What?!? No Blockbuster Feedback Thread?

Just ran it on my troller who's 30, so the leveling thing wasn't such an issue. No prob with TPing back to the lobby. I died like 4 times during the arena, thankfully a team member had a revive power! Didn't get the proc though. :/

I like the idea of the holiday events mixing things up a bit like the new Halloween one does. I can foresee running this a few times, maybe more if I get around to looking at some of my other toons. The cool-down for earning the IO (or whatever you'd call them) is sort of sad, but I don't mind alting all over the place.

I have been enjoying the event. I did it six times last night with four characters, trying different roles in the Casino Heist and figuring out the best monkey- and ninja-fighting techniques. Many people seemed unwilling to read/use the notes on their roles or the crowd favor power, but I suspect people will gain expertise with time, or give up angrily after refusing to read the directions.

Of my four IOs, I have not seen the proc yet. Not sure what character I have that would slot the set. It does have a ranged defense bonus that could be slotted in a ranged AoE, so I'm sure I have a Defender or Corruptor that would use it.

Most of my characters can exemplar to 29 seemlessly, so I'm not bothered by that. I actually LIKE exemplaring because incarnate powers make all the 45+ content feel like easy mode. One of my teammates in one run complained repeatedly that he didn't have a useful attack chain at 29th level, but other than that, nobody seemed to object too much to the auto-exemplaring.

Twice during six runs, I was the only one teleported back to the safe house. All my characters have Recall Friend and were able to summon the rest of the team before the AV stage, though it did seem odd that the only guy on the team with Recall Friend was the one that was teleported back.

My slow brain just figured out I could actually choose my role in the Casino Heist... for the longest I thought I was getting a long string of Hackers at random. Must've subconsciously gravitated towards the same poster numerous times.

Yogi - if you chose last, you got what was left...

Perfect Grifter.

I had that role four or five times last night and was never able to figure out the right things to say to get the Perfect Grifter badger. Reading through the forums, it looks like the badge requires some combination of flirting and saying something crass.

This is a big problem for me. As a female player, playing androphilic characters, I'm not going to choose to make my characters flirt with a female NPC. But even if I did (and I tried that once since I thought I'd exhausted the other trees), I'm definitely NOT going to choose 'say something crass'.

The designers need to take this one back to the drawing board. Who is this event written for? Adam Sandler? The second Grifter objective can be satisfied by choosing any one of the initial three branches. The first objective needs to be the same.

This is a misstep. And a pretty misogynistic one, at that. I hope I missed an alternative for getting the badge.

No kidding, Sherlock. My complaint is that the content itself is generated for a male/gynephelic audience. There's nothing to prep me or my character that even rationalizes why I have to flirt and say crass things to get the best outcome (assuming I didn't miss an alternative solution, in which case my complaint is nulled).

That is bad design. You think my POV is trivial. So does the commentator after you.

Obviously the role I'm *supposed* to be playing is "Male gamer playing an MMO." Gotcha!

Question about how Overwhelming Force works. I slotted it into Lightning Field, and the results... well, I'm not sure if it's working. The proc is firing, because the combat logs tell me it is, but there's no effect. Nobody falls down or is knocked down or anything when the logs say "Overwhelming Force knocks Frost Sorceress from their feet!"

The "Gladiator" section is a lot of fun -- nothing fancy, just a cool map and a variety of enemies. The badges take a little bit of care and coordination, without being ridiculous.

The "Casino" section is an interesting idea, but the timer ruined it for me. For the talky bits, I felt like I didn't have time to really think about what the NPCs were saying and try to work out the proper responses...I just had to click randomly and hope I got lucky. So what should have been an interesting puzzle just became trial-and-error.