I'm pretty sure some people are here are asking questions just for the sake of asking questions... *cough* Sweet-Hope *cough*.

Maskeraith seems like the perfect BS for assist/group parties. Drakon seems like a nice soloing companion, nice DPS increaser.

First of all, I'd like to thank Nick for taking the time to give us these updates. It really helps a lot-especially in such a large content drought-to really get some excitement into the game.

Mmm, I think I'm getting the Maskeraith for my first one. I has a nice damage boost on the first attack with a poison status that will be extremely helpful in areas with healers as well as bosses just for that extra DPS. It also frees up a slot away from a exclusively poison weapon such as Venom Veiler. Now I should be able to safely stack Ash of Agni and Voltaic Tempest for a total of 3 statuses inflicted on mobs at once! "at 40% you will stop dots. until then, you will throw more dots, throw more dots, more dots, more dots, come on more dots. k, stop dots"

The partial invisibility looks extremely interesting. If it has the added bonus of being able to charge a weapon under the effect of PvE invisibility, that will be absolutely fantastic in FSC. Depth 28, you're fighting of hordes of slag walkers inside the final room. The final wave begins and two trojans appear in the top. You vanish immediately, confusing the zombies that were about to try and eat you. The mobs wander around looking for their prey while you sneak past the fire grates, charging your blitz needle, and uncloak right behind the left trojan's back to rain a volley of bullets at him. /endfanfic

Dunno wtf hex is other than what I assume from Warcraft III, but it seems extremely interesting and unique! Really excited to see them in action!

And some people like to judge without think first or without have a reason*cough* Kimahsonite *cough*

I asked that second thing because i forgot to add it to my first post. also because something that was come to mind after a have in mind a situation like that,

of course maybe only heart attack add a chance to drop a heart. but what if it just add a heart to the drop instead add a chance to get a heart from the loot?. of course with little common sense this will work with chance because i want to believe OOO wouldnt let that resurrected zombies from totem can drop a heart if someone use Heart Attack with their Seraphynx. but what if they forgot that little detail?

Better to ask to know things first. just to be sure. so no i dont ask for the sake of ask :/

Is there going to be a Jelly Sprite?

Also, Are all hearts dropped from Heart Attack 1 hearts? or by tier?

After carefully reading everything I reached this conclusion: I will not get a battle sprite for 1 month after release! (:

I will wait for other people to develop strategies and walkthroughs, and then after carefuly reading them all, I will pick.

So, the Ultimate ability is a permanent choice. Oh, barf. I guess that means eclectics like I (and Fehzor, if I interpret correctly) will be compelled to get a Sprite for each Ultimate option. Lol, and I thought it was bad that my tic forced me to get a third Jelly Gun.

Reading the announcement, I'm rather surprised that the descriptions of the Drakon's and Seraphinx' abilities look so similar. I'm also a bit surprised, and pleasantly so, that I get an impression as to which Sprite to focus on first. The Maskewraith looks like it has appeal similar to my coveted Biohazard, and they might synergise alright too. Maybe Elemental and Pierce harnesses could provide alternatives with appeal and purpose similar to that of my Neutraliser. I look forward to finding out whether they'll compete clashingly or combine cooperatively in that respect.

read my previous comment.

You could repeat the missions to obtain them over and over and try strategies yourself. Every time you reach the end and have to choose a sprite, you simply quit so it doesn't get saved.

So.. what does E-class mean?
is that like the basic sprite we recieve?
so the final version is A-class?
WILL THERE BE A PET-TAMER NPC?

Will we be able to reassign already distributed battle sprite's skillpoints? Like if we assign all of them and then we realise we want to do it other way, will we be able to discard all changes and assign them over again?

Mmm, I wonder how expensive it's going to be to max all the augments. Hopefully it's pretty steep; maybe materials will actually be worth something aside from a select few non-FSC drops and shadow lair ones.

Just wondering to anyone who can answer: Which day(s) of the week do the patches take place on and what time?

Owlert: Patches come on the days where there will be a patch. Basically, there doesn't seem to be a set day.

@Inferno, I think it's in preparation for the core... hopefully they wanna make that ridiculously hard so that we actually NEED these pets to have a hope of surviving... Oh well. I can always dream. ;.;