Expand on how Evo Catalysts are obtained at the lab, the NPCs were of no assistance in that category.

Seraphynx
I can't help but feel that the hitboxes and damage from the Holy Beam are underpowered. Fix Heart attack above all things, in my trial it I must have used it at least 3 times to test the frequency, with no effect in it's respective trial mission on Elite difficulty. I played with Whitestorm and he had the same problem with his permanent sprite in a Normal difficulty arcade run.

Drakon
I find the Fire attack slightly overpowered. Without a harness, it destroyed over ¼ of a Lumber's health, that's not good in Tier 1. Maybe that's just because it was the trial one from the mission, but still. Flame Aura is fine the way it is as far as I'm concerned.

Maskeraith
I feel like I combined a Toxic Needle and a Toxic Catalyzer and Caustic Quills was the result, which is good. The Shadow Cloak isn't too long, just enough to get away and get back in the fray while negating aggro. I've noticed Oilers still pursue, but don't attack when I'm cloaked. Seriously intelligent slimes.

Overall, I don't find myself using them very often, and when I do, they're not likely to turn the tides much. I guess that is a good thing if the goal was to make them helpful but not heavily reliable or dependant.

I've only played around with the Maskeraith so this is my personal experience with him:

Quill Spray needs more spread and/or more range. I think it should be more like a Blitz Charge shot in spread, in order to hit a large variety of targets with quills, yet still give the option to pound a single target with dozens of Quills. I'm going to assume that quills are currently glitched, in that each target can only have 1 quill on him at a time. Most of the time, it only hits one or two targets, despite having a large number of quills.

I really wish the invisibility allowed you to pick up and place/throw items like keys and pots, or gave you a bonus on the attack that breaks invisibility. It really doesn't do as much as you would think. To progress in a level you often need to break through blocks or open doors, and combined with its cooldown, it doesn't help you sneak. There's no offensive reason to use it, especially when dash/bash help you get close to a group of range enemies like Devilites or Retrodes. The only time I found it useful was when I was goofing around against the Rabid Snarbolax(s), but that honestly just got my allies killed instead of me (which was amusing, I'll admit). The casting delay doesn't help either.

The third skill I love. SO FREAKIN FUN, and it doesn't feel that broken. It doesn't seem to increase in duration if I'm hitting more targets, because using it in a compound against some of the swarms of enemies lasts just as long as using it in the ATH against single enemies.

• Drakon
  • That fire breath thing
    Is nice. The blast radius, knockback, burnination, range and power feel like they should for what the skill is.
  • The spinny orbs
    Works alright. It's a good move for when you just want to suicidally run up and attack something dangerous. The spinny orbs pack a decent amount of punch and don't seem underpowered considering there's a defence buff as well. Hopefully one of the ultimates give it more orbs. It really feels like it needs more orbs to feel right.
  • The Ash of Agni
    And let's not fool ourselves here, this is basically just strong-fire Ash of Agni with a bit smaller coverage. At any rate, it works well. Good for safe kiting, feels like it could maybe last a little bit longer.
  • Overall
    This sprite is well-designed. Each ability has three very distinct purpose: The first to divide & conquer, the second to get up, close and personal, and the third for kiting. Drakon is as versatile as he is powerful.
• Seraphinx
  • The lazor
    Is okay. The intention is probably to push back enemies or some other kind of utility since the damage is absolutely rubbish. It's the best ability the Sphinx has. I only really like it for enemies that aren't affected by knockback since they won't get knocked right out of the laser.

    The ultimates needs to give this shock or stun or a radically widened hitbox.

  • Heart Attack
    Does nothing. Make it do something.
  • The shield
    Lasts for literally five seconds. This'd be okay if the cooldown wasn't so massive, the shield itself wasn't so weak that you can't even reliably protect teammates with it, and the fact that you have absolutely no idea when your shield is or is not taking damage nor how much health it has nor how much time left there is on the shield. This is all vital information for operating a shield and I thought you guys understood that when you added the shield bar.

    The shield is only good for running up to priority targets and assassinating them while you're alone or for impatient people who want to cross traps.

    If the shield is supposed to have such a short duration, you need to make it activate instantly. There can be no delay whatsoever on this. If you can't make it activate instantly, the shield needs to be literally unbreakable. If it can't be unbreakable, the shield's health needs to scale with the amount of party members in the team and there needs to be a good indicator for how much damage it's taking and how much more it can take. The ability is even more vague and unreliable than heart attack, which we at least know exactly what does at the moment (which is nothing). The shield should be bigger and last longer.

  • Overall
    Why do you keep making defensive equipment and abilities when you so clearly hate defensive equipment and abilities?
• Maskeraith
  • Bioplagueneedlehazard
    Is great for spreading poison and pretty fun. Currently it's bugged, and I don't see why you even put these out on the test server when these abilities so clearly don't work as intended. You could have literally figured this out by using the ability for yourselves just once on anything at all. The quills never stack. Did you really need to survey a bunch of players to figure that out?
  • The cloak
    I never use it. The other abilities are better and there is no way to mix abilities. It's not bad; cloaking is cool. Maybe I'll find a situation for it someday.
  • The hex mark
    Doesn't extend. Otherwise, it's absolutely delightful and the most fun I've had with this game since August, 2011. Do not nerf any aspect of this ability.
  • Overall
    Excellent concept, please make it work as you've described it.
• Overall
  I like them. I can see why you'd make cooldowns apply to all the abilities at once, so as to avoid spamming, but right now there's little reason for me the mix up which abilities I use. Cooldowns should be halved on the two abilities I didn't use, encouraging variety. Here's how it'd work:
  1. I use Caustic Quills. The quills are now at 18 seconds cooldown but the other two are at 9 seconds.
  2. After 9 seconds, I use Hex Mark. Hex Mark is now at a 40 second cooldown, cloak is at 20 seconds cooldown, and Caustic Quills are at 29.
  3. After 20 seconds, I could Cloak. Quills would be back at 29, Hex Mark would bump back to 40 and Cloak would also be at 40.
  4. The system made it easy for me to vary my moves, but since all abilities do gain some cooldown with each cast, it might be wiser for me to avoid spamming an ability whenever I can just because I can.

I've kinda fallen in love with the Maskeraith, but playing with it has given me a few ideas about how to enhance 1) this particular sprite and 2) battle sprites in general.

First off, the cloak isn't particularly useful. Normally, I'd use it for sneaking up on an enemy and unleashing a powerful attack, but since I can't charge anything up with it on, it's far less useful. However, it gave me an idea: what if you let the player stay cloaked if he shield-charges? Most charge attacks perform an attack first, which naturally breaks the cloak. But shield-charging doesn't perform an attack, so allowing the player to charge while cloaked in this way will coerce them to learn this interesting technique.

Then, with the cooldown being so long, I feel cheated when I have to decloak prematurely. I was hoping that the cooldown (not the ~50 sec ability countdown, I mean the ~15 sec bonus) would resume from where it left off when I cease doing anything that broke it.

I would also like to see the ability cooldowns separated, which would allow the Maskeraith to cloak you and then perform a surprise attack out of cloak. But I'm not convinced that this is balanced; anybody got opinions on that?

Some of the above players would like to see the sprites auto-target. I like that idea too, but I don't think it goes far enough. If we are allowed to tell the sprites to stay or come, countless strategies are opened up. But if the sprites auto-target, they need to choose the targets 1) that the players point at or 2) that are closest to the sprite when the player isn't pointing at anything in particular.

I promise I will not generate an obese block of text for this post, like I usually do. Obese blocks of text are for serious complaining :3.

I greatly enjoy the look of the sprites, and rescuing them was adorable and enjoyable, and should be a good "hooking" experience for new players as well as old. I like the abilities, some are cliche, some are not, and that's good balance - expectations and surprise. The damage of the Drakon is a bit much for the lower tier, but, then again, it is a dragon. And that boss! It gave me a bit of a fright! I want to fight a tougher one. Also, love the icy battle pod coming out of the shell like that, and the lights bzzting before shorting out, though that's not battle sprite talk.

What I Want: A colorizing option. I love the prismatic (personal color matching) aspects, but I also love maximizing variety. Seeing toasty and cool, dusky and divine themed sprites would be ever so delightful. Some skins could be limited availability, like divine, or shadow...man, that would be sexy. This is a bit far fetched, but I would also love ability color tints. Walking around with a blue-fire shooting drakon, or a green-laser-beaming kitty would be neat. Blue fire burns hotter <3.

More snuggles. I know they're self modifying robots, but I want to program mine to be even more adorable. Like don't just stalk my shoulder, sheesh, wander off, bob up and down, doze off before I do and wake up with a shake of the head when I move. Elaborate: in haven, a sprite could wander off, catch a snipe, carry it back to you, then get distracted and put it down, and then go catch another one. That would be so...so...squee and laaaaaag-tastic in crowded instances. In non-combat zones (because interacting with a sprite in levels would drive people NUTS), interacting with your sprite will have a little thought bubble pop up, with a ":)" or a "<3" or a ":S" for hunger. Also flipping in the air once in awhile would be cute. And seeing another sprite/user (not in a level): a friend/guildie = happy noise, a stranger (not a Stranger) = hides behind your back. Happens when you get in range, once, in a lobby, not in haven - too crowded for that. And more things. Squee!

For the food making: creating in bulk would be fantastic. I can make more than one pancake at once when I'm at home. I should be able to make more than one x-mote, too. Especially for people who plan ahead, and are patient with heat - they will know exactly what they need. Clicking that button repeatedly, even though the preview lets you spam levels with that superfood, was annoying. Bulk food crafting makes logical sense. One dozen cookies. This is different than crafting armors (well, some people spam craft) - you're making food, not clothes. Bulk! Bulk!

Don't like that one ability cools them all down. I've never seen that in any game before, ever, so I'm going to assume this is a bug. Each ability has its own cooldown time in every other game I have ever played, and that makes sense. Especially if overall exhaustion is depleted when you spam all of them in succession, mandating a longer cooldown before any ability can be used again, if, and only if, all of them are used rapidly, within the cooldown of the first one used. Count that as a suggestion if it isn't a bug.

Harnesses need more explaining. Perks need better selection obviousness.

Can't wait to test ult attacks and forms.

Advance Training Hall damage info: (Level 89 Sprites, Maxed Augments, brackets show cooldown)

Drakon

• Firebolt: [12s] 49
• Flame Barrier: [32s, about 11s effect time] 21
• Firestorm: [40s] N/A (casts Strong Fire status?)

Seraphinx

• Ray of Light: [16s] 13; 5 hit limit
• Heart Attack: [40s] N/A
• Angelic Aura: [40s] N/A

Maskeraith

• Caustic Quills: [16s] N/A
• Shadow Cloak: [40s] N/A
• Hexing Haze: [40s] 51; can hit about 3 times throughout duration of attack

Observations:

1. Drakon levels up with Power items; Seraphinx with Divine and Maskeraith with Shadow. There are two other leveling items available: Cosmic and Wild. Does this imply there will be at least 2 more Sprites available in the future, one with a space and another with a beast theme? (Wolver Sprite anyone?)
2. Currently we can only pick 1 sprite--the problem with new players is that it will force them to use them in a fighting style that they may not like as they progress through the game. We all know how drastically different 5 Star equips are compared to 1 Star, and the differences between Tier 1 and Tier 3 are pretty huge. You're forcing a beginner player to make a big decision very early in the game, and if they pick a sprite they are unhappy with, they are more likely to quit than to start over with a new sprite. While you get to "demo" the sprites early on, it's not a great demonstration of what they can do.
3. The act of picking 1 of 3 "Starter" sprites is very reminiscent of a...popular monster catching game. Especially with the evolution aspect and acquiring skills and such. So I can understand where one picks one and commits to it. However, the big aspect of the game was the ability to obtain more, develop a collection, and swap them out for different scenarios. Thus, it would be very advisable to allow players to obtain the other sprites, perhaps in later, more difficult missions (say after T2 and after beating Vanaduke) and use sprites for different scenarios.
4. The equipment UI allows players to Unequip sprites. If we were only getting 1, and 1 only, why would we ever unequip one? It is my hope that all players can obtain all 3 sprites (eventually, via T2 and T3 missions). This looks promising...
5. It's worth noting that only Maskeraith has a damage inducing 3rd skill, and Drakon is not as useful in FSC since Slags are immune to fire. Not that everything should revolve around FSC, but it is a big part of the game for some people.
6. Maskeraith Hexing Haze can deal damage through walls and shielded enemies. I like it.

Glitches:

1. Cooldown applies to all skills instead of the one used. Penalizes lower level skills for just using higher level ones. Not sure if intended.
2. Seraphinx: Heart Attack does not work; monsters get enchanted, then nothing happens (no increase in heart drop)
3. Seraphinx: Timer for Angelic Aura does not work properly, shows 0-1 but lasts about 5 seconds at max augment
4. Maskeraith: Quills do not stack (only 1 quill is applied to an enemy)
5. Maskeraith: Hexing Haze tags and hits enemies outside of walls and shielded enemies. Not sure if intended.

Personal Recommendations:

1. Allow all sprites to be obtained by all players in some way or form (mission reward, etc).
2. Cooldowns are far too long, across the board. I can understand why you want to deter spamming, though.
3. Drakon's 3rd skill (Firestorm) should deal damage. It's strange for an offensive sprite to be lacking a skill that deals massive damage in the end, leaving his 1st skill as the only true offensive one.
4. Seraphinx needs an overhaul, like most people say--even if it was working properly. Brief immunity with a long cooldown means players need to plan around its usage which is incredibly limited when in the heat of battle. I would much prefer a wider area of effect that just halves all damage and gives high status resist/tick damage reduction for a longer period of time. And have Heart Attack create an area of effect with a slow heal (basically create a slow heart panel, like the ones in FSC, except AoE and fixed to casting point or move with the user). It would make it ideal to have at least 1 person in the party as the "healer" and ensure Seraphinx's are popular members in parties. My thoughts were that the protective abilities of Seraphinx would promote a much more party-like synergy in terms of healing and support/defense. But increasing heart drops (instead of actually healing with its skill) and limited protection makes it highly situational instead of actually useful.
5. Remove Seraphinx 1st skill (Ray of Light) hit limit, and remove its knockback too. It's hard enough to aim as it is.
6. Maskeraith cloak is more or less useless. What would be better is if the user was given a damage boost for the first attack used to break out of cloak; cooldown should be brief (1s), but make duration very short (3s). Think Recon user in Lockdown. If anything, give a defense reduction while in cloak. This will give a hit-and-run playstyle, where Maskeraith users cloak, deal damage, then cloak again, and repeat. Getting hit by anything while cloaked (ie. spikes, status traps) deals extra damage. Note that you still won't be able to charge attacks, which helps keeping this being too overpowered.
7. Maskeraith 1st skill (Caustic Quills) should spread a wider array of arrows.

I won't give you too much to think about, but please increase damage output for Drakon. Drakon needs to be the popular choice, make him favorable please. Having 70% of T3 using Maskerwraith doesn't feel right.

I love the news zeddy, now I can be even more of a rebel and meta-maker by picking the maskewraith c:

Sprites do not invalidate offensive armours. If you use a full shadowsun set, you can get the medium handgun damage and gain max without having to resort to trinkets. This has been sorely lacking for gunslingers, seeing how much guns are in need of damage bonus to work well.

You could also spread your bonuses out, using armour for power and sprite perks for speed. Swords and guns have three different aspects to boost, and even with chaos+swiftstrike there is still room to max out some of them.

Plus, once you get MSI for your sprite you're really not going to want to go back from +4 MSI.

Also, there is an indicator when the abilities are done cooling down. It's a flash similar to shields.

I've only used the Maskeraith, I plan on trying out the Seraphynx later. Although I heard that the Angelic Aura of the Seraphynx is both time and health based. Could you please at least display a shield bar that lets players know how much of it is left?

I love the way you've worked the defensive abilities for the three sprites. I'm fairly sure the damage that the shield defends against depends on what harness yor sprite is wearing. You can choose to go with an offensive harness, matching the damage type enemies are weak to so your offensive ability is more effective, or you could go with a defensive harness, matching the damage type enemies deal so your defensive ability is more effective.

Note that I've had a lot of difficulty getting the abilities to work due to my shoddy laptop, 98% of the time when I try to use an ability, my character points, but the sprite does nothing. That being said, I've tested out the abilities outside of combat and I like what I see.

Caustic Quills

Unfortunately I was unable to test this extensively, as most the times when enemies were around my abilities wouldn't activate

Shadow Cloak

So far is my favorite ability. I noticed that quite a few actions would cancel the cloak if performed while the cloak was up. However, since there's a delay on when the cloak activates, it gives a quick fingered player time to start charging a weapon before the cloak is enabled. The 16 second cloak time is absolutely wonderful, giving the player "practical" invulnerability, by that I mean that enemies will never actively target you, even if you have a haze bomb damaging them. And it makes the cooldown (42 seconds, I think it was) seem minor. (since it's only ~26 seconds left once the ability has worn off)
This would be a quite effective way to escape Vanaduke. When you create too much threat and he turns and faces you? Cloak! He'll turn back around and attack your teammates again :P
But you said that when you take damage, it dispels. I didn't see this happening. And the damage resisted is barely worth it. It seemed to be around a 10% decrease in damage, but I've yet to do more tests on this.

I honestly can't wait to see what two ultimate abilities are available for this, It's already a wicked ability in its own right.

Hexing Haze

This seemed pretty fun. I loved the explosions. However, as said previously, the time of the haze isn't extended at all when monsters are tagged. In fact, the time isn't really displayed at all. Please fix this.

Notes:
- When a harness is changed at the weapon boxes at depth starts, the harness model itself will not change, but the properties of the damage will. The model changes once you've reached the next depth.
- Heart Attack is still broken
- Holy Beam seem better hitboxes are better, but still not up to par.
- Hexing haze sometimes has a 4th explosion even though the encircling haze is gone, but the marks remain. Not sure if that's supposed to happen or not.

Opinions

I agree with Gear-Storm's post: "Cooldown applies to all skills instead of the one used. Penalizes lower level skills for just using higher level ones." After trying utilize my sprite more, the static cool down is vexing in regards to trying make it efficient in combat. Albeit this is designed to counter any possible spamming.

The Shadow cloak is great, but if it's just an escape tactic it's not very useful, and by extension, a feeling devoid of proper investment. Gear-Storm brings up a good suggestion: "would be better is if the user was given a damage boost for the first attack used to break out of cloak"
My take on it is maybe just a defense debuff/chance of inflicting poison, or decrease movement speed with the first strike after emerging.

Hexing Haze makes up for this quite a bit, but it somewhat defeats the purpose of debilitation and impairment if it, just from what I've seen, simply blows up enemies in the radius, which is great in arenas, and super fun in the training hall. This is very ironic given the fact it rivals the Flame shield for the offensive based Drakon, a little too well, possibly even surpasses it in terms of damage. I don't have any alternatives, but it overall seems a little OP. I don't have any alternative suggestions but as long as I'm heard I don't very much care.

Suggestions

• As said above, offer a enemy defense debuff/poison with the first strike out of Shadow Cloak
• Concurring with Surfpichu, tooltips with skillpoints is good to know what you want to invest in, displaying what cooldown time will be removed and what damage/duration will increased if you use said skillpoint.
• You're probably already on top of this, but adding descriptions to the perks abilities would help.

Questions: 1.How often can you rename your sprite at launch? Is it infinite like in the test preview?
2.Does each sprite get the same perks?
3. What are the purpose of the pink materials that are dropped?

- I think the door to the Lab needs to be deeper (the loading screen starts at the door frame)
- I think a leveling up animation is needed when sprits jump from one size to the next

Sprite feedback here.

I can't use the mouse wheel to use the sprite abilities. This might be just me though.

When you do the sprite missions, you have a companion sprite that is Level "x" (don't recall), however, when you choose one to bond - you get one that is weaker.
From a plot / story perspective - why would I not get one of the three I've already rescued / traveled with, that I have a relationship with?
Would it break things to give us one that is already at the same level and letting us assign the skill points?

+1 for "autotarget" option for sprites.
If they've evolved / have become more intelligent - then they should be able to zap the nearest enemy or head into a mob for area of effect abilities like Heart Attack, to maximize effect.

+1 for sprite items / materials getting their own separate tab. Presumably these things will end up on the AH, so same there as well.

The overall number of sprite levels seems a bit excessive (90 -100) and overly "grindy".
The sprite level up mechanics also don't feel intuitive. Maybe a pop-up when your sprite wants food? (color code it differently from regular chat).

Sprite "food" machines. These should be available throughout Haven and Clockworks, anywhere there is an alchemy machine. (caveat - I didn't explore everywhere to confirm the lab isn't the only location). The lab should not be the only location, otherwise it's a lot of extra travel / scene cuts.

Each skill for each sprite has 2 ultimates and you get to pick an ultimate for each skill. It's at least 3x3x2 end-sprites.

During my testing, the cloak does not actually break if you take damage, even though Nick's description said you would. I tested it just now to make sure.

For hexing haze, just mark your enemies with the X and then leave them alone until they explode, at which point you can mark them again. It works just fine on Trojans, but you need to get behind them just like with any other attack, I tested that just now as well. This wasn't the case one patch ago and I'm sad to see it go.

I agree on dev feedback. We really need to know what these things are supposed to be doing so we can tell if they're doing it correctly.

Maskeraiths cloak should allow you to interact with keys, totems, and placement statues.
Quills dont stack.

Drakon is almost useless in all places where the monsters have a fire attribute.( In FSC the defensive orbs went right through the slags. Its third move, flamethrower type thing, also didnt work on monsters with the fire attribute.)

Seraphynx beam has a very small and narrow hitbox. Damage is pretty low. Heart attack gives no hearts.( All monsters I heart attacked, didnt even drop
the regular amount of hearts). It's protective shield needs a buff.

Maybe it's just the test server so you dont exactly need all those minerals up front but that is a crazy amount of minerals required in total. A possible slight reduction in the required minerals.

I also noticed that occasionally, minerals drop from defeated monsters. So should that make minerals tradeable?

I agree with Flame, instead of heat maybe a form of usage/Exp. points.

Universal cooldown is kind of a bummer. The cooldown times are also a bit high.

Dont think we were supposed to see this but: I dont think BattleSprites should be allowed on pvp. As some BS are more usefull than others. And in a certain pvp map I wont name, you couldnt go back in your teams base to heal. Idk if it was a bug or maybe a new way to play.

I've played enough to agree on a few things. First off:

Recharge: While I'm not sure about the invidual recharge raits, the universal recharge is an issue, especially with the last two skills; kinda makes a sprite feel like a flying decoration. Since there does need to be some means of preventing chain spamming, simply have the other skills go into a set cooldown, rather than a cooldown related to the skill used. So if you use Shadow cloak, the other skills will start a cooldown of, say, 5-10 secs. That way sprites will still have some skill use. Balance as needed.

Ray of Light skill for Seraphynx: I do agree to some degree that the beam is just a bit tooo thin. Widening it by a small degree would help, irregardless of how it might be used a barrier (As sometimes you don't always have an opportunitry for good placement. twitch fire.)

Regarding sprite leveling, it does feel a bit grindy before I started using the super food, though that's still iffy for obvious reasons.

More later.

Poisoned Toxigel. (obviously not my screenshot, through I have access to Test Server myself)

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What could possibly go wrong?

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You sure you'll fix it till 17th?

@zeddy: I stand corrected. And this saddens me even more. More locked in choices that we won't be able to test or reverse. So now we not only might regret our sprite choice, we'll regret 3 power choices as well.

Choice continued:
Morlin's attitude shifts a few times in the dialog:
(select sprite) - "are you sure"... "really, that one?" (uhh, i'm scared)
then
"...and don't worry about applying skill points the 'wrong way' since you will eventually gain enough skill points to max out all your skills" (sigh of relief)
then
"...You may only select one ultimate skill per sprite skill so choose wisely!" (so much pressure!)
I regretted my choice, twice even. Is this the intended effect, to inspire us to create more knights, just to have different sprites and their varying ultimate skills? This is essentially dividing the playerbase into 3 camps.

Maskeraith continued:
I tried the cloak and charge combo. This works brilliantly! If you were to change it, please allow more options while we are hiding.
In the training levels, the light sensors (?) detect you when cloaked. When I saw these sensor areas, I was expecting the cloak to come in handy finally. It didn't. Worked nicely on gun puppies though. (this sprite is still my personal favorite)
Seraphynx:
The 'ray of light' reminds me of the 'care bear stare', just less effective. I still haven't seen 'heart attack' work as intended. The 'angelic aura' duration is way too short.
Drakon:
This sprite would be more effective if his damage output was equal to or greater than your knights'. After using drakon's as well as the other sprites attack skills, I felt like I could've done a better job with a charge shot from any gun or brandish. The time it takes to line up the sprite makes this very ineffective. I enjoyed drakon's shield much more than seraphynx, mostly because the duration was longer, twice as long it seemed.

What is the appetite for? Is this a daily limitation on how much you can upgrade your sprite? Or just in regards to playtime, ie, the more you play, the hungrier the sprite gets, and the more you can heat/level him up? I'm sorry, i skipped ahead with the super food, and I haven't seen any patch notes for what we are to expect when playing. Because I'm now at a dead-end, I guess I'm finished testing.
Hope this helped.

Ok, so I got the launcher and started the first mission, been there done that. I get the temp drakon. No idea how to use it whatsoever. Halp ._.

All battle sprites are always at right from a knight. It is good and this is how would right handed knight use it if it would be real.
How about left-handed players, could we still have a chance to make our knight left handed and place our battle sprite at the left too?

Thats not about equality, it is because it's really uncomfortable. If you are right handed, please, try to play with left handed character.
I hope you will understand what am I talking about.

Thanks.

Seraphynx
1 Works not bad, but animation show longer than attack.
2 It doesn't work.
3 Not bad, god mode for a few seconds but you cant see current time.

Drakon
1 Too weak.
2 Too weak.
3 Too weak.
Absolutely useless pet now, combuster can make his work faster and better. Add second second circle of spheres and buff them, Buff spit. Make third skill looks like agni of ashes.

Maskeraith
1 Not bad in some cases.
2 Some people want to use it.
3 Good field, helps alot.
The best sprite now.

For all
1 Common recharge time isn't good
2 Let us to use them with charged weapons
3 It's close to impossible to feed them only with favorite food, i need about 10k minerals to get it. Other food works bad like usual mats, you have to bufff it.
4 I see 4 harnesses in the shop, but i can use only 3 of them.
5 As i can guess 90 level will gives one more perk to use thats why it shouldn't go to coliseum.
6 Sprites fly too far from player and sometimes they look like enemies.
7 Sprites have low accuracy.

What's sadden me is the cooldown of those ability

I only resorted to the first ability because it had a short cooldown and I would remember about it. After playing for 2 years the same game, the same way. It's kinda hard to add a shield bash (which I don't use) a dash (which I use to get out of danger but fail half the time) and now Battle sprites with 40 sec cooldown on a spell that I want to use often.

I don't see my gameplay-style changing much with those Sprites TBH... I will use one ability at the start of each arena and then forget about it for the fight... or spam the weakest skill.

*people whine on dash with 9 sec cooldown reduc* *puts 1 minute cooldown on skill*

I feel the game is going more toward MMO than RPG now... -_-