I think gathering all Hero 6 is too long term project. Like it takes 3 turn of rolodex recruitment, and then you probably need to raise Fred loyalty to 50+ so he tell you about Hiro, and then deal with Tomokiri and Globby, and even in the end you still one hero short.
People aren't picking Wasabi for national actions, although we might end up using him for one or two incidentally because his optics focus might well apply to roof-mounted lazer cannons or the Shiva lazer. The reason to get Wasabi is so that we can have a heroball to take on high DC actions and quests and unlock the new black ops team mechanic. We've had it repeatedly stressed that these have the potential to be very powerful and that BH6 has noted synergy.
Wasabi is likely to be in much more demand than the glooms, is the thing. Xanatos has already passed up a chance to recruit the glooms and didn't seem terribly interested; they've also been in NYC for months, so he either hadn't noticed them or hadn't cared that whole time. Most other Kings wouldn't have any reason to hire the glooms even if they know about them. Wasabi, however, is a specialist in a field that is known to exist who has just come off cracking fusion. I'm much more worried about him being grabbed in the near future and taken off the table.
Because superpowers are locked behind genetics, and there's too much interest in AI for us to do a double gene-turn
It's not "we might get units with higher bonuses in the future." It's "we already have 3 of them, and are on track to get 1-2 more in the near future." And as for Mal messing up a fire extinguishing spell... yes. He's the alt!doofenshmirtz. But having his inventions often crash and burn in humorous ways hasn't prevented Doofenshmirtz from being a 38 learning omnidisciplinary scientist - which is, I'll note, the second highest learning stat we've seen of any character. I don't think there's any serious argument for expecting him to have less than 19 occult. And notably? He could also do scrying, without needing the Jay Leno crystal ball, and we already have automatic potion brewing from the coffee machines + flight from the wings and talisman. The utility their items offer would be nice to have but is not unique.
I'd like to do Human Genetics, so we can continue down that path; it seems like it would lead to high valuable actions like disease curing, superpowers, or letting us collaborate with Sycorax to cure Liv Amara - er, to develop a cure for a general class of patients suffering from one oddly specific malady.
The point in time where they aren't useful is now. There is no point in the near future where we expect them to be the best choice for a national action. Eventually, sure, factors may well align that all the current occult heroes we're planning with are all unavailable and thus the glooms would be a notable improvement, but by that point we're also a) likely to have more of them and b) capable of having picked up the Glooms later. If we aren't going to use the Glooms until, say, July 2017, I'd much rather have recruited them in May 2017 and Wasabi now than the reverse.
I'd prefer human genetics. I think, if we do anything dino, it should be setting up the park.
They did roll a +10, probably trait related, and since they have artifacts that probably translate as traits...
Is is the artifact, or a trait? As Tobe is probably about to show us, The Power of Love is a real thing here, even Evil Love.
Problem with that is, the broom is not a combat artifact at all. While Leopold is obviously a combat unit, the broom is focused on Occult, like potion-brewing and spell-casting. There is no earthly reason why the broom would give +10 to combat rolls and nothing else.
As long as it works, makes no difference to me.
Technically it is the 3rd highest, 625 has 45 Learning.
This is speculation. No reason the Glooms would have a trait for Combat or Quests, given what we know of them. Now, obviously, a trait will be limited by something, but what that "something" is we can't know, and guessing what it is based entirely on what would most help our argument is unhelpful for the discussion.
This is incorrect. They don't have 29, they have 19+10 and we don't know what the +10 is. It might be very broad, but it might be a very specific bonus against dance-based magic. We don't know, we can't know, and it should not be taking into account as a certainty.
That doesn't apply in this situation as they were not attached to a quest leader, other than themselves. They were working on their own. We have not seen a hero unit consisting of two people in a Quest before, so we cannot accurately say what exactly that bonus is.
