Cheers!!! This is one thing I hate on the map atm, as you get these people who barely know what they are doing that are running around with struggle rings and ask if I can boost them in lvls, because they did not play the map from the start on their own they know nothing about the map even though they are lvl 300+, since they got boosted in struggle from 1-300.

but i thought the map was on bottom left and the rest of the black was on top and right D:

bad memory i guess :*(

I like this, just as long as the future waves don't get as dragged out as some of the current endgame ones. I'm assuming Infinity's Tower is going to be one or two rooms (using 100 actual different rooms on the map would take way too much space) in a slightly modified Colo format. Are there going to be midbosses, and so, how frequently? I had a few ideas if you're interested...

Infinite struggle is now divided into two parts. There's part A, and part B.

There are several things I dislike about this part of the announcement:
-XP Rate: The same argument that you yourself applied to why people should play CoT even with an impending code wipe applies against you here. Why should people grind for hours and hours when it's absolutely no fun? What if they have a heart attack a few seconds after they turn 999? Let's face it, once you defeat the Goddesses, the goal of the game more or less becomes to simply reach 999. You'll be swapping out items so much in between then, save for a select few, that you have very few solid goals besides that. Between the facts that higher levels take more XP to obtain (and the XP rate goes down as you level), the end result is that you're going to spend a huge portion of the game grinding. While the inflated XP rate of the Struggle sure does make powerleveling easier, keep in mind that it also makes leveling in general less tedious than it already is, which I think is a good thing. I'd suggest looking for an elegent way to solve the former problem without affecting the latter observation - at least, until "grinding" in CoT becomes fun and more efficient than it is now.
-Part B: If the current tower costs are any indication, you'd only have a chance of even doing remotely well on this part with a lot of plats - basically, well after you're into the Chaotic World. Gold-based challenges are directly discriminatory against tank classes like the Royal Guard which take an hour and a half to kill one monster, whereas a Phoenix Ranger or Master Rogue can mow down groups in seconds for 200k gold per run. Once you actually have enough gold to pull it off, it seems like there'd really be no skill requirement, so the 100 rounds would merely be a formality. Quite simply, this just really seems like a gimmick that looks cool on paper but won't really do great in implementation, unless I'm vastly misunderstanding a detail.

I do like the idea of forging the complete item from two halves, though, long as the item's actually worth the effort/tediosity.

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Note: This is to be considered part of the above post. The only reason it is not is because UCOZ's character limit dislikes me.
And with that...

-6 Minigames, item from all minigames -> forge into set [going to think about some moar]

I like this idea, but if the IS is any indication of how tedious minigames will be, the set reward should have a pretty dramatic effect. Perhaps it increases all experience gained five-fold or something?

You say theyre discrimatory against tanks, but they can still get demon nation and get reources.

Regarding sin, i forgot about them to be honest. From sin you get sin items, and killing xx sin makes pandemonium appear, which takes 5 ppl to kill. (First legendary boss)(release TBA 2012-13)

For the Infinite Tower, 4 rooms. All 4 have stairs on a side. Let's say it's the top side. Basically, you come in from Top-Left corner, empty the room of stuff, and go up the Top Right corner. These stairs lead up to the next floor. This room has stairs coming from the lower floor in the top-Left, and when you clear the room, you can go up to the Top Right stairs. Top floor has stairs in Top Left, but non it Top Right.
Basically: Okay, basically, you've got one room, and it's part of a pattern. You could duplicate it and stack it and you'd have an infinite tower, with no ground or top floors. Top floor has no stars going up, and bottom floor has a door instead of stairs.
Room 1: Ground floor (Floor 1), door and stairs going up.
Room 2: All of the even floors except for 100. When everyone is out of room 1, the door opens to let them empty the room. When it's empty, the top-right door opens for them to go up the stairs.
Room 3: Similar to Room 2, but all of the odds except for Ground Floor. When everyone is in it's "waiting room" (top of stairs leading from Room 2) door opens and they can get in to clear it.
Room 4: Floor 100, the top floor. Only has stairs coming up to it, no stairs leading up.

Or you could just make it 1 room. It's kinda easy actually. Ignore the fact there's supposed to be a door in, and give players an elevator. They come in, clear the room, get in the "elevator". New creeps spawn, doors open, stuff gets killed.
But you'll have to invul everything before the doors open, for 2 related reasons. First, creeps might attack players in there. Second, players might attack creeps. (Just visioning past the door would let it happen). So you'll have to have a trigger for everything to invul during spawning/"going up a floor", and vul it all when they're "at the next floor".

PS: About sets, you missed a few sets. Like I think Battlemage doesn't have a set, but I don't remember who all doesn't have sets. I'd have to record every combination so far and check it against current sets. And anyway, you're not going to just name 3 of them? What happened to Mystic?

Let me think on the infinite tower idea.

I made it in paint

Problem with that though is it's a very odd looking tower. I'll see if I can draw one up to show what I meant....but tomorrow. Tired now *yawn*

|---Wall
X--Lower stairs
Y--Upstairs? lol
Z--Creeps
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|X Y|
| |
| ZZZ |
| |
|__________|_