For those that are struggling with the timed objective there is a strategy that works very well. I have a small amount of lag that made the timed difficult (took me a few tries on t1) but when I used the blank formation strategy with t2 I finished with over 12 mins left vs barely failing it the 2 tries I did prior.

You save your good formation in one slot and a completely empty formation in a second slot. Then as soon as the area is complete you switch to the empty formation then reload your good one as soon as you are in the next area. This saves many precious seconds on each area. Unless your lag is really severe it should make the timed objective doable with no issues :)

@ Vingummi, I know about diminishing returns, but if you add up mediocre skills (some are decent if you want to be generous, none is great to be sure), lack of EPs, and lack of rare/epic equipment, you'll see that most of those crusaders are actually useless, and are very likely to always remain so. The only one of the first 4 I see as viable now is the healer, Gloria.

@ Teschio - Shadow Queen gives 300% dps nekkid (along with 50% gdps), if used in conjunction with Jason and correct positioning, which is not difficult at all on any formation I've tried so far. Your argument is invalid **insert Nicholas Cage pic here**

Shadow Queen's skill only works in certain formations. You need to have her in an "isolated" position, so she contacts 1-2 crusaders at most, and one of those needs to be your main DPSer, which severely limits her usefulness because this doesn't work well with other positional skills (for example, in World's Wake formation there is no way to have her, roboturkey and bubba buffing the same crusader in any efficient way). Not to mention the fact that she requires Jason for max efficiency, and Jason is not that useful, he occupies a slot that could be used for stronger buffers. She could be useful once you get at least full rares on her (and maybe 1-2 epics too), but until then, she is weaker than other buffers.

True. But of the 6 new crusaders, only 3 are usable, imho: gloria, shadow queen and blood mage. The exterminator is one of the worst crusaders in the whole game...