going to affect the end/recharge, then that ends up being a whole bunch of dps for the server to handle, no? It takes a looong time to buff a league with both ice shields, for example. Now you can blast away much more.

Tad bit upset, I chose to make the Very Rare Clockwork pets.

QoL for most, nerf for me. I used to keep shields up *and* blast/debuff without a trouble, now I will have to either stick glued to the team (ugh) or buff significantly less people, even if the recharge stays the same - and I'm doubtful it will.

Complain about teeth gnashing all you want, this change will hurt my performance, so I feel justified in not being doubleplussed about it. I can understand why it was done - not only the current mechanics of buffing annoy a fair amount of people, but for those of us who could buff we're probably getting more out of the powers than what was intended. Making it AoE will even it out.

Hmm... There's a political statement to be made here.

Save for that, everything else ranges from cool to awesome, with the possible exception of the vouchers. One of the cool things of the Incarnate system is that you had to play the character you wanted to incarnate, rather than use your most powerful character to farm for others. It brought a bit more diversity to trials. If the conversion rate with vouchers is too good, this might hurt that diversity. If it's not good enough, the feature will be useless. This is going to be tricky to balance.

That's reassuring, Uber. I still think I'm going to be hurt in pure buffing power with this change, because typically I buffed people at maximum range with my shields (80 feet) while using the downwards momentum of a long jump to not lose any time. Add to that I play with 200-300ms ping, sometimes get extra "red spike hell" lag for days after patches, and play on a computer that occasionally slowdowns, and this makes catching people in a PBAoE, even a 30 feet one, much harder than simply clicking on their name.

Admittedly, I will get to blast even more than I do now, and that's something positive. I don't want to complain as much as explain my reasons for not being thrilled with this change. Ultimately I get that the needs of many outweigh the needs of a few, and all that, and I guess I'm going to get buffed more by other people who didn't buff as much because they didn't like it, so that's another plus.