Thwackers DON'T drop spikes???

Not sure it's the same thing, but t3 gremlin healers always sped up monsters for a bit (like 100ms or so); most noticeable lumbers. Could be an old bug tho.

It feels like they're trying to put out a lot of fires at the moment, and I sympathise with them. We do kinda have them on a bit of a sharp schedule, wanting fixes and content and all. A lot has been added, a lot has been changed, they're chasing and patching out exploits, it's probably a whole thing.

I can agree that this event is rocky but it's also fun. For me. That said I don't have any idea how a party of apprentices is supposed to go up against a fully spiked mech knight on any difficulty. A full team of veterans running elite has a fair chance at getting solo'd by one EXTREMELY juiced up robot (and even on normal a pair of them can be a bit of a pain), so there's definitely work to do, but if a GM was to make the argument right now that "there are more veterans than new players at this time so it could probably be excused" I'd agree.

Retrodes thing is probably a class inheritance issue on their side. I imagine it's fixable but it probably involves doing deeper work than the work already done so far.

Even despite this I still am inclined to politely agree with Pillarcatto that it *would* be nice to see the patch notes touch on what's being fixed, if only so we can understand the sort of load they're under and all. I sort of hope for an "it went pretty well but we've learned a few things" type of post, after the event has concluded - if it's going to run semi-frequently as hinted at, then the time it has offline will probably be spent cleaning it up. I think the reason for the quiet is because it was a little rushed and that's put unexpected pressure on the team when things started to choke.