Yes, it’s actually news around here when I do some gaming. Last night it was CoH, doing our Lvl 42 scrapper team, Rita & Runt.
Lots of fun, but being at that level means you have a ton of powers and attacks and, aside form it being a button-munching fest, it takes a while to get the attack chains back. Especially when it’s been 300-odd days since you last played that toon …
That all said (and we had fun, and pretty much wiped up anything we went against), I want to comment on the best QoL improvement EVAH:
The changes the Auction Houses.
Yeah, the changes have been around a few issues, but I just want to comment on them: this was the interface we needed when Wentworths came out. Drag something (enhancement, recipe, salvage) into the auction panel. If it’s salvage you need for a recipe you have, it warns you. Then you can instantly get, on the same screen, the most recent prices for that piece. Choose a price, and have at it. Ditto for making bids on items, with the search line being quick and auto-completing.
None of this is capability that wasn’t available in the original interface, but here it’s actually convenient, quick, and useful. It’s as close to a joy to use as such an interface could be, and it makes buying and selling stuff (auctionable stuff, at least) as close to painless as possible.
Yeah, having the actual crafting be a separate location is still irksome. Salvage management is annoying. The actual crafting stuff is a distraction (though, ultimately, less so than having to constantly refresh DOs and SOs). But at least they’ve gotten the auction house interface right, and that’s no small thing.