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peterconnorfirst
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Anybody found anything?
No Recluse, no Inspirational Leader, no Plasmonic Leech, no Invincibility and no… Kemocite.
From first look the new Box appears to be what it is. A cool release with some interesting but hardly any game breaking or controversial stuff in it.
What do you guys think?
- Has Cryptic learned from past releases?
- Am I missing something?
- How do you like the new stuff and what do you plan on getting?
Please discuss and thanks for participating in advance.
Edit: Feel also free to include the new lobi stuff in the discussion.
No Recluse, no Inspirational Leader, no Plasmonic Leech, no Invincibility and no… Kemocite.
From first look the new Box appears to be what it is. A cool release with some interesting but hardly any game breaking or controversial stuff in it.
What do you guys think?
- Has Cryptic learned from past releases?
- Am I missing something?
- How do you like the new stuff and what do you plan on getting?
Please discuss and thanks for participating in advance.
Edit: Feel also free to include the new lobi stuff in the discussion.
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I think all the Herald stuff looks silly (in my personal opinion) - looks more like something Jyggalag cooked up. So I don't plan to get anything, but to each their own.
Those free T5 ships were a very nice surprise however, so kudos to Cryptic for that.
Yea I had one pug with that thingy in the new ground queue yesterday.
Of course bring up new lobi stuff as well for this discussion. I was lazy not to ad it to the OP.
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Yeah.
And a 5/1 Raider is a new extreme we haven't seen before. Of course, since we have 5/3 ships it might seem irrelevant. But it's a ship that has a commander Tac and the rest of the slots are all universal - which is pretty much how probably anyone in the game would build an all-universal slots Bird of Prey, too.
Yeah, probably.
Haven't seen the herald AP weapons as of now but a proc that enhances weapon damage for a couple seconds sounds pretty powerful, especially if it also buffs crits even more.
Already heard some early reviews on the new Antiproton weapons in the DPS channel (someone already had epic versions of the beams
Seems like from what little I've actually looked at, there's a lot of +DMG stuff going on with the new gear etc.
We shall see how all this plays out, but my first impression on viewing some of the gear, was "Is all this Power/+DMG really necessary ?"
It's not, it's really not needed, but it's here, so I guess we try an adapt and make use of what we can.
But yeah, my first impression, there seems to be ALOT of power creep here.
IMO my Nicor is still the best beam boat ever made. 8 guns, 5 tac consoles, room for APO3, BFAW3, EPtW3, two A2B1, and kemocite. I love it, I just wish I could get either the engineer seat or universal seat a pilot spec. What are you supposed to do with two ensign engineer powers???
Yeah I have ET1. I don't want to use another emergency power because it puts EPtW3 on a 15 second cooldown when I use it.
I think I looked at unstable warp bubble once and decided it was TRIBBLE. I will take another look at it, but I'm not convinced.
That was my reaction at first as well.
The new raider still has some very interesting aspects for not- average BFAW boats. I could imagine cannons builds work perfectly with it and, like @mustrumridcully0 pointed out, looks incredibly flexible as far as the boff seats go. Heralds also seem to like intel boff powers.
As for your described Nicor, yea new releases really have big shoes to fill by now for further power creep or at least the progression of builds. At this time it makes the idea of the introduction of yet even better antiproton weapons as @seriousdave and @taylor1701d suggested even more noteworthy.
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It's a Raider, which means it can have 5 DHC or DBB front while Raider flanking on top of Intel Flanking.
To me it is the best thing to come out of this lockbox because it paves the way for a T6 BoP which won't be so tough with such an awesome weapons layout and BOFF hybrid seating but it will have battle cloak that's hopefully the enhanced type.
Yeah, that raider...... To release a T6 cross-faction lobi raider even before the klingons got their damn 1st T6 bop really is adding insult to injury.
Makes me wonder when we finally see it's release.
Has anybody seen that staff on the Exchange or is it bind on pickup from the Lobi store?
Though right now what I want most is the Thrall outfit for my Reman, but I'm going to wait a bit because 30M on the Exchange is a bit rich for my blood, for a costume. Ideally I want to see the price at half that figure or better.
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Like all weapons and armor from the Lobi store, it's Bind on Pickup.
That staff is a pretty neat one, as I have it myself. Sadly, it has no Exploit attacks, but it has a good rate of fire and is basically an AoE machine with both the chain fire and the blast shot.
If you're not up to grabbing the super-staff from the Lobi store, there's a lot of regular version staves on the Exchange. Basically, they're just Herald staff weapon versions of all the regular weapon types, so those do come in Exploit attack varieties.
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The basic staves are essentially the ones you see the Constructs using.
The one from the Lobi store is the much fancier one you see Thralls and Heralds use.
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Great, now one last question...what is the item description so I can get on the Exchange tonight and have a look at the stats?
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There's technically 3; the Herald Brutes has their hammer-staff, but we don't get it at all. A shame too; it would've been nice to have it as the Iconian equivalent of the regular Blast Assault weapons, if not as an alternate Lobi special weapon.
There's Stun, Split-Beam, and High-Density versions of the Staff; just search "Herald" under Personal Weapons.