FHEL8 : here and kinda Meh!

Today along with introduction of another Secret District, ongoing confusion with Family Property, a limited time Mission to complete, we get some new FHEL, FHEL8 for lack of a better designation. There is a new Weapon, Vehicle, Henchman, and Animal.  We are missing an Armour.

WEAPONS	Att	Def	Loc	Adj
Chuck Pistol	82	102	War6	-1
Wintermute	48	101	FHEL8	0
ATR 7	47	100	FHEL7	+1

Newest Weapon is the Wintermute and according to chart above makes +1 adjustment to your overall Def scores from the previous Def weapon, the ATR 7 from FHEL7 and is -1 from the highest Def weapon which is the Chuck Pistol from War Tier6 (which might not mean much as most people are already on War Tier8 and have little chance to get more Chuck Pistols as drops).

VEHICLES	Att	Def	Loc	Adj
Mortis	82	107	War8	-7
Troller	42	100	FHEL8	0
Slipstream	44	78	FHEL5	+22
Reed Runner	65	99	FightClub	+1

The Troller offers a slight improvement as the last Def vehicle was the Slipstream in FHEL5 and is a +22 improvement BUT you could have bought loads of Reed Runner from the Fight Club in which case the Troller is only a +1 adjustment to your overall Def score.

HENCHMEN	Att	Def	Loc	Adj
Garbage Man	110	48	SE	-7
Traceur	103	45	FHEL8	0
Fellow Zombie	100	42	FHEL7	+3

The Traceur(or wanna-be parkour) give a +3 over the FHEL7 Fellow Zombie but still not higher than the Garbage Man that was dropping in that Henchmen Special Events back in Sept 2011.

ANIMALS	Att	Def	Loc	Adj
Ounce	104	48	FHEL8	0
Armadillo	101	77	War8	+3
Goblin Shark	100	46	FHEL7	+4

Lastly, the Ounce seems to offer the best of the bunch at +4 from previous FHEL7 Goblin Shark and even beats the highest War8 animal, the Armadillo at +3.

So as a group FHEL8, is kinda meh and will incrementally increase your MAS + MDS by smallish amounts especially moreso for those that have been hitting the Boss Fights hard.  So looks like I could probably max out on these in less than 2 weeks with little effort.  So how well will you do?