Nature Affinity First Look

Here ya go.

This is just a live, first impressions vid while looking at the set in the creator, for those who haven't checked it out for themselves. No doubt I make erroneous assumptions during it.

EDIT: Part two gameplay at 22. This isn't intended for anything outside of experimentation, and is not meant to show the strength of the set beyond initial SOs and all 3 of us were not trying to show skill.

Thanks for the insights!

I think you are right that the toggles appear to be fairly endurance heavy but also they have a lot of abilities with long recharges. I wonder how 'active' the set feels when played?

*wants my Plant/Nature Controller already!*

Well I'll tell ya one thing: seeing mushrooms infect a whole group of enemies made me lol.

The location-based toggle ticks far too slow for the end cost if you ask me. I've got mine up to level 20 at the moment.

That's a lot of busy visuals. For the most part I like it, but I wonder if there will be any options to tone it down a little bit.

Ooh I'm liking what I'm seeing.

Another set that benefits the caster as much as their allies, good stuff.

The toggles may look expensive, but since that Lifegiving Spores apparently buffs you as well as other people, it should, at the very least, mitigate its own End cost; and with End Mod slotted in, who knows, might mitigate them all? If that's a 1 END/Second buff it certainly would. (Not to mention the toggle costs are in-line with other sets such as Rad, so they aren't really pricey, there's just a lot of em)

Wow...I hope I never have to team with someone who has this set.

The visual FX are so far over the top.

Yeah that's a good point, and you can toss end cost in there. I could still see 6 slotting it and putting a heal in it too.

Part 2 is up.

Part of me is wishing the set had Earth Control-eqsue alternate animations that have different themes. Like Earth has crystal and lava alternate looks, I'd have loved this set to have had flower and fruit alternate looks.

Could you do a quick vid for BioArm too Jay?

Nature Affinity looks nice, Might go with Demon/NA.

Note about part 2: That was me(Spines/Sym) and my bro you played with. Since you 'cut' the vid short of what i did, i'll say im sorry for the team wipe that happened, i was messing with bro and forgot about you till it was too late.

What happened was that he rushed forward and i headed right later on in the mission, i got a good laugh out of Bro(Lv6 or so, Staff/Sym) when he panicked when i told him to have fun with his mob.

I'd love to pair this with water blasting, but I doubt they'll come out at the same time and I doubt I'll have the willpower to wait for them both.

Oh well, two water blasters are better than one.

Looks to be a bit of an end hog of a set, but I'll reserve judgement on that until I get to play it

The most interesting bit to me was Regrowth.

I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, but it appears to be using the Vorpal Judgement targeting mechanism, in that it's a cone with a Target:self, so it'll fire wherever the camera's aimed...

That could make life... 'interesting' in more hectic environments.